My posture sucks. This is a fact oft commented upon by my father, noticed by me in photos and, recently, pointed out to me by a woman on the tube: "You look fantastic, but my goodness, your back! Stop slouching!"

Now, I'm tall. Most of my friends are not and were not when I was growing up, so my shoulders round a little forwards and I do stoop. It's ( Read more... )

One other person on the planet has the same viewpoint as me on space exploration.

All space programmes still seem to be working on the presumption that mankind will, one day, live on other planets. Why? Why? Let’s all remind ourselves: other planets don’t have Paris on them. They don’t have honeysuckle or English breakfast tea or tubas or blackbirds ( Read more... )

Yes, I am babysitting the theatre and its constituent actors today. So I poke the internets.

I saw this video of a man saving some vertiginously challenged ducklings on the Beeb website and thought, "hey, I've seen this before." Which I had. Because the same bloke did the same thing last year when the ducks were similarly stuck on a ledge.

Urban duck ( Read more... )

Apparently, the higher a woman's emotional intelligence, the better her sex life. Sort of. I read this at first with a smirk on my face, which then turned into a scowl. I'm now feeling strangely resigned to the gender-based assumptions and Bad Science reportage going on.

Let's start from the beginning shall we? First up, Emotional Intelligence. I've ( Read more... )

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