How to Avoid Boston Traffic

The Boston Globe has an article about a new company, started by MIT grad students, working on a flying car. The Terrafugia Transition is a roadable airplane with folding wings.

Song, er, Singh of the Nitpickers

The new issue of Symmetry hit the streets. In it is Simon Singh's account of the mock feud he got into with pop singer Katie Melua.

Originally, the song went:
( Original lyrics )

Singh persuaded her to re-record the song with more scientifically accurate lyrics:
( Revised lyrics )

He writes, "Thanks to my flippant spat with Katie, people who would never think of picking up my 500-page book on the big bang were getting a dose of cosmology. As a writer who wants to get people excited about science, the writing of the original article was probably the most productive hour of my career."