Oh happy day! Something that combines my favourite pastime—drinking—with my second-favourite pastime—washing down prescription medication with alcohol. Russian professor Evgeny Moskalev of Saint Petersburg Technological University has invented a technique that can turn alcohol into powder to be compressed into pills. This new method is capable of solidifying alcohol renders it dry to carry around in [...]

Well here’s a story that managed to melt my cold, cold heart on an even colder Wednesday afternoon. Perhaps I’m still tired and emotional after twenty-eight hours in transit from Paris to Melbourne (you’re looking at a man who cried at Ice Age 2 on the in-flight entertainment system – tragic), however, the thought of [...]