How does one explain the Higgs boson to a layperson, a child, an idiot? Just use this handy guide to selective explanation.
The new Muppets movie has been accused of promoting a liberal agenda. But the Muppets have always been lefties at heart.
In the run-up to the royal nuptials, unreliable reports of global celebrations have been received.
Feeling lonely? Don’t have anyone to go out with? Then a friend-rental service could be just the thing you need.
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/ 9 February 2010
We have all had occasion to write on our hand, either because no paper was available or because we knew we’d probably forget the bit of Âpaper.
When she appeared in a New York court on Monday, author JK Rowling invoked a time-honoured, if largely mythical, notion of British reserve. ”I really don’t want to cry,” she said, ”because I’m British.” In this one utterance she managed to honour and breach the custom simultaneously. The whole point of the stiff upper lip is that you’re not supposed to let on that you even feel like crying. In fact, Rowling has a history of tearfulness.
Author Andrew Keen has a particular knack for phrasing his criticisms in a way that allows every blogger to feel personally slighted, writes Tim Dowling.
Like the title and the acknowledgements, the dedication is primarily a challenge faced by authors who have already secured both a publishing deal, writes Tim Dowling.
We all get angry sometimes. Some of us, no doubt, are angry right now. Some of us are angry for wholly legitimate reasons to do with a computer that has been temporarily inhabited by evil spirits, and some of us are just being irrational. And some of us, it seems, have anger as a disease.
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/ 22 November 2005
Torquay, on the south coast of England (and a prime British holiday resort), is surely one of the most inhospitable places on the planet. Not if you’re a penguin, though. For the black and white inhabitants of Living Coasts, Torquay’s harbourside zoo, the term "English riviera" holds no bleak tinge of irony even during the so-called "shoulder season".