Charles Darwin was a shy man and avoided public debate, but he still welcomed criticism. When he first published his theories on evolution, his argument was flawed but thankfully, lots of people wrote and told him so. He read every single letter and used the continuous feedback to refine his work in later editions. Without…

..and well on the way to turning into a ‘grup’.

According to German sleep physicians, our bodies are out of synch with the world we now live in resulting in social jet lag. Thanks to a mismatch of about two hours between our biological clocks and the demands of our jobs,at least half the population feels sluggish,disoriented and dazed. They say the solution is to…

‘ ‘The Happiness Hypothesis’ by Jonathan Haidt explains a lot about heart v head. He explains that animals run on automatic processes – in-  built mechanisms that give us a little dopamine reward when we’ve done something like eating or having sex, anything that ensures our long term survival. Humans have managed to make it…

Remember The Terminator? BBC News has a report of bionic muscles, 100 times the strength of human muscles. They operate in a very similar way to real muscles, consuming oxygen, alcohol and hydrogen. Imagine all the changes this will make to everything around us. Will we have to change stuff deal with super-human strength? Laws…

There’s a lot of campaigns around for small small cars that have more space (and isn’t the Bigsmall Yaris simply speaking Micra – Modtro?), since a lot of people find bigger cars difficult to handle but find small cars, well, too small. If the issue is the handling, and a small car will never have…

According to a poll done by Men’s Health magazine, 43% of men are happy with their reflection in the mirror. According to the women in the office, not even 1% of the men here should be. Are blokes the vainer sex, or simply deluded?

I’ve been reading a bit about Brad Gilbert recently. Not only is he one of the most successful tennis coaches out there, he was also a pretty good player. He’s the first to admit that he wasn’t the most talented, but he got to number four in the world. The secret of his success? Hard…

Carol and Rob have made some interesting contributions to the debate about what contemporary culture can teach us. Here’s a some wisdom from Curb Your Enthusiasm series 5 on the mysterious distance between and man and a woman. Cheryl: Goodnight Larry.. what are you doing? Larry: That was a quick snuggle, I’m just coming in…

As a former philosophy (with politics) student this Telegraph article about Plato caught my attention. It argues that what’s missing in modern life is Platonism – the idea of an absolute, perfect truth to everything – even science, morality and art. You may disagree (personally I like the thought of all things being relative to…