This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them:
- Diet of worms? — The phrase “diet of worms” intrigues people (if it intrigues them at all) in various ways. For historians, it can trigger arguments about a political convocation that happened in the city of Worms, in Germany in the year 1521. For nutritionists, the phrase can describe the work of scientists who are considering whether all of today’s 8 billion or so humans could, if need be, subsist on a diet of mainly earthworms….
- Diet of worms— Miller, Mulhall, Pfau, Palm and Denkenberger are but the most recent front-runners in a long parade of scientists drawn to investigate diets of worms. Many others have focused on the diets of the worms themselves….
- Height requirements— News about height requirements for certain courses at Vietnam National University’s school of management and business (HSB) has Feedback wondering….
- Abandoned meals — Inspired by Feedback’s collection of abandoned organisational slogans, Ken Taylor takes note of a slogan about things that were abandoned. “I live in a very rural part of [the] UK – Cumbria. There are lots of isolated properties that are not linked to the sewerage network, so rely on septic tanks. These have to be emptied from time to time. I saw one such tanker going about its business. The slogan on the side said ‘Yesterday’s meals on wheels’. Nothing more to add…”