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This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist journal has 5 segments. Here are bits of every of them:
- Time for love — Valentine’s Day celebrates coupling. Alan McWilliam tells Feedback about a proposal he acquired, earlier than probably the most recent Valentine’s Day, from a US-based biotechnology firm. It {couples} attraction with different qualities. Alan says: “I received the marketing email below. I’ve never been offered a ‘complimentary breeding pair of genetically modified mice’ for Valentine’s Day before. What says romance more than gazing into your mouse’s eyes, over a Bunsen burner flame, before implanting a tumour and humanely euthanising it a few weeks later?” …
- Political restraint — … The BMJ (previously formally known as The British Medical Journal) makes medical observe of stories experiences that prime minister Rishi Sunak “fasts for 36 hours at the beginning of every week”. Sunak’s previous and current medical knowledge may intrigue and encourage physicians, psychologists and vitamin researchers. Over time, does the physique in proof inflate or deflate? How a lot of that inflation or deflation may be attributed to the chief’s first-person administration of meals? More full knowledge could already be available in regards to the results and effectiveness of self-imposed restraint (or at base, self-claimed restraint) by former prime minister David Cameron, who held workplace and his urine from 2010 to 2016….
- Down the tarantula gap — … Trilobite researchers nonetheless chatter in regards to the examine “Frontal auxiliary impressions in the Ordovician trilobite Dalmanitina Reed, 1905 from the Barrandian area, Czech Republic“, published a few years ago in the Bulletin of Geosciences. But only the most diligent of them noticed – deep in the references section, at the end of the paper – something unexpected: mention of a paper called “Coupling between the heart and sucking stomach during ingestion in a tarantula”….
- Tender youth — Dave Kirby has observed one other cookbook that, like The Anarchist Cookbook, possibly wants to come back with a warning (Feedback had steered one thing alongside the traces of: “If you don’t cook your anarchist to the proper temperature, there may be problems”)….
- Depending on cats — … A examine from California known as “A comparison of people’s attachments to romantic partners and pet cats,” printed within the journal Anthrozoös, experiences that some folks “did not necessarily need reassurance from their cat or feel distress when their cat was unavailable to them the way they might about a romantic partner”.
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