Er, no.

Mr Fahrenheit basically made it up. (With help.)

Lies, damned lies, and statistics!

More Kroll than Cthulhu!

"It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end."

On a Stone Age boat, 8000 years ago!

A classic. "We observed the teaspoons for a total of 5668 teaspoon days."

"It is striking how fixated on the alleged behavior of our hunting-and-foraging forbearers some educated inhabitants of the developed world have become."

Just one of those classic headlines.

Tinfoil secrets revealed by digital scanning.

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! (though possibly swimming in circles now.)

Best. Headline. Ever.

"I am five, and have been wondering about this for almost half my life now: how many ice cubes would it take to put out the sun?"

Fantastic pic.

On neurology and nonsense.

@ITregillis wrote more about this last year at http://bit.ly/QKpygf and subsequent. (Warning: rabid libertarian comments.)

Stephen's is one you can't see.

Forecasts from 1900.

From the New Guinea rain forest.

Q: What do you think most about during the day? A: Women. They are a complete mystery.

"the most interesting thing in my office is a little grey box, which contains the only copy we have of Stephen's hardware voice synthesiser. The card inside dates back to the 1980s and this particular one contains Stephen's voice. There's a processor on it which has a unique program that turns text into speech that sounds like …

A user's guide to very dangerous chemicals.

What we learn from Twitter.

Fish proteins react to pollution.

Brilliant. And for once the background music is not too annoying.

Wow, I wish I'd been in those seminars.

First of three fascinating posts about helium, this one explaining why it is a scarce and non-renewable resource.

Not to put too fine a point on it, the US Federal Government has been hosting a fire sale of a rare and nonrenewable resource—Everything must go!  No price too low!  We'll entertain any offer!—for the past 15 years.