From New Scientist‘s Feedback column: CAMPAIGNING for another bridge or tunnel across the Thames river in London, blackwalltunnel.com presents meters showing the traffic flowing into and out of each portal of the existing Blackwall tunnel. Checking the site at 5 pm on a Friday, Feedback was concerned to see huge numbers of vehicles entering the […]
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Education: Choose your own dates
From New Scientist‘s Feedback column: WHEN you are selling education packs for children, some of whose parents might be fervent creationists, one of the options available is to, well, cave in to them and ditch the education part. That seems to be the option chosen by US publisher Live and Learn Press with its dinosaur […]
Medical attention for Tikosyn
From New Scientist‘s Feedback column: A fact sheet for the heart drug Tikosyn advises: “Seek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur when using Tikosyn: Severe allergic reactions… fast, slow, or irregular heartbeat; fainting; heart attack; pale stool; paralysis; pounding in the chest; stopping of the heart; sudden death; yellowing […]
Europe puts a rabbit on the moon
From New Scientist‘s Feedback column: AN ARTICLE in London newspaper The Daily Telegraph about the first images from the European Space Agency’s orbiting Planck observatory ended with the paragraph: “The telescope is looking at the heat left behind by the big bang. It is a job comparable to measuring the body heat of a rabbit […]