The otherwise blameless Akbar Zib of the Pakistani diplomatic corps has been refused a post in Saudi Arabia, because his name translates in Arabic to "Mightiest Knob" or somesuch.  I can see why that would be difficult.  I have come across this...

A few days ago I wrote about the startling conclusions about horizontal versus vertical genetics, and the implications that this might have for our understanding of the kinds of evolution, and genetic information flow that might be possible.  In that...

Well, the face of the biggest budget deficit going into 2011 since the war, it is not surprising in the slightest that America has to make budget cuts.  Pity for the science nerds and space nuts amongst us is that one of them is the manned space...

The title of the post is what small brutish British children being brought up in their upper class nurseries and boarding schools would shout when presented with bacon.  The reason I am writing about that is that the Spaceship has been working with...

If you a regular reader, I posted about going to Germany and back on one tank of Diesel.  (It's all fun and excitement here in the Spaceship, I tell ya.)  In that I mentioned that they seemed to be knocking down lots of bridges over the A5...