Despair

Nature Q&A on a scheme to produce affordable textbooks using wiki-style contributions

But long hair makes them safer. More evidence for John Adams' "risk thermostat"

But boys don't

I still remember that issue of OMNI fondly

"Quantum physics is not weird and incomprehensible because it describes something completely different from everyday reality. It is weird and incomprehensible precisely because it describes the world we see around us-past, present, and future."

Is the number 42 really the key to linking prime numbers and subatomic physics?

Might be rain there yet

"Lichens either "blast" out algae and fungi to form new colonies or form surface "pegs" which are broken off and spread by animals."

Note to self: now you have no excuse

MyMP3 lives again! but perhaps its time has passed. Also: uploading my music collection would take for.ev.er

New word: taphonomy