Happy birthday lego

Today is the 50th birthday of lego. I used to love Lego when I was little. Back in my day it was all about being creative with the basic building blocks, now it’s all Batman and Indiana Jones and Mars Mission which are all well and good until you lose a key part and then the whole thing becomes much more complicated.

I spent many happy hours lego-ing and building, and I’m sure I could make some comparison with engineering or maths or physics or building blocks of life or something that would justify this post’s place on a science blog, but really the only reason why I’m writing this is because it gives me an excuse to post a link to this YouTube clip, of an Eddie Izzard sketch rendered in lego. I promise it will improve your Monday by at least a little bit. And I’ll post something else sciency later.