The last week of my holiday included a first visit to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where we enjoyed a wide variety of gigs, including the well-received Oxford Gargoyles, performances of A Clockwork Orange and Sunday in the Park with George, and a series of street shows, shorts, comedy turns and sketch shows of which the best was probably that by The Three Englishmen.

While searching for something in a previous blog, I discovered that there is quite an industry in cyberspace devoted to analysing blogs! Some examples are here, here, here and here. I also followed a tweet to an interesting (if necessarily subjective) list of ’21 scientific research projects that could change the world’. [...]