Love this picture from the #londonriots doing the rounds at the moment. Whoever did this had talent! http://twitpic.com/643v5l

@tomokohosaka Yep, feeling it too. Remember when with a 'quake your first instinct was to get under the table? Now it's to tweet about it.

@slsingh When you're swimming in the sea and an eel bites your knee that's ... a moray

Length of time 1 tonne of water can cool the reactors at (NHK) #Fukushima No.1 10 hrs, No.2 1.5 hrs, No.3 3 hrs, No.4 15 mins (!)

@billykeenly OK. DC. IC.

@billykeenly Let all the children booger?

@billykeenly Ha ha ha ha ha...

In my NY hotel room with all the news that's fit to print... pic.twitter.com/byOi2BrM65

#ff @hirokotabuchi @ih_c_hi @macscicomm @stuartcantrill @yurikageyama @natureasia @cmdr_hadfield

@hirokotabuchi Terrible. Also bad if you have to go to hospital, a PTA event for one kid leaving the other etc and have no relatives nearby.

@hirokotabuchi Having young kids is a nightmare in Tokyo - even if the primary caregiver doesn't work outside the home.

@hirokotabuchi That's only in the UK!

@hirokotabuchi Not a flake in Sendai. Isn't that odd? Coming back to Tokyo tonight but without my gumboots. Arghh!

@filmmad @kimmiechem2 This year I would like to see more people using the words "fewer" and "less" correctly...

@benbuford No, only joking - the humanities are v. important (I'm a scientist though...).

@benbuford Well, physics and biology at least. Oh, and chemistry of course...

@hirokotabuchi In the same ad series Hama-chan says he'll appear at the opening ceremony. Should be a sufficient deterrent...

@hirokotabuchi One at 8.45 PM apparently but only a tiddler - Shindo 2.

Greenwood and Earnshaw - the best descriptive inorganic textbook around when I was a student: Norman Greenwood obituary  http://gu.com/p/3c525/tw 

RT @telegraphnews: 'I am bitterly, bitterly disappointed': retired naval officer's email to children in full  http://flpbd.it/nbC3h