I really hope the answer’s yes.

‘Working overtime doesn't increase your output. It makes you stupid.’

‘[…] leads us to postulate a mechanism whereby the victim is afflicted by the expansion of colonic gas at the decreased atmospheric pressure of high altitude.’ I’ve always wondered about whether this happens in aeroplanes.

Cereal and the Gulf Stream, apparently.

Bunnie Huang reverse engineers H1N1. ‘[T]he virus does the equivalent of self-modifying code to create two proteins out of a single gene in some places’

Blog about avian and swine flu that I’ve been following on and off for a few years. A good antidote to uninformed panic.

Excellent piece on the Naturalistic Fallacy.

Apart from the obvious benefits for reconstructive surgery, I can’t wait to see what kind of ideas the transhuman/bodmod vanguards come up with to use this technology.

Dispute over the Flores hominid bones. I didn’t realise that ‘cretin’ was a scientific term.

Very smart.

Apropos a pub conversation the other night in which I was defending female comedians.

Hybrid speciation works in animals, too.