"What is that box, anyway? Why have you got a box? Is it like a snogging booth?"

TV Oh well played the BBC. Here's the Doctor Who's The Day of the Doctor trailer that went out Saturday night which presumably few of us w…

Eye of Orion.

Astronomy The Earth Sky blog reports that in some parts of the world, after sunset tonight, the Moon and Jupiter will be incredibly close : "F…

Bruce Springsteen.

Music The Guardian remembers the night Bruce Springsteen played East Berlin : "Forget David Hasselhoff," says Erik Kirschbaum, author of …

The Crave of Skulls.

Art Richard Harris collects art thematically, specifically connected to momento mori, especially depictions of skeletons and skulls : "While s…

"Our lives are different to anybody else’s."

TV One of the elements of the modern world which still confuses me is what constitutes being a geek or nerd. Computer and video games now sell in …

Sarcophagus.

Archaeology T he world's largest ancient Egyptian sarcophagus has been identified in a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings : "Made of …

How would you find out how many days are in the lunar month?

Linguistics Did Neil Armstrong flub his moon speech, or have we all simply misunderstood his accent? "Which led a team of researchers from Mic…

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Courtroom.

Bats.

People The Londonist on "The Day Batman Crashed Into Chelsea" : "June 1874, and a peculiar sight could be spied over Chelsea. A hot-…

Lash.

Iris' Bus.

The Mysterious Planet.

History The voluminously researched website West End at War has the message form reports of an incident at Marble Arch tube station on 17 September…

Cardinal Richelieu.

Radio In 2009, Radio 4's The Long View compared ... well ... Cardinal Richelieu and Lord Mandelson Jonathan Freedland presents the series that …

robotics

Nature This coming Saturday, a new plastic pal who's fun to be with, is going to be unveiled in Zurich , the BBC Magazine reports: "Roboy&…

The Feast of Melkur.

Tiddlywinks.

Games H2G2 has a suitably impressive, if slightly ancient (1999, updated 2008) entry on Tiddlywinks : "Like so many sports and games, tiddlywi…

Jo Grant.

History The Aspen Daily News reports on a project to build a local history of the area : "Josephine Jones, Colorado Humanities program directo…

Brotherhood of Logicians.

National Space Museum.

Space The National Space Centre in Leicester is to commemorate Sir Patrick Moore in an evening of events on 28 September between 19:00 - 22:00 . T…