James' Empty Blog

( UPDATE 16/1/2011 for those who think I lost the bet, have a look here first.) So, the program went out on Monday (and can be listened t...

Today is "Green Day" (actually, I just found out that Green Day was moved to the 4th May as of last year, and the 29th April is n...

This has been done to death all over the blogosphere (eg here , here and here ), so I can hardly bring myself to post about it. However, I ...

A review of " Japan through the looking glass " by Alan Macfarlane . We heard the author as a guest on late night Radio 5 last yea...

Biofuels have been getting a lot of bad press recently - lots of it justified I'm sure (many schemes seem to have at best a marginal net...

I was going to write about the frogs, but the longer I delay the more stuff comes up and now this is going to be a rather lengthy post...I...

It's that time of year again. And this time we are (unusually) not rushing to or from any conferences so are able to make the most of it...

Looks like the fun is set to continue for a little while longer, cos I've got Corbyn's April forecast. He thinks that April will be ...

Via John Fleck , I see that Marty Weitzman's manuscript is getting more air-time . It has changed a lot since I previously wrote about ...

A quick update on the March results: Corbyn gets a fail on the temperature (he predicted colder than normal, it was warmer according to here...