The website – started in Scotland by award-winning journalist Ally Millar – is celebrating its first year in the capital with a fitting party: a sleepover in a location familiar to many of the site’s writers – the editor’s flat.

Although this has been a breakthrough year for the site – finally hitting profit in November – the coffers were so tight that payment came by the 26 year old editor inviting contributors – from as far afield as Ireland and even Denmark – to stay on his sofa when paid work opportunities in London came up.

The site whose motto is “by Geeks for Geeks” exists to display the talents of aspiring artists, photographers, journalists, filmmakers, creative writers, and unsigned musicians and is often compared to a UK-wide student newspaper. It enjoys good relations with institutions from Brighton to Aberdeen; Cardiff to Belfast.

In the past we’ve pinched a few links from these guys, so we feel its only fair to say you should head over and check out the new site and geek out.

It takes the basic format of Discovery, which is, you know, fascinating, unbelievable science stories. [Each show will have] six or seven of these science pieces, with us doing a lot of the demos ourselves, and one of them is a lie. It continues our obsession with critical thinking and skepticism. The formation of Penn & Teller was about the idea: Can you use magic to tell the truth? Can you use the idea of lying to really get to what it means to have a fact? Everybody’s lying to people on TV, so it’s interesting to say when you are.

We wanted to work with Discovery, and then banged around a lot of different ideas. The fact of the matter is that in Penn and Teller: Bullshit and Penn & Teller: Tell a Lie, the first three words are the same. But whether you’re talking about our live show or about our TV shows, it’s always been about how we, as humanity, tell the difference between fact and fiction. How do we assess the truth, whether you’re talking about the edges of science or about communication between people? That issue is very fascinating to us.

Read more about the show and it’s availability here.

Continuing the 2012 Dates for Svengali, Blackpool Opera House has now confirmed it will issue tickets as of today.

Click here to buy.

Staring none other than Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde and Cillian Murphy, In Time looks at an idea visited in the Sci Fi classic Logan’s Run, where everyone lives until the age of 25. In this society everything you pay for is done so in “life hours”. By working you earn more time, but as things get more expensive society becomes more unfair and the super rich have all the time in the world.

Streaming by Ustream

Courtesy of Shark Week at the Discovery Channel

Tickets are on sale now – click here.

Magician, card master and all round mysterious man Drummond Money-Coutts has organised a treasure hunt in the Natural History Museum in London. He’s carefully hidden small envelopes around the venue with £50 notes in them. However this week he’s putting £1000 in to one for a lucky individual to find and keep.

So far only 3 have been found which means there’s still plenty more up for grabs. Subliminal clues on his facebook page might just help reveal the answer.

http://www.facebook.com/DrummondMoneyCoutts

Professor Brian Cox (who has recovered from the neck injury shown above) takes a look through nearly 50 years of BBC archive at the story of man’s relationship with the Moon.

From the BBC’s space fanatic James Burke testing out the latest NASA equipment to 1960s interviews about the bacon-flavoured crystals that astronauts can survive on in space, to the iconic images of man’s first steps on the Moon and the dramatic story of Apollo 13, Horizon and the BBC have covered it all.

But since President Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s was reached, no one has succeeded in reigniting the public’s enthusiasm for space travel and lunar voyages. Why?

On his journey through the ages, Professor Brian “Lovely” Cox explores the role that international competition played in getting man to the Moon and asks if, with America no longer the world’s only superpower, we are at the dawn of a bright new space age.

Available now at iPlayer

For those of you in need of a Richard Wiseman fix, there’s plenty to keep you happy even if you live in the US. His recent book has had trouble finding a publisher open minded enough to distribute it, despite the fact it’s had rather wonderful endorsements from:

James Randi
PZ Myers
The Magic Newswire

and many others including Richard Dawkins who has said that in the book ”Wiseman shows us a higher joy as he skewers the paranormal charlatans, blows away the psychic fog and lets in the clear light of reason“.]

Available in the UK here: Amazon Book, Amazon Kindle
Available in the US here:  Amazon Book, Amazon Kindle

Official website here.

Harry Lonsdale is a chemist in Bend, Oregon, who made a fortune when he sold his drug development and research company to Pfizer more than 25 years ago. Since then, he has leveraged his wealth for social, civic, and political causes, including a series of unsuccessful bids to become a U.S. senator. The 79-year-old Lonsdale is an avowed atheist who has advocated for gay rights, campaign finance reform, and environmental protections. Now, he’s on a mission to accelerate the quest to understand how life originated. Over the past 2 weeks, Lonsdale has taken out ads in Science, Nature, and Chemical and Engineering News announcing an Origin of Life Research Award that includes $50,000 for the best proposal to study the origin of life and up to $2 million in potential funding to carry out the work.

Full story at Richard Dawkins