I'm writing an essay on the interaction between genes and environment in mental illness. I've to explain what is meant by the terms genotype, phenotype and heritability, the relationship between these...
I placed a food order with a company for Xmas. I've used them once before. Some of the veg wasn't very good so I emailed them a photo and they replied saying they would credit me £10 which I thought...
The ceiling lights in two of the rooms downstairs in my home are controlled from a three-gang wall switch in the hall. The additional gang operates the hall ceiling light. I want to add an...
A colleague of mine has just shown me the title of an employee .
'Information Architect'
What other weird and wonderful titles have you come across ?...
A shrub, over 2 metres high, with a very simple shaped leaf, mid-green, slightly shiny with deep lines, about 5/6cm long, not thought to be deciduous; no flower yet discovered. Stems a bit like...
I was supplied a few years back with a bog standard modem router by my ISP, TalkTalk. The wifi signal was not reaching everywhere in the house, so I recently bought a DLink DIR-890L router to boost...
I have something called a UPVC Fascia Board on the window cill of a kitchen window. The profile of the board is like a capital "L" in shape and it's glued to the old wooden windowsill that sits...
How do you remove old tile cement from the back a tile which has come off the wall? Is it just a case of chipping away, hoping not to break the tile, or is there an easier way?
Corrie big car drama having to keep with Emmerdale. Kevin and co tried to get Gary and Anna out surely they should have waited for emergency services as critical to move people in these situations...
Why isnt Simon Cowell & Holly Willoughby on the new five pound note? They seem to represent the UK these days, surely they are our National Treasures? What about Amanda Holden & Philip Scoffield on...
I have a splinter in my finger that I cannot get hold of to pull out. I seem to remember hearing somewhere that there is something you can put on it to draw it out. Is there any truth in this idea?
I took my cousin for dinner and she picked two thick bacon chops with a white sauce. She loved them. I have perused the hotel's menu but can'find the white sauce. Would it have been mustard or would...
Norton icon on taskbar is ticked but will only respond to a Rt click but then if any item on it is clicked, (eg Open Norton) the menu disappears. Later a Norton 'Error Found' screen appears and works...
I've been put on Prednisolone at a dose of 30mg (6 x 5mg tablets) as a single dose in the morning for gout treatment. I can't take NSAID's and my previous treatment, Colchicine, is regarded as...
Yesterday, the family sold a property at auction previously occupied by a relative. We assumed that following the downfall of the hammer, the property was effectively owned by the new buyer. Yet...
I've just saved a jpeg image on my new laptop to send it via email. On attaching it to the email, I noticed that the image is saved in Paint format, which seems to be pre-installed with W8. Does this...
I have a Sky box, a Talktalk Youview box and an LG smart TV. At the moment, I only have one ethernet cable from the router at the back of the TV terminated by the standard RJ45 plug. I need to connect...