I am very interested in the work being done by scientists and particle physicists to try and unravel the secrets of the universe although I thought that had been covered in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy"and the answer is 42, see this web site for more information:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/.

Being interested and understanding a subject are however not the same thing. Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cern project -you know the place where the internet was invented. http://public.web.cern.ch/public/
http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/pub/bigbang/file8.html

Well today on the BBC 4 radio program "Material world" which focused on Gamma Ray Bursts they included a discussion of some of Cern's work. You can listen again to the program at the Material World web site at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld.shtml

Some people may not be aware but the BBC has a very good service where you can listen again to programs you may have missed-go on, have a look at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml this service is all covered by the UK listeners and viewers licence fee-I believe that makes it even better value for money, but you may disagree.

However from the subline to the ridiculous. I am currently trying to convince the local District Council that their valient efforts in the Britain in Bloom competition will soon be over shadowed by the amount of weed growth in the towns gutters and pavements - Blooming silly I call it - I have now joined the ranks of the complaining classes.