Jul 28, 2011
UPDATE: 2012-01-20 Reader “correcto” asserted that this is definitely not an octopus. In my original post I did say it was a squid, but admitted to being suspicious of mentions of it being octopus based on a few anatomy shots, which persuaded me otherwise. However, I now have a video that shows squid being prepared and it’s more obvious that it’s not an octopus.
It’s still rather grotesque, but I take …
Jul 25, 2011
Remember that speech that led to that Baz Luhrmann hit, “Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen“? It was good advice and still is. Here, my friend Kat Arney, blogger, broadcaster, cancer expert and harpist, explains the ins and outs of sun protection. It perhaps should also be mentioned that you can burn on cloudy summer days, especially if it’s windy and you’re near water, …
Higgs glimpse? – Lots of hype going on around the possibility of having spotted a glimpse of the Higgs boson that, in theory, endows matter with mass. Of course, despite the press conferences and hype, the physicists are still stressing that it is far too early to know whether the signals they have are due to the elusive particle or nothing more than statistical fluctuations, flaws in their …
