Zoomy's thing

It's the othello nationals, in the scenic location of the confusingly-named Newcastle Castle. Which is, of course, a very old castle. ...

What I really want from the World Cup is for England to beat Brazil in the final, because that would just be really cool. So it would make m...

Newcastle, this weekend! For the national othello championship! The nationals are always cleverly arranged so that they start after lunch on...

Should I go to Korea in August? I think I should, actually - there's a memory competition in Seoul on August 25-26, and I like the idea ...

In honour of 100 years of women's suffrage, here's just one of the many brilliant treasures you can find if you read through the arc...

If you type my name into Google, one of the searches it suggests is "ben pridmore net worth". As in, somebody has tried to search ...

Remember all the UK-based TV-wrestling excitement a year and a half ago, around new year 2017? ITV ran a really cool World of Sport Wrestlin...

It really doesn't feel like twenty years since Fat Les, but perhaps that just shows how old I'm getting. I might have to announce...

Just over ten years ago, we had a memorable memory competition in the Wolfson Seminar Room North at Trinity College, Cambridge. You can read...

He's today's google doodle, because it's his 95th birthday, apparently (though he died in 1994). We had to read a book of his sh...

In many ways, I am Groot. By which I mean, I'm somebody who refrained from watching Marvel movies, on the grounds that superhero movies ...

That most famous of (former) British othello players, Aubrey, has apparently published a paper proving that the answer to the Hadwiger-Nels...

May is the coolest month, if you like playing on Memory League ! If you play at least three games (against an opponent or in training) on at...

It's been nothing but memory-talk here on the blog for the last couple of weeks, so let's move to the physical side of things - WWE ...

While watching the action from Gothenburg on Sunday, I entertained myself by creating a spreadsheet to quickly calculate IAM levels when you...

Finishing off with a perfect 50 words in 52.70 seconds, Simon wins the Scandinavian Open! Followed by a great second place performance from ...

One thing I forgot to mention yesterday (I'm really not good at remembering things about memory competitions) is the new world records a...

One thing I forgot to do yesterday was put a link to the Memory League website , where you can watch everything that's happening in Goth...

Well, not for me, but for international memory competitions - this weekend, the Scandinavian Memory League Open Championship is happening in...

DC Comics are celebrating Superman's 80th birthday today, and I suppose it's as good a time as any (the copyright date of Action Com...