Don’t you find it remarkable that after 12,000 years of agriculture, the same questions keep cropping up (pardon the pun)? Is a strawberry a fruit? Is a pea a vegetable? Is a potato a root [...]
I’ve just received a message from a friend, warning of a dodgy WhatsApp scam that’s about to land offering an upgrade to WhatsApp Gold. If you fall for it, the message says, the [...]
This week I was planning to write about the word geometry but I couldn’t work out an angle. Was that a groan I just heard? Listen, this stuff doesn’t write itself, you know! Anyway, [...]
If you’re one of those peculiar people who regard football as a silly pastime involving 22 men (or women) chasing a ball around while thousands of other people get really worked up about [...]
There’s a frog in South America, the tadpole of which is bigger than the finished frog. Yes, you read that right. Because of this Benjamin Buttonesque approach to adolescence, it goes by [...]
