A delightful tribute to The Rockford Files. A time, a place, and a PI always worth hanging out with. defector.com/the-rockford...

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

A reminder that science education is a mandated part of NASA's remit.

"Spherical bastard" is a term that describes far too many people in public life today. It should be more widely in use.

Here’s Fritz demonstrating his spherical bastard idea.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

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Looking forward to this. If only Roger Allam was playing a villain in it, eh, @eaterofsun.bsky.social?

Agreed that Wilton's is well worth the visit. I wrote about it's restoration - gulp- a decade ago: www.theengineer.co.uk/content/in-d...

I'd forgotten that Prince died the day after Victoria Wood. 2016 was brutal.

Do you live in the UK? Are you registered to vote in next month's elections? If not, you'd better get a move on, as tomorrow is the last day you can register. Fortunately, it's easy to do online. www.gov.uk/register-to-... 🗳️

I've thought for years that sales of fireworks to the general public should be banned. They're never much cop anyway, and the potential for harm is enormous.

Bad idea, even if it weren't Coldplay.

A good summary of arch-building and Trumpisn idiocy.

Ah, it’s actually up already:

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I saw C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanmhauser Gate. All these moments will fade in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

I wonder why people who profess to be horrified by the practice aren’t shouting their delight from the rooftops…

This is an important study and it is tough to recruit for because of the niche. Pls share if you can! Looking for #autistic adults with experience of #catatonia: community.autism.org.uk/f/adults-on-...

Emailed my MP, who's on the "not-signed-yet" list. Now we wait.

It might just be because he's called Olly, but this really feels like it's out of The Thick of It.

@berryh.bsky.social Your next posh outfit.

My local MP - Calvin Bailey - is involved with this. Will watch with interest. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good point. I had no idea about this, and the Guardian article on this doesn't mention it either.

Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" is one of the best plays involving science to have ever graced the stage. Chris Sinclair catches up with Frayn about a new revivial of the play at Hampstead Theatre in London. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/michael-fr...

Thanks to David Banks at the other place, who first alerted me to Ian Banks' reference to this face in his novel Transition, in which a character posits that if aliens exist on Earth, we'd find them watching an eclipse.

Artemis II only completed its mission thanks to the European Space Agency, which supplied the service module that kept the crew alive and incorporated its propulsion. I spoke to Sian Cleaver, programme manager at ESA: www.imeche.org/news/profess...

Gently remixed/re-edited the piece from earlier this week about Artemis II to run as a print leader in @economist.com Gift link www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Readers of @greatdismal.bsky.social's Jackpot novels might recognise Lowbeer's piece of kit.

Stumbled across the Golden Voyage of Sinbad on TV. Tom Baker in brownface, playing an evil Arab magician. You wouldn't get that these days, mostly because he's 91.

If the media were even remotely liberal every story would mention that the nuclear deal Obama cut was working extremely well before Trump withdrew from it out of spite.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

No kings. No queens. No going back. Tonight: it's the start of the new mini series LUCY WORSLEY INVESTIGATES THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION! 📺 On PBS Tell me: are you a patriot or a loyalist? www.pbs.org/about/about-...

My feelings exactly... bsky.app/profile/grao...

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

This is excellent. I choose not to use AI for my writing, but Naomi's piece reminds me that I'm in no position then to make uninformed judgements about its potential.

My son was marvelling last night how a photograph could be taken in and sent from space and he could download it and check what the camera settings were on his tablet. It really is remarkable!

Tediously predictable that the far-right would be all over this meaningliess bullshit.

It is now impossible to watch KitKat ads without smirking.

and they say there’s no good news

He keeps talking about Britain's "old, small" aircraft carriers. Has nobody told him our carriers are (a) not that much smaller than the US ones and (b) newer? HMS Prince of Wales entered service in 2018.

I hope Gene Kranz watched the launch yesterday in his favourite comfy chair and with his choice of beverage.

A few people have replied to my Artemis posts with links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon." Here's a story from Space.com about Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, currently en route to fly around the Moon, and his connection to that piece. www.space.com/space-explor...

I wrote this piece about Artemis and the Orion spacecraft in my previous life as features editor of The Engineer: www.theengineer.co.uk/content/in-d...

He's doing an address to the nation during the First Seder of Passover. Huge signal as to what this government thinks of Judaism. Don't ever let them go on about "Judeo-Christian" values. Because this is a slap in the face on that first part.

Apple is 50 years old tomorrow. Today I have a new piece on Six Colors talking about the time 38 years ago when I first encountered a Mac, and how it changed my life: sixcolors.com/post/2026/03...

Comic book artist search post: Looking for a Black British artist, preferably from the West Midlands (not essential but would be a big plus), who has a naturalistic style and comfortable with slice of life drama/comedy. If they're familiar with the 1980s and 90s, that's a big plus, too.

Interesting idea, but it ain't gonna happen: no-one's going to sign off putting a nuclear electromagnet into space. www.newscientist.com/article/2520...

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