Sir David Attenborough has had a fossil named after him; it’s a 430 million-year old crustacean named cascolus ravitis (there is a link if you…
Facial recognition software is on the rise and is now being used in the most unusual places. A newspaper reported recently that visitors to the…
I was sad to read this week that the tokens on the Monopoly board are changing. This is notwithstanding the fact that I acknowledge that…
This week, ahead of Mother’s Day, Interflora published the results of a survey into the “fibs” parents apparently tell their children. The “eating carrots make…
Do we look like our pets? I love that opening scene of the Disney “101 Dalmatians” when a host of dog walkers parade across our…
To an unsophisticated 13- year old “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe was terrifying, both in its denouement but also in…