Stephen Fry: The Church is very loose on moral evils, because, although they try to accuse people like me, who believe in empiricism and the Enlightenment, of what they call 'moral relativism,' as if it's some appalling sin, where what it actually...

Z machine (via Wikipedia) The Z-Machne is located at Albuquerque, New Mexico and is operated by Sandia National Laboratories. It is an X-ray generator used to amongst other things generate data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons. Some...

1.18 TeV !: The LHC has broken an 8-year record by accelerating protons to 1.18 tera-electronvolts. The guys in the lab coats running the LHC hope to eventually get the system up to about 7 TeV. The previous record was 0.98TeV at Fermilab’s...

Swiss vote to ban minarets: Switzerland, the European country that launders drug money and waited until 1971 to give women the vote, will now ban the building of any new minarets on Mosques in the country. Bans are not in place for the architectural...

Dhanna Ram’s tribute moustache  (via Australian Broadcasting Corporation) As Movember draws to a close we can now announce the winner …