Emmental cheese has a lot of holes, all different sizes, and randomly distributed through the cheese. One supermarket I visit regularly sells 400g blocks of it in vacuum-wrappers. How do they know,...
A few years ago, there was an advert on British TV which featured Angus Deayton standing in a lively city workplace. One of the lines he used in it was 'It's not all skateboards, baguettes and girls...
I've noticed that when I'm listening to music on my earphones, when I remove them, the pitch of the music I can still hear from the earphones changes downwards by about a semitone. When my earphones...
Scientists and philosophers frequently claim that the universe is infinite, and I am pretty much in support of that view. The most plausible theory is that it is 'finite but unbounded'. However, one...
I've often noticed that when 2 shadows approach each other, just before they meet there seems to be a sort of 'reaching out' to each other. It's as if they are being gravitationally drawn to each...
The term Chelsea Tractor has become widely accepted in the last few years as a derogatory term for those horrid, monster 4x4s that clog up the streets nowadays. A few weeks ago, I heard Frank Skinner...
Why are our noses divided into 2 nostrils? I appreciate that we hear and see with 2 ears / eyes, because the stereo images received give us a sense of position and distance - but there would seem to...
Anybody know what this phrase means? (The spelling is optional). Not sure where or when I first heard it, or if I was just in an illegal state of mind and misheard something somebody said, but it...
As BROTHER is to FRATERNITY, and SISTER is to SORORITY... So what's the equivalent for SIBLING? I don't think there is one - at least, none of my friends can think of one. Anyone want to venture a new...
On a recent edition of BBC2's Horizon series, entitled Why Do Viruses Kill?, I was hit between the eyes with a truly astounding piece of information. One of the contributors to the programme put a...
When you open a bottle of beer, soda pop or champagne, there is an immediate rush of bubbles to the top of the liquid. But they keep on coming for many hours, and I was wondering if there is any...
Here's an interesting question that cropped up in conversation last night. We were talking about monkey nuts - the natural version of peanuts in shells, and it occurred to me that it's a bit strange...
A couple of slightly daft questions: 1: I've had many cats during my lifetime, and I've noticed that every one of them, when it's dozing peacefully (usually most of the time) and you say its name, the...
This heading seemed to be the only one that was vaguely appropriate - so let's give it a try: When I was a kid, in the 50s and early 60s, you could get a little grey message/drawing board which was...
"Space is what stops everything from being in the same place" "Time is what stops everything from happening at once" "Space cannot be infinite - if it was, there would not be any matter in it" Anybody...
