This is your brain on magic.

Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.

The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?