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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]