Whoa. Surfer Dude does History of Science. On TedTalks, like, seven years ago. Cosmic. And hey, the planet isn’t getting warmer, y’know.
I knew him when ...
It takes me a while to catch up with things, sometimes, which is why I have only just watched Jennifer 8 Lee’s stunning talk at Taste3, transmitted through TedTalks. This was magnificent, everything a presentation should be. Packed with information, brilliantly illustrated (I’d like to see all the s...
Eats Wombats, who seems to be avoiding my post on his name, has instead chosen to encourage me to blog Strange Things About This Country.1 I’m flattered, but there’s already quite enough blogging by foreigners on the quaint ways of Italy and they’re easy enough to find. Besides, once you’ve de...
Is First Bus the most pusillanimous company in the UK? Probably not, but it is up there.
A Christian bus driver has refused to drive a bus with an atheist slogan proclaiming “There’s probably no God”.
Ron Heather, from Southampton, Hampshire, responded with “shock” and “horror” at the messa...
I have a friend who identifies closely with wombats. Catching up on magazine reading, I wonder whether he knew it was an acronym for Waste Of Money, Brains And Time? Somehow, and given aspects of our shared past, I feel he must have.