Happy meat
I know a guy who stopped traffic to save worms from being run over. He spent an hour rescuing what he said was “all the worms in Mount Albert”. Later that night...
Tag: science
Climate change of thrones
Planet Earth sits in the doctor’s office nursing a high temperature. “You’re very sick,” says the doctor.
Love and tears in a man’s world
Speaking to a gathering of senior female scientists last week, Sir Tim Hunt said, “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they ar...
How to land on a comet
... We can all learn something from the European Space Agency. They had a vision for where they wanted to go, they figured out what they needed to do to get the...
Road safety versus The Invisible Gorilla
...We assume that a hands-free phone is safe, because intuition (and now legislation) tells us that having the phone in our hand while driving is dangerous. But...
Attractive persuasion of the rare beard
... Attention all men who grow beards. You’re cramping my style. Science backs me up on this. It’s something called “negative frequency dependency”. It means th...