Sitting here in a hotel in Cairo, which is enough to focus anyone's mind, recovering from the effects of trying to personally endanger the world's entire Shish Kebab population, whilst sitting in an agreeable restaurant overlooking the Nile.  I...

Blogging light for this week, as I am in Cairo. It's totally bonkers, really just one of the most amazing cities I have visited, really quite different to anything else, and the taxi drivers make the "go to lightspeed" scenes in SciFi movies look like...

A chap called Roy Prol has done an animation that shows what the Earth would be like if it had a ring system similar to Saturn's.  Very interesting little imagined scenario, and set to supernally beautiful music. 

Didn't know whether to file this one under Environment, Tin Foil Hat, or World Economy, as it has elements of all three.   The Guardian, a very pro-green paper on the whole, has the story of a draft doing the rounds behind the scenes in Copenhagen,...

Lovely interview in the Guardian, or at least extract of the autobiography of Oliver Postgate, the man behind Smallfilms, creator of such greats as Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, and my all time favourite from Childhood, the Clangers. The clangers didn't...