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“Apparently, 71% of 15-to-25-year-olds wouldn’t consider science jobs. Science jobs are fantastic! You get to find things out all day long. It’s like Wikipedia with Bunsen burners… Just look around at this week’s science stories and see how much more fun they are than being sacked from a multinational bank.”

I’ve just learned that a labyrinth and a maze are two very different things.

I’ve only just discovered Archaeology Magazine’s weblog. This is about what the archaeologists were looking for when they found the Mayan underworld. And she’s right, it is more interesting.

An ancient temple roof glows with an unearthly radiance. A ‘crore’, if you read this, is ten-million.

Dr Badgr shows how you can use RSS to track journals.

I’m wary of the ‘nuclear family’ hypothesis, but Julien Riel-Salvatore shows there is still plenty of reason to be interested in the Haak paper which made the news this week.