Well, I’m kind of interested in science, but I wish scientists would do more to explain stuff. A common complaint, perhaps, but how valid is it? In reality, many scientists bend backwards over their fume cupboards to try and get their message across. But hardly …
“Under the sea, there’ll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans.” When Homer J. Simpson first uttered these immortal words he was dreaming of a place of make-believe. But one day we might just be able to join him in his little ethereal world, aboard a …
Two major exhibitions close this weekend, each devoted to a major English artist but from different ages. The Dulwich Picture Gallery has been hosting a survey of the early career of the darling of Catholic middle class England: Graham Sutherland. The blurb reads “Like its …
The cricket season is pretty much over and winter will soon to be sending a nasty chill around your nether regions. That means no more staggering through Regents Park, pint in hand, watching the cricket, dressed in shorts and not much else until the beginning …
We mentioned Danny Boyle’s new Sci Fi movie a while back after chatting to him at Raindance East, but we now have a press release stating that principle photography on the now Untitled Sunshine Project has just begun. It also reveals some pretty interesting casting …
Ah, the Royal Institution. Not a latter-day Bedlam for the blue of blood, but one of London’s foremost scientific centres of excellence. It was here that a certain Mr Faraday cobbled together the first electric generator and changed the world forever. The venerable organisation has …
Oh dear, Craig, you’re out on your arse! The Londonist dungeon rang with shouts of glee as your eviction was announced, you wobbly-lipped sex pest. Managing a pitiful 4.1% of the vote, it really is a case of “Whatever, minger”. Sod off back to East …
London is once again leading the way when it comes to advances in science with boffins at Imperial College making a breakthrough in the field of making people want to eat less. A small study had 26 people injected with the hormone oxyntomodulin, which is …
So Orlaith the weepy pixie is still in, and Citizen Science, man of the future, is out. Only half a percent difference, apparently. Well, whatever. Fuck you, Great British Big Brother voting public, fuck you. Was it bad thetans that made you vote against Science-tology? …
What we need right now is something to take us back to a time when explosions were fun and the men that carried them out were rocket scientists and occultists. We first got interested in reading the book Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket …
Londonist busies itself with plenty of art, music, film and theatre trips, but rarely do we venture into the world of science. To correct this oversight we strode purposefully into the marbled halls of the Royal Society last night for its annual Summer Science Exhibition. …
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