Humor

Paddles At The Beachside

This is another of my poems for children of all ages. It is very fortunate for me that the grammar police have never been issued with tazers..... Paddles At The Beachside The rains is gone the sand are dry The sun is shone the bird is fly. The wavies flow ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 2 2013 - 3:08pm

Is Google On The Level?

Is Google On The Level? I have often complained about the way that Google search behaves.  For instance, try looking up the capacitance of a lead-acid battery.  Good luck with that- Google positively insists that you ought to want to search for capacity. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 3 2013 - 12:39pm

The Authentic Biography OF H2O

The Authentic Biography OF H2O as told exclusively to this author Thanks to its marvellous memory, water tells some tales of its adventures down through the ages. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 9 2013 - 4:35pm

Completely Objective Resolution Of The Who To Sacrifice Dilemma

The well-known moral dilemma about sacrificing a few to save many has now been answered by extraction of empirical data from conceivable parallel worlds via obvious-operators instantiated in neural networks that were tuned by evolutionary algorithms into ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 11 2013 - 12:03pm

The funniest thing I have read lately.

The funniest thing I have read lately. Ben Elton's new Britcom 'The Wright Way' has been panned by critics.  It is about a health and safety team in the fictitious borough of Baselricky. One review I read, by The Guardian's Charlie Bro ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 13 2013 - 1:24pm

The Mechanics Of Slithering

“Previous studies of slithering have rested on the assumption that snakes slither by pushing laterally against rocks and branches.” explain a joint research team from the Applied Mathematics Laboratory, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, of New Y ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - May 14 2013 - 1:15pm

Chinese Bionic Head Progress

There are currently a number of research teams worldwide working towards the implementation of bionic heads and faces which can attempt to express human emotions, however “… most of them can not express continuous changing expressions effectively, and the ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - May 23 2013 - 10:22am

Hot Coffee Enemas- The Dangers

Before continuing, please bear in mind that: “The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the US Department of the Army, the US Department of Defens ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - May 23 2013 - 1:43pm

Energy Harvesting- From Knees

“The modern drive towards mobility and wireless devices is motivating intensive research in energy harvesting technologies.” say two research fellows at Cranfield University in the UK, who are  currently examining the question – ‘Why not harvest energy fr ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - May 27 2013 - 11:13am

Ladies And Gentlemen (and Their Car-Parking Skills)

“The stereotype of women’s limited parking skills is deeply anchored in modern culture.” But has rarely been scientifically investigated, prompting Claudia Wolf, M.Sc. and Sebastian Ocklenburg M.Sc. and colleagues at the Fakultät für Psychologie, Institut ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - May 30 2013 - 10:58am