london Thirty years of restaurants Last night I went the the Jazz club in the basement of Pizza Express at 10 Dean St. I was surprised. I'd always known there was a jazz club there but I had always imagined that the jazz was something of an after-thought; a cynical marketing wheeze mainly
psycho What on earth are you doing? "Caspar, what on earth are you doing?" Goodness knows I've heard that phrase often enough. Well finally I have an answer of kinds: http://www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/people/caspar
science The Humble Bee http://www.boingboing.net...moment_of_.html Boing Boing So is a bumble bee a bee that bumbles or is she just a bumblebee? And what about beer bees?
images Hippoes in the dining room http://jalopyjunktown.com...service_14.html Click on the link above to get to Mr. Jalopy's wise comments on a collector's eccentric and elaborate scheme to obtain a 144 piece hippo themed dinner service. In 2003, [Richard Baron Cohen] met a ceramics scholar for lunch and
quotes marvels and mysteries 'The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is - marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state. No, I am too firm in my consciousness of
science Poplar genes are populous.. http://www.eurekalert.org...i-pdc091306.php EurekAlert Just to remind you, the current best estimate is that humans have 24,000 genes.
psycho Knitted Brain with zippered corpus callosum http://harbaugh.uoregon.edu/Brain/ Wonderful knitted model of the brain with false colour yarning and convenient reversible callosotomy zipper. Hosted at the what is probably the world's only Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art
good Fear and Loathing in the Royal Festival Hall rarely has the bookclub agreed so unanimously about a book and still found things to say about it. whenever we liked something in the past we've done the round of - i liked it - me too - good story - i liked the bit where they drink
bad on the blink i'm meant to be writing an 1000 word annual review but in classic displacement functioning, i've started moving my website to a new host.. so this page may blink out of existence at any moment.. in which case you will not be able to read this.
images YouTube - The Simpsons vs Star Trek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkTpUxh8Vxc Being a miserable self-important sod, I rarely share internet memes but for this joyfulness I will make an exception. A shambolically blurry but deceptively well edited video of a giddy guy performing his own blenderization of the Simpsons and Star Trek themes on
words The Vagueries of categories http://www.cyberchimp.co.uk/papers/fourhands.htm In its distant pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the emperor; (b) embalmed ones; (c) those that are trained; (d) suckling pigs; (e) mermaids; (f) fabulous ones; (g) stray dogs; (h) those that are
psycho Look, it's completely safe. My colleagues fired laser beams through my head yesterday and here i am to tell the tale.. with very little observable impairment.
words book - science and fiction just read the essential difference by simon baron cohen -- going on about the testosterone fuelled differences in male and female cognitive dispositions.. men on average are more systematic, women are more empathic.. (and how autism is instance of an 'extreme male brain' high syst + low emp) not
psycho baby brain lasers http://www.sheddinglight.org.uk/ We do a bit of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) in our basement but the machine doesn't look anywhere near as cool as this.. Basically it works by firing laser beams through the baby's head and seeing what comes out the other
bad By George, a curious DVD extra feature For reasons lost in the haze of alcohol, i recently purchased the children's movie Curious George from a very smiley man i met in my local fried chicken shop. It was a dreadful pirate copy of an averagely bad film but an unexpected bonus saved the day. We
words Cas on a hot town roof Earlier today I was sitting on the roof of my flat in my pants reading the latest Haruki Murakami. Kafka on the Shore is a typically strange tale superficially about a dull child who runs away to from home to join a library. I could not get very far into
