On "German measles and Spanish influenza"; those were a long time ago, when the naming was done not by international organisations, but by people like the media. In both cases, it was wrong… (View Post)

Just a reminder that the Apollo project was not a particularly popular project in 1960s America: "Consistently throughout the 1960s a majority of Americans did not believe Apollo was worth the c… (View Post)

Quite sensible when dealing with the likes of Trump and the mad dogs of the GOP. (View Post)

I'd stay off the drugs if I were you... (View Post)

Gym-based musclemen tend to be fairly pants at manual labour. The wrong muscle groups developed for the wrong tasks. They can be pretty awful with a shovel when down in a trench. (I do not mean '… (View Post)