Would your life without Sciforums be as bad as all that? If you feel all your energy disappearing over the horizon with its arse on fire and never...
There was a similar thread recently called "If Sci died, where would you go?" Taken together, no-smoke-without-firers would draw the conclusion Sci's...
On the smart sort of night out that usually involves ironing beforehand. Men's shirts are curious, as manufacturers have contrived to put every...
Beware of any enterprise that requires new clothing, it's said. But Prince William and Kate Middleton have decided to wed anyway, and let's hope this...
All history is exaggeration. Well, much of it. :) Certainly the older stuff. Apparently someone called Pheidippides ran the 150 miles from Athens...
Technically, Gavin Henson uses fake tan. By the bucket load. Don't ask me how I know. :)
We're still a bit suspicious of people with perfect-looking teeth, as though they're going to sell you something. To achieve teeth which are far...
"Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank And Shook The Financial World". A good title because, though apparently arrogant and naive, it's the...
His even more extreme first draft didn't quite scan.
NASA's objective is to get to Mars before Tesco does.
There are wider issues, eg financial, ethical, government interest, agendas. A key question is responsibility and control. The very nature of homo...
There is a sock orphanage where sad little socks live until their partner can be found. Their partner may never be found. That's because the washing...
Whenever you get the feeling that humans are at the top of the evolutionary tree, observe them changing a double duvet cover. Warning signs that...
Except that "I know that I know nothing" is a contradiction in terms.
Literary snobs are more tiresome than film buffs (or 'cineastes' as they like to be called) or musical snobs. Somehow books force you to plod on;...
"The smartest man in history". If there's merit in the saying "Art is I, science is we", true individual genius may lie more in the arts. By way of a...
Tonight on prime-time British television is the first of a new three-part series, "Stephen Hawking's Universe".
In his new book Hawking asserts that "philosophy is dead".
Important things I know are things which the people with whom I bandy are not likely to know.
Emperor Joseph II: Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. There are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect....
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