I'm pretty certain that a super airport would just become a super headache. Here are my reasons why smaller (and more often) is better.

Another rant about a crazy warning message. This time, seen on the bottom of a box of magnetic chess.

The French are legendary for their bureaucracy, and they are proud of it: the French spend all their cash on fonctionnaires.

I found this great video by a professor at Nottingham University. He discusses the recent creation of Element 114, which has since been called Ununquadium, by accelerating and fusing Calcium with Plutonium.

I was bought a book called “An Utterly Impartial History of Britain” by John O’Farrell. It’s some 587 pages long and worried me greatly. But, one night I gave it a go and found that it was one of the hardest books to put down.

A report from the Policy Exchange suggests that Britain would need £434bn to overhaul its infrastructure in order to be competitive in today’s world.

About a month ago, the people next door (who had always been something of gardeners) had a man deliver a tree mulching machine. I thought nothing of it at the time, and just assumed that some pruning was being done and some tidying up. In fact, I looked forward to it – it would be nice to have a managed garden to look over.

I was messing with a rubber ring with my niece, when I noticed that, in addition to the usual European languages and Chinese, three different English languages were listed, probably for their different legal dialects.

“The Reg” tells us that the government has produced a five-thousand word report on how to use the web-service, Twitter. I am hoping that it’s a mistake: maybe the guy who obeyed ‘Can you go get me a longue weight?’ didn’t see this one coming either.

Why are we intelligent? I delve into paddle in this interesting conundrum.