It’s not often you’ll hear excitement about the most disgusting y-fronts, but a group of Aussie scientists have been very excited about the dirty, rotten y-fronts they’ve been sent in recent times. The “Soil Your Undies” research project is designed to assess the soil health around Australia. Apparently cotton y-fronts are the perfect medium to…
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Fake out
I’m sure everyone has seen the footage this week of what appeared to be an American reporter hurriedly closing Porn Hub when going live to report on the election. Nor surprisingly, this turned out to be fake. “Fake news” has become something of a common occurrence in this modern world of social media unfortunately. A…
Don’t believe everything you read
Professionally I’m an environmental scientist. I get frustrated with how political environmental issues have become. With the divisive left and right of politics having drawn a line in the sand where it comes to the environment, it doesn’t seem to matter what the science says anymore. Even worse, the media seem to believe it’s up…
How research works…
I don’t know about you, but when I’m getting ready to start a new book I try and knock off as much research as possible before I start so I don’t get distracted when writing. It still has its pitfalls as this graphic pretty much demonstrates:
A de-caf double half caf… with a twist of lemon
Steve Martin’s order for coffee in LA Story (see title of post) has always stuck with me – because as a non-coffee-drinker the language of Barista is as clear to me as Swahili. With a coffee-swilling heroine, I’ve been frantically doing some research so I don’t mix up my Macchiatoes with my Breves. Lucky for me,…