Once a rite of passage for young people, prank calls now increasingly feel like a relic of the past. “You’re not 72, you’re 15 pretending to be 72… you prat!” barked DJ Pete Price down the receiver of my busted Sony Ericsson mobile. It was 2011, and I had prank-called the Radio City agony aunt, doing an impression of my grandad (RIP) Malcolm’s Hull accent, which my older brother was recording via an online stream downstairs. I was almost instantly rumbled, and the subsequent conversation was broadcast live to the city of Liverpool… read more >
‘Learning Science’ is a 1977 Science Textbook for Kids, Stoners, and the Wasted
The textbook Learning Science, from the classrooms of 1977 – the cover looks benign enough, but what lurks inside are some seriously seventies illustrations… First
