Think Call The Midwife with cocaine, suicide, racism, blood – lots of blood – and just a touch of moral ambiguity. Okay, so Call The Midwife might not be the most apt comparison to The […]
TV | Fleming – Shaken but not quite stirred enough
It’s clear that James Bond was Ian Fleming’s idol; his books were his desired autobiography, with “you as you’d like to be”, as his wife is quick to point out to him in the new BBC […]
Science | What causes the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)?
Although 93 million miles away, the Sun’s activity is the actual cause of the Aurora Borealis. Huge magnetic storms on the Sun’s surface send waves of charged particles into the Earth’s atmosphere via solar wind, these […]
TV | Karl Pilkington – The Moaning of Life
The “little round headed buffoon” is back and oh how we have missed him. Karl Pilkington’s new series sees him go it alone without the great contribution of Gervais and Merchant. The first episode addresses […]
LS Answers: Why is the sky blue?
Look to the daytime sky in clear (cloud-free) conditions and you’ll see that it is light blue in colour. Until around 150 years ago, a sound scientific explanation as to why the sky was […]