A video instruction manual for making a hand-crafted book. I hope someone makes the equivalent video for production of the Kindle...

IT IS A HOAX They say that "theoretically" the bumble bee cannot fly, but in reality it is commonly airborne. They also say that theoretically humans cannot fly by flapping artificial wings...but in reality is it possible? The implication is that simply flapping is enough to get you airborne, but birds don't just flap their wings haphazardly like Jarno Smeets is doing in this video, they have a controlled pattern that exploits the Bernouilli effect to lower the air pressure above the wing and reduce it below ... Read on...

Check out the geekiest dance moves ever - "Do the tan!" (or the sin, cosine, square root, modulo, reciprocal, etc.) This first made an appearance almost a year ago, but is doing the rounds again on Facebook and elsewhere and it made me giggle, almost, so it's worth another display: Source: http://thinktosuccess.tumblr.com/post/4576676132/beautiful-dance-moves-involves-maths

A few days ago, I suggested we have a "BS" abbreviation on Twitter. It would be like the RT (retweet), DM (direct message), HT (hat tip) etc that we all know and love, but it would, of course be shorthand for referring to bovine faeces and could be associated with links to disinformation, spurious statistical studies and pseudoscience unsupported by proper evidence, for instance. One area that is ripe for the BS tag is so-called "Integrative Medicine". This is the supposed holistic combination alternative medicine with ... Read on...

Forget achievement, it's just greed in a socially acceptable form. You could spend your whole life worrying about how healthy you are, how interesting and how successful (whatever that means). As you may know, there's a whole industry depending on our insecurities and our aspirations selling us products for self improvement, whether books, lectures or supplements, whatever. But, you could instead simply focus on finding what you love, doing that and letting the success and self improvement come along for the ride. After all, writers write not ... Read on...