Jalapeno insomnia

According to weekly Elsevier, eating lots of jalapenos helps one sleep at night.

Must be why I crashed about two hours before my normal bedtime yesterday night after eating a very spicy pizza, only to wake up at about 2.30 AM and spend the next three hours exploring various sides of my bed (FYI: there are four) before drifting off again. Fortunately, the gardener decided this morning was perfect to start trimming the lawn at 7AM, though I only needed to get up at 9...

Thanks, Elsevier!

11:33

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Kyoto scepticism

Thanks to Pieter: finally there's an English version of an excellent article by Marcel Crok, a Dutch science journo, on the so-called 'greenhouse effect'. Crok won the 'Glass Griffin' with it, a prize for talented young science hacks.

10:37

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Puff the Magic FBI Agent

According to the Feds, just saying 'maybe' may sometimes be enough.

10:32

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