Happy birthday, PB, and well done to Mike, Rob, and latterly all the header contributors who have made this site with visiting. Can't remember exactly when I came across the site, but it was early on… (View Post)

Phil Plait on the Bad Astronomy blog has a couple of really good pieces (you'll have to do a bit of searching, I can't remember the exact links) about how humans are really bad at estimating perspect… (View Post)

At the moment, only two signatures required (View Post)

Omega is a long o, as in pole. What the Greeks called a 'big o' i.e. o-mega. So it's pronounced with a long o. Omicron is a short o, as in pot. What the Greeks called a 'small o', i.e. o-micron. So i… (View Post)

Utterly appalling in its indifference to the effect on the woman, the impact on the child, and in how entirely unsurprising it is from her. (View Post)