Arlington Road has Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges in it; what’s not to like? The heavy-handedness and plethora of hints that all is not what it seems. That old saw “Just because you're paranoid …” gets a good working over, and the end is something of a surprise, in a movie-making industry addicted to...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.9 This week: 89.8.
Tuesday 20 February: Bah! A pox on working lunches, coffees (with cake) and teas (with biscuits). Whatever happened to that voice that used to tell me I didn’t need to nibble?
Medical doctors avoid the e-word when describing their research on the evolution of antibiotic resistance. But science writers are no better; whether they use the e-word depends on whether the original paper they are reporting used it.
A fascinating essay from Janis Antonovics and colleagues at...
Burned spoon, pack of bicarbonate of soda, pop bottle with a silver foil lid. A lovely slim little knife was there too, but I had already picked it up before I snapped the picture. I didn't need to call in CSI: Rome to know what had been going on. Drugs! No surprise, really; down on the wasteland...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.1 This week: 88.9
Tuesday 13 February: Bread news seems to have usurped food news as the “diet” continues on its dull and, for the time being ineffectual, way. Last week I did a no-knead sourdough, and it was a brick. Literally. More or less completely failed to rise. I...
