You're the first person I've asked that has come up with this mid-point idea.

Which sort do you think you are?

As well as Bill and Pascal, Jo and Phil went along to Monday's Science Cafe. Jo and Phil work for a pharmaceuticals company, so phrases like 'recombinant DNA' hold no fear for them!

The subject covers the spectrum from taking the basic molecules of life and using new variants to …

Some time ago I started reading a Wendy Perriam. 'The 50 minute hour ' I think it was called. I found I just couldn't get into it. Perriam was an author I remember my mum reading, so I thought I'd give her another go with Lying. I believe that Perriam has …

Awful film full of selfish hippies (The Beach, that is, not Akira!)

Oh, poor Tony. Science will never give us Robot cars, maids or lovers. Science only ever provides us with useful things by accident.

I caught the Moral Maze on torture as well and found myself shouting at the radio like a demeted fool. Nobody seemed to get it. It's a moral conundrum with an obvious solution:

If someone hurts someone you love you would willingly, even actively, kill them. This would be an …

After reading the Wikipedia intro I immediately thought in terms of 1s and 0s and that made me think of Fuzzy Logic. Surely at two minutes the lamp is in the process of being swiched on or off and therefore in a third state? I don't quite understand where the …

What sort am I?

Toby asked what I thought of a credit-crunch article in the Telegraph. The key bit for me was:

There is a pure free market position which holds that no financial institution should be bailed out – ever. If this approach was followed, people would factor much more risk into their behaviour …