Frenzied and Sustained

This week we look at the inefficiencies of petrol cars and search nature for something as equally un-parsimonious with its fuel. We shove Frère Jacques through our anagram poetry section that we call My Taragon Pea. Whilst Barry suggested Electric cars, Sam proffered Friend-zoned and sustained where we look at the hapless characters stuck literally forever in the friend zone. We have another new section where we look at what's happening down on the farm but literally the last section lo...

Our Brainy Lecture looks for mass and finds it in the most surprising place. In Songs under the Microscope we explore Nanci Griffith's response to a setback in her 1993 hit Tecumseh Valley. Unlike every other podcast we are in colour, and the colour this week is Bastard Amber so point your browsers at Pantone 148C. Our section that goes by many names including A Greyer Tampon and Mangy Port Area considers the Anagram form of the poem Fi by Pudgy Rail Drink. A Sauce a Sauce M...

This week our Brainy lecture considers Boltzman Brains and shows why, on balance, you probably do not exist. Well, you do, but no one else. The Metamorphosis and The Lobster have the super plastic human mind dealing with absurd propositions whilst still trying to get to work on time. Yorgos Lanthamos was silent about the sauce that would be served with the lobster, but we are serving it with a tangy sorrel sauce. Our misheard lyrics have had me singing “Might as well face it, you’re a d...

Our Brainy Lecture discusses entropy, and considers the theory that life is just a consequence of entropy. We try and bring some structure and order to the debate.Our Songs under the Microscope continues with its next top ten misheard lyrics. Listen on if you want to know who removes umbilicals and who pees in the corner.In A Sauce A Sauce my Kingdom for a Sauce - we go back to the fundamentals of French cuisine with the Sauce Supreme a daughter sauce of the Velouté that we first met way back...

With CRISPR Cas9 gene editing a dystopian future could be just twenty years away. We look at the developments and consider the risks, benefits and ethics.In a Podcasting first we now introduce a podcast with colour, literally with Pantone 448C.Our songs under the Microscope continues its voyage into misheard lyrics.We stress test some common proverbs and found them inaccurate at best and the purveyor of very poor counsel at worst.Finally, we consider how language dictates the rhythm and pace ...

This week's Brainy Lecture considers Final Cut Pro for genes with the CRISPR gene splicing technology. We look at how it works and how it may help humanity. We spot the first misuse of the technology was well.We welcome back our Songs under the Microscope with a special misheard lyrics edition.Stand by your shallots as this week we are giving our kingdom for a red wine sauce.In Literally the Last Section we finally tackle 50 Shades of Grey and we compare and contrast it to Harry Potter....

This week our Brainy Lecture considers the multiverse and what that might mean for free will. It examines the theory that a big bang occurs in every black hole with each new universe a slightly tweaked version of its parent thus giving a kind of cosmic evolution.In Sports that Definitely should be in the Olympics we throw our women over our shoulders and feminism back two hundred years as we delve into the murky sport of wife carrying.Our local news from around the Frenzied and Sustained dias...

This week's Brainy Lecture considers the Finely Tuned Universe and notices that if one of 20 physical constants were slightly different that life, the universe and everything may not exist. Is this evidence for our extreme good luck, someone fiddling with the dials on our behalf, or that we live in a multiverse. We continue our series of Sports that should Definitely be in the Olympics with the ancient and hazardous pursuit of cheese rolling. Talking of food, A Sauce a Sauce, my k...

The Fermi Paradox asks why have we no sign of all the super intelligent aliens, why have they not made contact yet; especially as they may have had a 4 billion year lead over us A Sauce A Sauce My Kingdom for a Sauce gives you a foolproof way of creating your own fabulous mayonnaise and thus freeing you from the tyranny of Hellmann’s forever.In Literally the Last section we watch Robert Redford wash Meryl Streep's hair for three hours in film Out of Africa. W...

We compensate for our rubbishy gelatinous orbs in our skull and use astrophotography to reveal that the night skies above our heads to be full of dramatic colour, shapes and jewel like stars. Talking of which, we calculate that adding diamonds to the soles of your shoes, as first suggested by Paul Simon, can be a highly cost effective shoe construction technology compared with normal leather shoe resoling. It also stops Paul Simon from Slip Sliding Away. We examine the scandalous under t...