According to experts, “the human race has peaked and could soon start moving backwards in terms of height, lifespan and physical performance”. Here’s the hard evidence: the average height of NFL football players in the US...
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FOOD & DRINK We all love adding extra ingredients to what we eat, drink, use or make until it is “just right” like Goldilocks’ porridge. Adding milk and sugar to coffee? Fine, whatever tickles your taste buds. How about...
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.” Emo Philips (1990) Admit it. We get close to our computers just like we get close to our dogs. They both have funny little habits like lying down...
We all know the difference between off and on, or do we? Our washing machine, having finished the thankless task of removing smells and stains from my clothes, should be off, but it’s not truly off. It’s doing something...
A Short&Humorous interview with Professor Evan Level, Ph.D, Professor of Flatitudinal Studies, Pancake University, Flatchester. S&H: Professor Level, I understand that you have revolutionized tertiary education by...
When Isaac Newton was a mathematics student at Cambridge in 1665, the University closed its doors. This may have been due to the neighbours complaining about the raucous, high pitched sounds coming from the King’s College...
There I was driving behind a big tipper truck full of dirt, emblazoned with the company name and motto: “DIRT-TEK – For all your dirt technology needs phone 1-800-DIRT” I imagine there is a lot of technology...
I was on my daily walk around the lake. A smallish older woman with white fluffy hair was holding onto the lead of her small white fluffy dog – a West Highland terrier. She was standing at a bend in the path talking to...
“The landlady of a boarding house is a parallelogram – that is an oblong angular figure which cannot be described but which is equal to anything” (from “Boarding House Geometry” by Stephen Leacock in...