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The Red Queen by Matt Ridley.  Subtitled Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature , this is a book primarily concerned with *checks notes* se...

You might recall, if you follow me on Twitter/X, and why in the name of God would you, that I have occasionally - as a twisted means of expr...

Every day, as I was saying only recently on Twitter , is a school day. And so I'd like to share with you a thing I learnt today as some ...

You will of course remember this post from 2012 and my breathless excitement at having spotted an interesting Google Maps anomaly, somethin...

One of the things that's kept me at a reasonable level of fitness during lockdown is Nia's love for running, which has acted as an i...

Here's one for the file of What Does Any Of This Even Mean headline-parsing challenges : In order to have any chance of understa...

Earthlight by Arthur C Clarke. It's two hundred or so years in the future and Earth is getting a bit crowded and, in any case, livin...

There are a couple of interesting things about the whole YANNY vs. LAUREL sound illusion thing that's been sweeping the internet lately...

Last one on this topic, honest. The other thing worthy of mention in the box of old books was this one: Amazon Adventure by Willard Price...

Hunky square-jawed hero Eric's manservant (no, stop it ) from Disney's The Little Mermaid , the Ladybird tie-in book of which is one...

Here's one for the "coincidence?? OR IS IT??!?!!!? yes; yes it is" files - last night while I was cooking dinner I caught the...

Bear with me once again as I indulge my fondness for map-related trivia. Here's an interesting little website that uses data from the ...

Couple of further cetacean observations: firstly that there was a bit about the whale strandings on the Today programme this morning which i...

As well as keeping you up to date with the latest developments in cock graffiti the world over, here at Electric Halibut we also ensure tha...

Honestly, it fair makes you proud to be sort-of-Welsh these days with all the enlightened policy-making that's going on. Hot on the heel...

That last post was getting a bit long, and it was bedtime, but the thing I wanted to go on to do was draw a parallel between the furore ove...

Let's kick off with a bit of light-hearted smut: here's the BBC News article featuring some high-resolution images of the Philae pr...