In between looking for a job and a place to live, I’ve been trying to dip my toe into Australian music. If you look at my recent Blip.fm stream you’ll see some of the results of that dipping: a playlist of alternating older and newer Aussie rock...

It seems Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top’s guitarist, likes being a tourist, and took the tube to Wembley before the band’s big gig last week. In true London fashion, the line he wanted to take was down, and he had to detour. He still beat his bandmates to the...

From ScienceDaily: Two University of Rhode Island associate professors, biophysicists Yana Reshetnyak and Oleg Andreev, have discovered a technology that can detect cancerous tumors and deliver treatment to them without the harming the healthy cells...

Pioneering metal guitarist Tony Iommi owes at least part of the Black Sabbath sound to the fact that he lost two fingertips in an industrial accident when he was a teenager. Rather than give up playing guitar he fashioned artificial plastic- later...

Alright, I’m here in Sydney, and getting close to normal again. What better way to regain normality than regular blogging again? The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia’s national science agency. They...