A complete archive of the BBC's In Our Time presented by Melvyn Bragg

ai fucks you up, perhaps?

'...resetting the calendar so the equinox would come in late March needed a more drastic solution: 10 days would have to be skipped, erased, eradicated, obliterated, wiped out of existence.'

Warren Ellis is always going on about the grim meathook future - this is more like the grim old gits future.

via neilalien

'You are educated as a stupid android slave to the evil Word Animal Singularity Brotherhood.'

profile of who Robert Trivers who 'came up with the first Darwinian explanations for human cooperation, jealousy and our sense of justice that made genetic sense, and he showed how these arose from the same forces as act on all animals, from the pigeons

from Nature magazine