Look below for a celebration of the noble amateur, but the big corporations have also been amusing us. The British Broadcasting Corporation in particular, with their fine news from the worlds of science and technology. Shadow lamps to connect friends, they announce, for instance. You just have to look don't you? Meanwhile, some bright technospark is automating digital imaging. And coffee protects female memory. Don't argue, is my advice.

Elsewhere, Lucy's going to America. She's been waiting 3.5 million years, and finally she's got a visa. She'll be in Texas, presumably so she can stare reproachfully at most of the citizens.

The grown-ups have been busy as well, cataloguing galaxies. Go here, and help. There's like a million or something to do, and computers can't do it (yet). There's a short tutorial, a test, then they let you loose on the universe. I got 80%, I did. It's a shame for the millions of stars I've put in the wrong box, but that's science for you.