The Queen (R) and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, arrive at Kew Palace in Kew Gardens for a private family dinner to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday, April 21, 2006. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
What truly appalls me about the [lead photo]http://uk.news.yahoo.com/27052006/325/photo/quee...
Rebecca sends me to What's special about this number, a total delight. And the first entry, under √-1,1 reminds me that I meant to thank the BBC's In Our Time podcast on negative numbers, a few weeks back, for enlightening me about a road near where I live over in ScienceLand. Via. G. Cardano c...
Oh, the sweet sound of clashing cultures. Ventria Inc. is trying to make a drug that could help save the lives of children who contract diarrhoea, a major killer in the developing world. Good, right? Wrong, because they are making it by engineering a human gene into plants such as rice. And that h...
More, indeed more than you might possibly want, on the delights of asparagus.
Those who adore asparagus, it turns out, tend to be “dramatic, theatrical people who like to be the centre of attention,” says Hirsch. They're also “lively, enthusiastic, flirtatious, provocative and seductive,” wit...
I've seen some schlock in my time but never, ever have I sat through anything like the never-ending stream of western clichés that is Buffalo Girls with as much pleasure. There isn't a single stock scene or character missing, from the whore with (several) hearts of gold to the duplicitous schemin'...
