Live at the Witch Trials

Thanks to everyone who read and commented this year. The most popular posts this year were Search Engine Deoptimization 16,000 Pageviews. M...

Books really are kind of magic aren't they? Here is the ones I read this year that changed the way I think and turned me into a differen...

This is a post where I do a back of the envelope estimate of when we'll see driverless cars , what will they do to taxi costs and what ...

Can you crowdsource disease eradictaion? I mentioned in this post on 203 0 that I expect Polio and Guinea worm to be eradicated by then. I...

Would we get more or less innovation without patents? The rose that holds patent no 20175 tells us how little we need patents. The plants ha...

I think it would be really cool if loads of science bloggers talked about the same thing on the same day. Beer bloggers have a monthly ...

There is an interesting proposal in the Irish Times Psychiatrist calls for lithium to be added to water A consultant psychiatrist last night...

I've always hated fireworks. They are a boring waste of gunpowder and sky . But I love parades. Particularly crap ones with donkeys and ...

I have no idea what will happen to the euro in the next month. And whatever happens will have big consequences. Yet I was willing to make pr...

Loads of brilliant technologies went mainstream this year. Some new technologies were created but I don't know enough about any of them ...

"All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there." Grange...

I've wondered for a while about how far away we could see the earth if we were using our current technology and we had our current light...

Population surge difficult to halt and almost impossible to reverse was published yesterday in the Irish times. It is also availible in blo...

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...