It is obvious that men and women are completely different. For instance, women love dressing up and reading horoscopes, and men love drin...

You know that thing where really really smart people can be clueless about something really really obvious to everyone else? Sure you do. We...

When I was a kid crickets used to stop chirping if you stomped your foot nearby. I know this because I remember it vividly, and as we a...

There are great inventions that changed the world : things like paper, refrigeration, the internal combustion engine, the intern...

Last year I read the fantastic 'Trick or Treatment' , by doctor and researcher Edzard Ernst and science writer Simon Singh. It is a ...

My dad just moved house and cleared out his stuff, and I was very happy to be given this relic from my childhood, now yellowed and cracked l...

Here's a fun activity that is cheap and easy to do, and the only call on your planning skills is to make the jelly ahead of time. My k...

If you have ever watched a video of kids being given the marshmallow test and had the feeling your kid would not pass, you're not alone....

Science and religion. 'And' - not 'versus'. No need. As Julian Burnside tweeted this week: #qanda Science and Religion...

"Sugar and spice and everything nice, That's what little girls are made of.   Snips of snails and puppy dog tails, That...

One of my favourite science bloggers on Twitter, Christie Wilcox ("NerdyChristie") , retweeted a story from Scientific American la...

Yesterday here in Melbourne town we had some very wild windy weather. Winds up to 140km/hr hit much of the state causing havoc . Photo o...

About time I lived up to my blog description and put some "science" up. There are so many excellent science blogs out there, writ...

...and while on the subject of myths, does anyone (presumably my age - Gen X - and older) remember this one? "You can't go swimmin...

If you want to see a fun, sexy movie see Limitless. I loved it. Because damn, that Bradley Cooper can wear a suit. But also, because the sto...

What with natural disasters, climate change, the end of carbon, terrorism, wars, the global financial crisis, and the frightening rise of vi...

Don't you love it when you have a really good conversation with your kids about Life, The Universe and Everything? My kids are five and...

More on a topic I love, correlation vs causation . Michael Agger from Slate Magazine  has been soliciting ideas for how to use data  from ...

Okay, so this is a blog quoting a blog quoting another blog, but I don't want to make it look like I found this item all by myself. This...

When I started this blog I was intending to spend more time "researching" (i.e., web-surfing) varied questions and phenomena in th...