Purpose, shmurpose. I'm just going to enjoy them.

An article in the Boston Globe reviews a new book on the (evolutionary) purpose of the female orgasm. Bottom line: it ain’t got one. I seem to recall having read similar comments before. Now where was that? Oh yes, I remember. I wrote them....

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... when you're online no one knows if you're an outlaw.

I'm pretty amazed that in the hoohah about Michelle Delio, the latest reporter whose sources couldn't be stood up, nobody seems to have picked up on the above quote, which I found in her Wired biog.¹ Presumably she wrote that herse...

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Francis Crick, who died on 28 July at the age of 88, was trained as a physicist but became arguably the most influential biologist of the twentieth century. His great curiosity was coupled to highly original thinking; through force of intellect he obtained answers to many fundamental problems. In...

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About eight years ago you plant a wisteria to scramble up the side of the new extension to the cottage. It is a tiny slip of a thing. People tell you, "But it'll be seven years before it blooms". And you think "Yeah, so what, I'm not going anywhere". Last year it has, what, two or three flowers. The...

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I’ve been spending a little time recently playing with and trying to organize my approach to putting my photos on the web. (Driven purely by ego.) I’ve now got two ways of doing this, three if you count the fact that I sometimes post one here. One is a photoblog, powered by PixelPost. The idea the...

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