When Walter Perez taunted a Muslim man for wearing eye make-up, he could not have known that he would pay for such unkindness with his life. His heavily kohl-ed target, enraged and armed, stabbed him to death. Abdelmalek Bayout, an Algerian who claimed ...
“OK, officer, I admit it. I failed to indicate when I pulled out and didn’t notice the zebra crossing. Oh, and sorry for cutting you up. But go easy on me. I haven’t slept in days, I’m late for an appointment, and I have a Val66Met. Yep, that’s right. ...
Unless you’ve been locked inside the Large Hadron Collider for the past month, you can’t have missed the enormous advertisements for Eureka, this paper’s fine new monthly magazine about science and the environment. One billboard highlighted the ...
Does your shopping trolley look as though a scientist has been let loose on it? There are superfoods and superjuices, energy drinks with antioxidants, fishfingers in packaging that flaunts omega-3 credentials, breakfast cereals fortified with ...
From Eureka, our new science and environment magazine He was a professor at an American university. She was a scientist with money to support worthy research projects. Thrown together by want and ambition, would they have to put professional ethics ...
How delicious is the feeling of fine silicon crystals slipping twixt one’s foot digits. How pleasing is the sight of our nearest star as the Earth rotates in such a manner as to cause it to disappear below the horizon. Gorgeous sandy beaches and exotic ...
If you are a glass-half-empty sort of person you might find yourself tempted by the Cheltenham Literature Festival event on October 17 entitled “2050: Did Science Save Us?”. This discussion will take participants more than 40 years into the future, ...
We can be quite sure that the British violinist Matthew Trusler had never bowed his strings at a forest husbandry conference before — or that he had played his 1711 Stradivarius to such a bemused audience. Still, it was all in a good scientific ...
So, you fancy going for a drink? Madam, you’re reasonably engaging, but — oh dear — you’re carrying a few extra pounds around the waist. I don’t want to risk becoming lardy myself. In fact, I’m pretty sure I have to stay in and spend a long time ...
In the past decade, the concept of not growing old has crept from the pages of fiction into the mission statements of some of the best research institutions in the world. The branding is different — they speak of “regenerative medicine” or “tissue ...
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