And now for something slightly different, a photo collection showing the contents of people's refrigerators. Nice and clean a lot of them are also. This should be requisite viewing in all offices, after all, "you wouldn't keep your fridge at home in the state that the office fridge ends up in, and here's the proof!"

Another of Albert Einstein's accomplishments, in conjunction with Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, was the invention of a refrigerator that operates without electricity, or the environmentally damaging freons currently used in fridges. Malcolm McCulloch, a scientist at Oxford University in Britain, is leading a team to revive development of the idea. Einstein and Szilard's idea avoids the need for freons. It uses ammonia, butane and water and takes advantage of ... Read full entry