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"Pound as in the pounding of these zammoths' feet?" "What zammoths? The ones to our right?" "The ones I'm p...

Larry Gonick's "Cartoon History of the Universe" is always relevant.     It's good to state at the outset that the reason...

  No, not Lembit Öpik. He's just here to introduce the real winner – and, for all I know, only candidate – Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli. Dr. Igor...

 I finally managed to catch my friend Maude's show The Webcamming Chronicles tonight at the Cockpit – tickets for the second showing on...

     "Yeah, I'll be evil, I'll be the Bond villain." I had totally forgotten about Martin Shkreli! Do you remember Martin...

   O HOU, everyone! Happy First of Leo ! Let's all celebrate One Humanity, One Unity – but not necessarily in that order – with Asgardi...

 For April the First, my favourite accidental physicists "The Corridor Crew" loose their visual-effects-dissecting acumen on the ...

 My friend Phil asked that, in the flesh. I bumped into him this evening, sharing beers with three more friends by the boating lake; one adv...

 I've just rewatched this video to confirm that Richard Herring's interview here with Brian Blessed may be the greatest one-man show...

Parsons, as painted by Marjorie Cameron    Having pooh-poohed Hélène Smith's Space Seances in the last post, this afternoon I learnt – ...

  "Palais martiens" (Martian palaces) by Hélène Smith     This is a view of the surface of Mars, as recorded by Catherine-Elise Mü...

 Modified dust. It's why the statement "no two showflakes are alike" exercises our imagination more than, say, "no two d...

 SPOILERS: The answer's underground, and in bits, because fifty million years or so ago the Arctic was a swamp! Did elephants have ant...

A shelf the size of France.    Today was spent finally catching up with Sarah Airress' engrossing account, over more than a year's w...

  Sort of spoilers ahead for Soul .  "I-stroke-we have been given many names..." Twitter's just reminded me, it was four years...

One of the notebooks I didn't post in September .   Last one for today. I'd always wanted to be prove useful to a museum, so part...

 "I felt very bad that at the end the Wookie didn't get a medal. All the people got a medal and the Wookie, who'd been in there...

  It's lovely seeing light through a blanket of mist, someone once tweeted, although not all light makes it through, of course; that...

 Another quiz and another post from The Concise Home Doctor (date of publication still unknown). Here are ten more illustrations, each with...