Haven't posted many pictures lately. What can I say; scanning and processing takes time and I haven't been happy with my results lat...

Time for the (incredibly repressive ) Olympics again, this time with an unusually suggestive logo. Events go live from early evening and on...

A note about a retracted nature paper (via Massimo Pigliucci ) got me thinking: Bentham Science accepts computer generated hoax paper for ...

I posted this on Google+ but I figure it fits here as well: Times Higher Education university ranking has been released , with an interes...

You know how in some circus clown acts, the act sort of ends by mayhem breaking out, with everybody running madly around, honking horns, t...

Google I/O is underway, and they've just announced their long-expected 7" Nexus tablet . Short summary: Is such a small tablet usef...

Japan is about to prohibit the sale of sliced raw liver at restaurants, after a few food poisoning incidents at cheap chain pubs where raw ...