The Japanese have been researching the effects of lithium in drinking water & unsurprisingly have found that when present it reduces suicide rates. Lithium is currently used to treat bipolar disorder so these results are unsurprising. This research beggars the question "is it ethical to add lithium to drinking water?".For me, this is a slippery slope & I'm reminded of soma in Brave New World which "makes you high yet it's more akin to a hangoverless tranquillise... Read Full Story
So a Vatican boycott likely of Ron Howard's film of Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons". Well sorry, that's just a red rag to a bull as a recovering Catholic I feel compelled to go see it. The only downside I can see is that it's Dan Brown. Read Full Story
Asimov's Foundation is getting the film treatment and it's another one of those things in which I'm in two minds about. Again, as with many other authors, Asimov formed part of my childhood so any film will have to compete with those memories.Don't get me wrong, I don't want the films not to be made I just want them to be very good. The Lord of the Rings films could have been so bad but luckily the director was a LotR geek and he brought a lot of love to the project. I gue... Read Full Story
There's been a certain amount of speculation about the futures ofchannels 4 & 5 with one solution being the merger of the two. I think Ch4 is in better shape than Ch5 & this is purely based of view the channels - 4 seems to have more advertisers than 5 with the latter showing more government ads.Personally, I couldn't care less about 5, I rarely watch it and the only stuff on there of any quality are the US imports which any other channel could easily pick up.Ofcomm has sugges... Read Full Story
