40-year-old's basement was equipped with a steel cage, a child-sized home-made coffin, scalpels, butchering kits, freezers and castration tools

Hospital chiefs have launched an investigation after a mortuary fridge containing the bodies of five infants broke down.

John Cage's centenary provides a perfect peg for a second album by this sound-as-music, music-as-sound improv quartet featuring Norwegian composer Christian Wallumrod on prepared piano and harmonium.

There's more to connecting with the seasons than clock-changing

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If you want the coolest kitchen on the block, why not buy a fridge?

A Taiwanese man grieving over the death of his girlfriend climbed inside a mortuary freezer to be with her and was only pulled out alive half an hour later.

THE IDEA of "the two cultures" in relation to science and the public is now part of our culture. It is 40 years since CP Snow used this phrase in his now famous Rede lecture in Cambridge, although he had used the idea in an article in the New Statesman in 1956. The two cultures to which he was referring were those of literary intellectuals and natural scientists. He drew attention to the mutual incomprehension and suspicion between these two groups.

BURGLARS DISCOVERED an unexpected bonus when they broke into a large outbuilding adjoining a Yorkshire house. It contained three huge chest freezers. None was locked, and each was loaded with food. It must have taken the robbers several tiptoed trips to pile the frozen chunks into their getaway transport. In the darkness (essential backdrop for such villainy) they could not see precisely what they had nabbed. No doubt they wondered over the occupation of the home's occupant. A butcher, perhaps?

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THE FIFTH MIRACLE BY PAUL DAVIES, ALLEN LANE, PENGUIN PRESS, pounds 18. 99

SIR JAMES Lighthill was a good neighbour and friend, as well as a brilliant scientific colleague, write Professor Gustav Born and Professor P. D. Richardson. May we add to your excellent obituary (by Professor D. G. Crighton and Tam Dalyell, 22 July) by recounting the sad coincidence whereby, only a few days before he died, theoretical work done by Sir James in bio- fluiddynamics, a science he pioneered, was related by one of us to experimental work done by the other about 10 years ago?

Kathy Sykes spent last week doling out chocolate and apricot ice- cream to 400 schoolchildren - all in the name of physics. The former Bristol University PhD student, now helping to set up Science World - a giant science exhibition, part of Bristol's Millennium project - is passionate in her efforts to bring science to the public.