Maybe he ate the suet?

A birdwatcher in Ontario has claimed he saw a unicorn. I’m not sure what’s better–the video, or this, from the story (which is either itself a hoax or is very well-written by someone with tongue in cheek): In the meantime, the Science Centre is...

The One Ring?

Hobbit fans unite: a possible real-life source for Lord of the Rings? I always feel bad for people who didn’t read Tolkien at the right age. Read it too early, it’s too complicated. Read it too late, it’s so full of dwarves and wizards and...

Chaos as evolution

New Scientist elaborates on the notion of a far more complex vision of evolution. Fascinating stuff: IN 1856, geologist Charles Lyell wrote to Charles Darwin with a question about fossils. Puzzled by types of mollusc that abruptly disappeared from the British fossil...