by Tom | Aug 24, 2015 | Personal, Reading, Science
Wow. One of those rare change your opinion reads (for me, of course, YMMV). A must read and the devastating summary I’d select is this: …the terrible truth is that, except through surgery, for the great majority of sufferers, obesity is an incurable...
by Tom | Aug 6, 2015 | Science, View
Properly brilliant waste of a year+ and loads of money to get a hoverboard going. Insane. Worth watching the behind the scenes video as well. Some track trickery, but nothing that couldn’t be made to work in real life.
by Tom | Mar 11, 2015 | Science
This is properly brilliant. Crank up your sound and use Chrome to see it work well. Just your computer speaker and microphone needed.
by Tom | Jan 23, 2015 | Hong Kong / China, Science, View
I’d never heard it called that…
by Tom | Jan 15, 2015 | Reading, Science
This. What an astonishing achievement and one we should continue to support and build upon. It’s a little strange when you think about it: Just about every American ninth-grader has never lived a moment without astronauts soaring overhead, living in space. But...
by Tom | Sep 11, 2014 | Business, Reading, Science
Humans are rubbish at time management and one of the reasons is our poor ability to understand how we make choices on short and long scales. The example in the piece is choosing a meal two weeks ahead versus two minutes ahead: we go healthy until we actually come to...