204 / Cinderella left with an extra second
A July news item made the year 2005 look like a Cinderella who’s left with an extra second after the midnight stroke. That [...]
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965 / A plunge in human-made noise
COVID-19 couldn’t have silenced the mobile Towers of Babel, but it did stop the stampeding humanity in its tracks. The global effect of [...]
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964 / Information held for a short while
Did you readily decide to comply with social distancing in the early days of COVID-19? If you didn’t, Weiwei Zhang would say “blame [...]
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963 / Running Nineteen, with no hugs
The year 2020 would go into history as the “no hugs” year — a year in which people were forced to limit the [...]
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961 / Can ignorance be traced to a source?
Students mute their ignorance and answer questions correctly in an exam, without their ignorance being detected by teachers. Is this a possible scenario? [...]
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960 / Uncertainty as part of all research
One of the most prominent theories in modern science is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Bertrand Russell said there is nothing uncertain about it, but [...]
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959 / Social distancing was an apt lesson
Zebrafish are known for their pro-social behaviour, but around 10% of them are ‘loners’ who dismiss social cues. The brain activity of this [...]
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