You’ve probably been wondering why you feel like your timing is always off. That’s because the law of time has been out of whack. Luckily the Galactic Research Institute has a plan - and a…

Uzbl follows the UNIX philosophy - “Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”

Can science create the ultimate David Bowie song? Psychologist Nick Troop has performed a psycholyrical analysis of David Bowie’s most successful songs, using that analysis to create what…

It’s become a cliche to say that our world is changing faster and faster, as we hurtle towards an ultra-advanced future. But it’s not true, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman told…

Some of humanity’s strangest foibles still defy explanation. But it is becoming clear that behaviours, like nose-picking or blushing, that seem frivolous at first glance often go to the heart of what…

Tired of the creaky entertainment machine churning out copy-cat stories of zombies, superheroes, apocalypses and cyborgs? Then you need to conjure new dreads and fantasies in the real world,…

THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday.

I’ve figured it out. I’ve figured it out. What? Everything. Why everything sucks. Here’s why. In the 1950s, late ’50s, early ’60s, a bunch of advertising guys got together on…

After Spider-Man 3, it was nice to see Sam Raimi go back to his roots with Drag Me to Hell.  But his return to smaller films won’t last long as he’s now signed to direct World of…

Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy…

Earlier this week, Brad Templeton wrote an essay explaining why Battlestar Galactica’s ending was the worst on-screen sci-fi ending of all time. Could Lost be headed down the same…

Imagine some kind of unholy combination of the worm scene in Galaxy of Terror, the Cremaster movies, Pink Floyd, the feminist art of Cindy Sherman, and that bean orgy in Tommy. Then…