Remember The Terminator? BBC News has a report of bionic muscles, 100 times the strength of human muscles. They operate in a very similar way to real muscles, consuming oxygen, alcohol and hydrogen. Imagine all the changes this will make to everything around us. Will we have to change stuff deal with super-human strength? Laws…

There’s a lot of campaigns around for small small cars that have more space (and isn’t the Bigsmall Yaris simply speaking Micra – Modtro?), since a lot of people find bigger cars difficult to handle but find small cars, well, too small. If the issue is the handling, and a small car will never have…

According to a poll done by Men’s Health magazine, 43% of men are happy with their reflection in the mirror. According to the women in the office, not even 1% of the men here should be. Are blokes the vainer sex, or simply deluded?

I’ve been reading a bit about Brad Gilbert recently. Not only is he one of the most successful tennis coaches out there, he was also a pretty good player. He’s the first to admit that he wasn’t the most talented, but he got to number four in the world. The secret of his success? Hard…

Carol and Rob have made some interesting contributions to the debate about what contemporary culture can teach us. Here’s a some wisdom from Curb Your Enthusiasm series 5 on the mysterious distance between and man and a woman. Cheryl: Goodnight Larry.. what are you doing? Larry: That was a quick snuggle, I’m just coming in…

As a former philosophy (with politics) student this Telegraph article about Plato caught my attention. It argues that what’s missing in modern life is Platonism – the idea of an absolute, perfect truth to everything – even science, morality and art. You may disagree (personally I like the thought of all things being relative to…

…David Armano’s fascinating, ego free blog. He’s a creative director, but not as we know it (if the usual stuff in Campaign Private View is anything to go by).  here’s a great post on Russell’s debate about boring creative directors. More please.

Finally finished Steve Johnson’s ‘Everything bad is good for you’ (thanks to a habit of reading about 3 books at a time it takes a while). I’ll get to his arguments in a sec, but first of all he writes like a dream. Instead of the didactic "I know more than you" style of so…

With guest star Olive Oil: "Imported from Italy" only has to have been bottled there, usually using olives from Greece, Spain or Turkey. "100 pure olive oil" is the lowest grade available. "Made from refined olive oils" means taste and acidity were chemically produced. "From hand-picked olives" suggests that it’s been done with care –…