How to get your metaphorical but fashionable knickers in a twist
I turn today to the world of fashion. This is not a world that interests me one bit. Once upon …
Monthly Archives: September 2016
How to show two sides of the coin
This is a follow up to my bog about hygge. https://nobodysreadingme.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/how-to-think-wont-get-fooled-again-much/ This, you may remember, is the current vogue for …
How to become a xenobiologist
Bit of an odd one this, coming about as it did by sheer happenstance. I collected a small bunch of …
How to have the cockles of your heart warmed yet again
Oh dearie me. Two stories that made me go, ‘OFFS.’ The Mail on Sunday, which is even more of a …
How to win scientific accolades
It’s that time of year again when the Annals of Improbable Research (not to be confused with the Journal of …
How to think ‘There’s a coincidence.’
This odd happenstance occurred on Friday. Both the i and The Times carried comment about ill-mannered pedestrians. Let’s turn first …
How to be a charlatan. An ongoing series
Those of you who have been with me for a while will be aware of my attitude to astrology. I …
How to be the bearer of bad news for cat ladies everywhere
You’ve got to admire Peter Marra, an ornithologist (from the Smithsonian, no less) and Chris Santella, a journalist. They got …
How to wonder who watches the watchmen
Yes indeed. As Juvenal put it in his Satires, ’Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’ Plato had previously considered the same subject …
How to go, ‘Oh for goodness sake!’ Again
Last week came the news that using a mobile phone while you’re driving will now cost you a heftier fine …
