James' Empty Blog

Every week it seems that there's a different flower in full bloom round here. Currently it's the turn of the azaleas. This is the pa...

Yawn. I'm not even going to provide a link. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky!

Nintendo Co said Friday it has decided to name its next-generation game console "Wii" I think someone skimped on the market resear...

Foreign Minister Taro Aso on Friday called for the creation of the manga world's equivalent of a Nobel Prize for up-and-coming non-Japan...

Science has a review of Hegerl et al , which includes a brief nod to our work too, and a handful of other researchers endorsing the method a...

I realise that I haven't done my fair share of antiseptic duties recently - leaving it to the likes of Stoat and RC instead. It's ...

There was a really good programme on BBC Radio 4 last night on climate change, and specifically the question of whether it is (sometimes/of...

Stories of old Japanese soldiers who never came home after WWII, and who are still hiding out in the jungle somewhere (perhaps even imaginin...

A new paper is out in Nature this week: " Climate sensitivity constrained by temperature reconstructions over the past seven centuries ...

There's an article in Science's Policy Forum on blogging: Environmental Science Adrift in the Blogosphere -- Ashlin and Ladle 312 (5...