The Special Military Operation is over. War has begun. "Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia now considers the conflict a full-scale war against Ukraine and the Western countries supplyin… (View Post)

14! seconds ago was, I think, the year of the eleventh [Ancient] Olympic Games at which Leochares of Messenia won the stadion race (then the only event, a sprint of about 180m). In 736 BC. (View Post)

I would imagine that a pathologist has had a chance to do a detailed examination of the body by now and it would be unlikely they would still be pursuing a murder investigation if the fatal injuries … (View Post)

There's been a recent murder in Killarney where the main person of interest was on a flight to Istanbul before the body was discovered. With Widdecombe apparently being dead for 24 hours before … (View Post)

Ensuring that something is genuinely random is a lot harder than people think. For example, I once managed to develop a technique for flipping a (50p) coin with sufficient consistency (of spin rate a… (View Post)