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John Connolly’s The Burning Soul 21 Jul 2012 | 02:13 am
(Author: Laura Hyde) Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award short-list: ‘The Burning Soul,’ by John Connolly. Randall Haight killed and raped a child when he was fourteen. Assuming a ...
Sharp Eye on a Distant Hunger Game: Telescope Network’s Quasar Milestone 20 Jul 2012 | 08:14 pm
(Author: Daniel Zalec) It can be difficult to comprehend the sheer savagery witnessed in the most extreme regions of the universe. Striking evidence of such violence comes in the form of quasars, the...
Chris Brookmyre’s Where The Bodies Are Buried 13 Jul 2012 | 11:43 pm
(Author: Laura Hyde) Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award short-list: Where The Bodies Are Buried, by Chris Brockmyre. Self-conscious Jasmine Sharp has never been cut out to be a pr...
HMRC Seeking to Punish the Crime of Accountability 13 Jul 2012 | 01:06 am
(Credit: Peter Scholey / Alamy) (Author: SE Ali) If HMRC can claim confidentiality to avoid answering MPs’ questions about its tax settlements with corporate executives; if politicians are not inter...
Potential Cure for Tinnitus 12 Jul 2012 | 11:10 am
(Author: Jacqueline Guerrero) When suffering from Tinnitus, a hearing disorder marked by symptoms including ringing of the ears, buzzing sounds, headaches, and imbalance from disruption of equilibriu...
S.J. Bolton’s Now You See Me 12 Jul 2012 | 10:59 am
(Author: Laura Hyde) Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award shortlist: Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton. What would you do if you were threatened by an ripper copycat and then made bait ...
On Curious Shoulders: Mars Rover Carries the Weight of the Future 9 Jul 2012 | 05:30 am
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover (Credit: NASA) (Author: Daniel Zalec) JPL’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission has entered “approach phase,” according to Mission Manager Arthur...
5 Broken Cameras [Cinema Review] 30 Jun 2012 | 08:10 pm
Co-director Emad Burnat (Author: SE Ali) There are people out there paying the ultimate price for our privileges. Sometimes documentaries remind us of the peoples flattened beneath our weight. The r...
BBC: ‘Negotiate’ Means the Same as ‘Ignore’ 24 Jun 2012 | 02:30 am
(Author: SE Ali) For a long time I watched the news and documentaries without really doubting their content. I implicitly knew that all organisations have agendas but, I presumed, the big ones were o...
One Ancestral Hawk, Darren Naish and Cladism – ‘Not Exactly Science – 02’ 18 Jun 2012 | 08:20 pm
Have you ever wondered whether the hooked upper bill of parrots had anything to do with birds of prey? Long, long ago, that was my first bird evolutionary theory, and it’s been clear since Suh et al. ...
