Smoke, Issue 10 is on sale now. This 'love letter to London' is available from some good newsagents and bookshops, and a few more tawdry outlets for £2.50. Highlights include the Hampstead fish who are evolving to look like William Morris carpets, where to find an alternative universe in Hackney and a double whammy of London's campest statues. There are undoubtedly other good articles in there, but we've only read the first half so......

Workers on the DLR are to be balloted for strikes after a row over pay. Despite the recent rain it looks like we're still in a bit of a drought. A collection of Albert Einstein's papers will go on sale next month for around £800,000. A new Damien Hirst staue, the Virgin Mother, has been unveiled at the Royal Academy of Arts. It's 35ft tall. Kate Moss has beaten up Doherty at his London......

Photograph based on actual events. These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Einstein vs. Newton debate at the Royal Society Bit of a hoary old chestnut, this one. With apologies to Darwin, these two heavyweights would easily top a 100-greatest-scientists-of-all-time poll. Channel 4: get commissioning! But which of the pair made the......

What we need right now is something to take us back to a time when explosions were fun and the men that carried them out were rocket scientists and occultists. We first got interested in reading the book Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons when we saw it mentioned on the rather splendid Dark, But Shining. When it got picked up on Boing Boing we decided to get in......