Rufus Blooter

I don't know what's going on with Michigan and Wisconsin here, but I find it disturbing: We may have to airlift a research team to t...

The world needs more Ben Goldacres . There's a lack of both good science reporting and a lack of science meta-reporting. Although I'...

I'm now a zealot. I've got a blood test coming up on Monday (standard lipid profile), looking forward to the results. Been on it 6+...

Great PBS project on infrastructure: Blueprint America . It includes video segments, radio pieces, and written articles. I recommend you sta...

I was at the aquarium shop today buying some more plants for my fish to destroy. I love the place -- they are friendly, enthusiastic, and ge...

This exact time last year we were in Lermoos, Austria, as we had been each year this time for five years running. It's a small village n...

I've got a bunch of posts on food, diet, and nutrition on the way. Possibly endless. More rants than posts. I may lose all semblance of ...

Who knows how to fry an egg? No one in the service industry, apparently. Appalling. I've even seen eggs poached in veg oil. Disgusting. ...

For a couple months we'd had a weird kind of back-pressure phenomenon in our plumbing that manifested as slow-draining toilets and gurgl...

Would have loved to see these on the big screen: Babe: Pig In The City Of course, Roger gets it . Funny, wondrous sets, and a bit of wisdom....

I was disappointed to see the burtonesque stop-motion treatment was to be used for the Coraline adaption. There's a smoothness to the w...

I was going to write about the blanket of snow that covered London yesterday, but Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian says it better than I co...