A while ago I submitted a paper on what it’s like to be taught transgressive literature as a creative writing student to an external creative writing resource pool  I got it back from peer review today, and it turns out that academics can be incredibly cutting when they want to be and it’s totally anonymous.  […]

 
Why bats - who echolocate moving objects - are killed by turbines has remained a mystery until now. The research council thought the high-frequency noise from the turbines’ gears and blades could be disrupting the bats’ echolocation systems.
In fact, a new study shows that the moving blades cause a drop in pressure that makes the […]

Scientists are receiving death threats over phone and email, as well as pleas for reassurance that their children will be safe when the 17 mile gizmo is turned on next Wednesday.
My very favourite quote comes from Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, and should serve as reassurance to us all that a chunk of Europe […]

The elephant, captured in 2005 in southwest Chine by illegal traders, was fed heroin-laced bananas to control him for months.  After three days in rehab, he is now ‘clean’ and to be moved to a wildlife park in Kunming.
What a nice, strange story.
Original here.

An extract from Gabe, which has been coming along very well.

Sins
 
I’ve heard that it’s the same at every concentration camp: no birds fly over, there aren’t any insects and you can’t hear any traffic noise.  Dachau is the same as I remember it, cold and barren in every sense of the word.  […]