Audio  After the initial excitement of Tom and Mary reunited (or not quite as was the case thanks to the intricate farce of  The Auntie M...

Nature Alan Hale in the Alamogordo Daily News considers the possibilities for the discovery of silicon based life . He's unconvinced...

TV  Sarah Jane’s final scene in The Hand of Fear .  The Daleks and TARDIS might be the surface reasons for the franchise’s ongoing success...

Architecture The Atlantic has a short history of the Olympiades , Michel Holley's Paris rezoning project that created epic modern stru...

Communications The Parisian speaking clock is eighty years old : "The talking clock at the Paris Observatory has been giving away tim...

Grammar  Last time I attempted to use what I now find is called the "Oxford comma" was at school.  I was told it was wrong, I...

TV Chris Chibnall has an interview for Starburst during which he's remarkably self aware about Torchwood's numerous problems , and...

About   Twitter has finally allowed us to look back into our stream archives and provided us old schoolers with the opportunity to offer som...

TV The AV Club's Random Roles slot invites in Eric Roberts and inevitably asks him about the TV Movie . What was he thinking? ...

Film Popular filmic showman Jacques Rivette offers his review of Titanic as part of a list of his notable films  coupled with his thoughts ...

Film Only about one in every ten Mark Wahlberg films is anything like as good as it should be, but luckily his junket interviews are alway...

That Day  Most official film related websites close within a few years of the related product having been released on some home format or ot...

History   More Adventures in Kilt and Khaki: Sketches of the Glasgow Highlanders and others in France is the World War One memoir of Thomas...

Books Done. After nearly eight years and seventy odd novels, my read through these particular Eighth Doctor stories completed with a six ...

TV  I've never seen Terror of the Zygons . For some readers, that is like admitting I've never seen Star Wars. But the truth...

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visit Borough Market , a photo by The British Monarchy on Flickr.

Nature Mariska the equine Houdini : "The Friesian opens her stables door then those of her stableyard fellows, top and bottom, lett...

Books In my haste to post my review last night I got the title of the book wrong with a correction offered by the author (thanks Trevor) w...