This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Splitting hairs — “Academics are often accused of ‘splitting hairs’,” David Taylor tells Feedback. “Well this year my team and I have done just that. We built a machine which can literally split a single hair from […]
“[…] a need exists for a new and unique cemetery theme that may allow the deceased some options when considering where and how to be buried.“ This need may be met by a newly issued US patent, granted to inventor David Montgomery, of California. His invention suggests that replica theme-parks (e.g. baseball stadium, golf course, […]
Shakespeare wrote, in his Sonnet 71 : “No longer mourn for me when I am dead Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.” But which worms exactly? For steps towards answers, turn to the Sept 3rd […]