The Onion have the story.

"The latest experiment at CERN went ahead despite warnings by a group called Heavy Ion Alert that it could trigger a catastrophic chain reaction that might destroy the Earth.
LHC scientists say the claim is nonsense" - full article

So, there's a group of people who believe that a group of scientists are on the brink of destroying the planet ( Read more... )

Apparently the best treatment for runners knee is to not run for a few weeks.

Back to pumping iron at the gym then I guess.

I miss having an accessible swimming pool.

Good test for Milliband here, and a chance to decisively break with some of the nastier aspects of fag-end New Labour. Clearly Woolas has got to be thrown out of the party by whatever disciplinary mechanism exists for doing that. And if that's done quickly and decisively, we get a Lib-Lab by election, the result of which may well terrify the Lib

Greece announces plan to enhance the efficiency of 1 million buildings, about a quarter of the country's total building stock. Sounds like exactly the kind of thing governments should be doing at times of economic stress.

No link, as so far all the coverage is in Greek. GP Greece tell me a lot of the policies look oddly familiar.

Why did nobody tell me the BBC had let Mark E Smith read the football scores?

They should do this every week with different iconic counter cultural figures, or maybe celebrity football fans. But I know which one would work best...

A recent poll of Belgium looked at the view of people either living near windmills or in areas where windmill's are proposed. 86% were in favour of wind energy and only 4% concerned or opposed. And the longer you've been living with wind farms, the more positive you feel about them ( Read more... )

Every now and then, someone notices what Greenpeace does. This is one of the best summaries of a campaign by an outside party I've seen.

Just a shame their nice graphic thing isn't displaying properly.

Deutsche Bank have just published a paper addressing the arguments of climate sceptics, I've glanced through the executive summary and it looks clear and well argued.

If you're investing in long term capital projects you need to have a functional knowledge of climate change, and Deutsche Bank's decision to publish this report suggests that they ( Read more... )

We're into week three of our building project. In week 0 we moved out of the first floor, shifting all the beds into the attic. To our pleasant surprise Lisa was completely unphased by this. (Perhaps because she gets to sleep in my shocking pink study ( Read more... )