I f you are short of amusement this morning, be sure to check out the spectacle of a Neuroscience PHD student with a BA in Philosophy to his...

Near a mountain called Nulo there live men whose feet are turned backwards and have eight toes on each foot. Megasthenes writes that on diff...

" Its length, he said, was at least seven feet ; its girth approximately that of an apple tree ; it had a head like a cat's, but no...

God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science is now being sent out by Amazon.co.uk . It will hit ...

O ne of the more curious works of recent times was a book called ‘The Singularity is Near ’ by the futurist Ray Kurzweil . In it Kurzweil cl...

D uring the past couple of weeks I have been reading up on the 'continuity vs catastrophe' debate concerning the fall of the Weste...

A week ago, scientists noticed a black spot on Jupiter. Apparently the gas giant was struck by a sizable asteroid. CosmicLog has the details...

‘Struggle, war and not peace is the inescapable law of life. Species struggle against other species, varieties against varieties and within ...

P hysics world has recently released a couple of interesting articles from sometime adversaries Lee Smolin and Leonard Susskind . Susskind’...

I came back home late from the theatre last night ( Ph è dre at the National Theatre with Helen Mirren – tragic and gory) to find that the ...