The Somewhat Ambitious

I love, almost beyond my ability to describe it, the fact that there is an entire sub-genre of scientific endeavour devoted to feeding various animals psychotropic substances. Basically there is a group of scientists whose day to day job essentially involves them picking an animal and then deciding how they want to make it party. [...]

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Back in August Paul wrote a piece on Colony Collapse Disorder in Britain, a mysterious plague that is decimating bee populations across the globe and throwing into chaos our long term honey stocks. He later revealed to me in private that in truth he cared not a whit for the bees and was doing [...]

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In a piece of news that isn’t specifically nerdy, but that I feel very passionately about, Britain’s honeybee population has been decimated*, resulting in a national honey shortage. What will make sweet the Queen’s crumpets now? The crisis was raised by the British Beekepers Association (ladies men, all), who revealed that nearly one in three [...]

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