I'll be interested to see if the Ig Nobels give up, like the Darwin awards did with the covid era and the anti-vaxxers. Sometimes it is just nice to have the intellectual benefit of such things … (View Post)

The big estates are still there, of course. Tweed and Purdeys and flies. Could they really end up a relict biota, the political equivalent of the alpine flora of Ben Lawers? (View Post)

Doesn't surprise me. Lots of retirees. But not much in the way of rundown manufacturing towns or seaside resorts, though some of the old wool burghs have their moments. I'd be very interest… (View Post)

For a start, bioluminescence (animals glowing) is useful to know about, because you can make up systems that can be used for detecting specific chemicals rapidly. And different groups glow in the dar… (View Post)

And the road authority bought up all the obvious website names for protests months in advance ... Isn't that a toll motorway, too? Nice little earner for someone, if privatised. (View Post)