James' Empty Blog

OK, by now we all know that in Sudan it is illegal to allow a child to name a teddy bear after himself. But I'm sure that every country...

Many of you have presumably noticed that BBC environment correspondent Richard Black has written a bit about climate change "scepticism...

I blame the Port Lockroy porridge . ( Antarctic cruise ship evacuated )

Yokohama school to cancel lunch for 2 days due to oil price hike Let them eat whale - there's plenty of it stockpiled up.

Jim Giles had an article in NewScientist on open access publishing recently, along somewhat similar lines to his article in Nature earlie...

Japan's largest language school - I use the term loosely - folded recently, leaving many foreigners stranded here with no means of suppo...

"The Conservatives have set out plans which they say will ensure children can read by the age of sixteen." Actually they said six,...

Those of you who care about the reputation of the AGU may be concerned at what they have allowed to happen to JGR-Atmospheres: Global Warmin...

Japan Today - News - British families urged to take their holidays in Japan And what better way to encourage them than to fingerprint and ph...

" the government recognized suicide as a death of a person... who is at the end of their rope " The govt has released a white pape...