The BBC is paying him by signed photos of James May.

I love these sorts of models — I’m a big fan of the Planet Walk in Munich — precisely because of the perspective they offer in relation to an entirely human scale.

Except you really do need math if you have any interest in engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, medicine, architecture, ecology, business... hell, even the Recreation Management students at my college had to take Prob Stats. My sister took more levels of calculus than I ever knew existed and she works in…

We only dissected cows’/pigs’ eyes from the butcher’s leftovers. I think killing animals just for this purpose is illegal here. Another school got into trouble because they had their biology class train mice. They couldn’t use them for another class because they were already trained. When they wanted to get rid of…

Danny, you suffer from a common misconception and there’s no shame in that. “Cold” isn’t a thing, or a state of matter or anything. “Cold” is simply a lack of heat, in much the same way that “Dry” is a lack of moisture. Heat is energy, and comes in various forms. There’s “infrared radiation” and temperature.…

Has to be urban legend. Pu-238 is an alpha emitter, which means it is essentially harmless unless inhaled. Alpha-particles are stopped by skin. Any Pu-238 source which is cool enough to hold in your hands without getting burned by heat, most certainly will not kill you by radiation.