Live at the Witch Trials

I have mentioned before my weird obsessions with taxidermy , weird tourist destinations and tall dwarfs but I have not mentioned here my fi...

A/B testing is where you try an old way of doing things and a new way each with a sample of the users and see which one works better. It is...

Famine is not looking too great either. Pestilence and death are down but not nearly out. The recent riots in London had all sorts of peo...

How quickly are humans getting better? We tend to think technology is getting better or that humans augmented by technology are improving. N...

I saw this paper 'Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2009' with the intro 'In the wake of ...

When will we reach peak babies? In what year will the most children be born? I bet last night a shiny pint that we will reach peak babies in...

All my fantasy football attempts have the problem that I know nothing about football. So for example Berbatov is unlikely to do as well this...

So it turns out I was thick last post about picking the fantasy football team. As my friend Bren explained to me "you choose 11 playe...

Some friends challenged me to a game called fantasy "football" where you pretend to be a Russian billionaire. Not the bit where yo...

I love weird crap. I have loads of holiday photos of my wife looking bemused outside some odd tourist destination. Here is one of my wife ou...

Sports really annoys me. Particularly at the end when they get boring. When they know they have a minute to go in football they start kickin...

There are two very interesting passages in Shah's ' The Fever ' that suggest modeling of malaria can have an important role HIV-...

Can you do anything useful in a day? This is the premise of code day where computer programmers are invited to work with scientists for a da...

I have had a frankly morbid interest in taxidermy since I was a child. I particularly like bad taxidermy. My absolute favorite form of taxid...

I was watching Spongebob as usual last Saturday morning and I noticed how most of the characters were modeled on 70's rock musicians. El...

How much would you have to be paid to give up your mobile and your computer? How much is reading these pearls of wisdom, viewing pictures of...

Remembering is a creative process. We tend to think rote memorisation as a dull boring task. However instead we should think of it as "...

Take a company you have a problem with 1. Imagine you hate Ryanair. I do not btw they are just an example of a company this would work on. 2...

This week I was lucky enough to visit the Analog Computer Museum near Frankfurt. Bernd who owns and protects the collection I have known fo...

I am fascinated by how people think differently from each other. I think there are big differences in the fundamental methods people use to ...