Frank Swain just moved in this morning, so the boxes are still unpacked. You can see his old work on sciencepunk.com, Guardian Science Blog and Sence About Science, but from now on, he'll be writing on Science Punk, so go there and say Hello!
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Coming back from the pub, I find the edit comment Someone added a bunch of none sence. First of all, it's not a giant beaver the creates the wind. Second, it's impossible that the people you mentioned knew about beavers.
Sometimes when I'm futzing around the web looking for interesting pieces of news a theme just seems to pop out at me. Today it happens to be the over reliance and distractions of technology.
In
the late '60's - early '70's, is was commonplace for bands to write
songs that were utterly meaningless, then pass them off as great works
of art. The products of pure genius.
I
head one such song on the way home from work: