Not So Freezer

Freezers are generally at their best with the door tightly closed; most experts seem to be in agreement on this. However, there's two undeniable benefits of accidentally leaving the freezer door open for half a day:

• You finally get to throw away all that old food you were never going to eat anyway, and you get to really clean up inside;


• Instead of the usual fish and rice, dinner becomes an improvised buffet of all the frozen delicacies - smoked salmon, marinated octopus - you were saving for later.

Frozen assets

Hamster Cells

I'm being busy at work with paper deadlines and holidays coming up - so of course I just spent the last half an hour reading various science blogs instead of doing anything actually useful. And this lead - through the usual tortuous chain of links - to a wonderful, brief, article by a scientist accidentally injecting himself with Hamster Cells. Not the first choice as superpower sources go, I guess, but intriguing.