Science

Do you ever wonder why people live in Norway? I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with the country per se, it’s just that if I’d been an early homo sapiens migrating out [...]

Do you ever stop and wonder about the provenance of certain facts? Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire? Says who? It’s a well known fact that bananas are a rich source of [...]

No, that’s not the sound of me trying to think of something to write. It’s a word that’s been in my head all week since sending the last word out to the wrong mailing list [...]

Last week I took the liberty of plagiarising a joke about cabinet making. It was a joke worth nicking, I thought, and I know that at least two of you had never heard it before, so that made it [...]

You may have received an email recently (or perhaps 400 emails) encouraging you to pivot. And you may have thought, “Bit rude.” But that wouldn’t have been the intention. While [...]