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Love-sick, that’s Sir Roger’s friend, unfortunately, and Sir Roger needs your help. Sir Roger has a friend – no, really – who is, to put it politely, totally smitten with this girl. Love-sick is what he is; there is no better way to describe it. UPDATE: Sir Roger’s “friend” has responded fiercely to Sir Roger’s [...]

Sir Roger is not one to boast. But he felt it right to congratulate you, his cherished friend, on your taste, intelligence, discrimination and excellent choice

Amazing Penguin discovery and an unseasonal spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. Perhaps this might help to explain the mystery of a penguin colony in Sydney.

A Sciencey Xmas celebration with Robin Ince, Ben Goldacre and Brian Cox, Weird Placebo Effects, Amazing Universe and Onion News is Back with the Palin Effect!

Influential and surprising people go to bat for dealing with global warming or clean air or both – including a CIA Director and Richard Branson.

This dreadful virus attacked Sir Roger’s computer just two nights ago.

So here’s a heads-up for the new year about how gullible people can be and how ignorant and stupid celebrities can be (or maybe they’re just greedy).

Check out this picture, one of a series taken by Twitter users of yesterday’s total eclipse of the moon, posted on Mashable.

Your heart will pound, your jaw will drop, your tongue will flop to the floor, your brain will expand. You’ll want to be a spaceman or spacewoman all over again

Majority Of Male Voters Would Have Elected Naked Woman; Global Warming Issue May Still Be A Problem; Oprah Invites Lucky Fans To Be Buried With Her In Tomb

Carl Sagan’s birthday present was delivered with a big bang by the Large Hadron Collider this week. Meanwhile a US politician bases science policy on Genesis.

This is about the tightest argument against woo-woo one has seen.

Stephen Hawking’s new book says “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.” This has enraged vested interests.