As many students do, I spent a summer abroad doing a charity thing. Don't get me wrong, this was no posh-boy's year out, I raised p...

[The stats on this blog show the majority of my readers are in the USA, so for UK readers this post may seem to explain the obvious at time...

Right, time to move away from the beer and back to the science - but I'm going to ease myself into it with a post on pub-based science....

Brewing is huge in Scotland, both in terms of popularity and the sheer number of breweries producing some truly wonderful beers. We're ...

(Random rambling brought on by reading Why Would A Fundamentalist Christian Become An Atheist ) OK, so I'm an atheist.  But I hesitat...

Physics exists on a spectrum, from the incredibly rigorous, through the vague and "hand-wavy" to the borderline crackpot - and th...

Our topic this evening, ladies, gentlemen and sleeper agents, is the world of government monitoring of their citizens. There's clearl...