Not true, remember the news from Italy at the beginning. Or so it seemed. Many cases were asymptomatic, which made it that much more difficult to control the spread. (View Post)

The nature of exponential maths ... for some reason I think of an Oxford chemist ... (View Post)

HYpOthermia, I think? HypERthermia is when they get too hot ... James Hogg's writing on sheep in a snowstorm is memorable - but perhaps not the reading to recommend to you just now. (View Post)

Enshittification in action. "Once upon a time, dearest Best Beloved, there were only four television channels. And every last one of them was free, once one had paid one's licence into the Post … (View Post)

Give the yowes a hug from me, they'll need it. North Riding seems to be catching it today. (View Post)