Monkey Tale

I have always been a fan of Richard Dawkins, we share a lot of common beliefs which is ironic when you consider that Dakwins’s book is all about getting rid of beliefs. That’s not strictly true of course, the books aim is to help the reader realise that all beliefs should be based on scientific […]

Last year I saw a fantastic film called Idiocracy. The film illustrates in a most humorous way how things could be in several hundred years if stupid people started breeding at a phenomenal rate while smarter people just worked and worried throughout their lives. In this future, the smartest man on the planet is what […]

Ok, this doesn’t sound as interesting at first as it really is. Dictyostelium discoideum is not really a mould and is only sometimes slimy. In fact its a form of ’social amoeba’.
What is really interesting about it is that normally these amoeba live alone, but when starved of food the work together to form a […]

This is rather a controversial question I know but it is something I have wondered about for a while. Before people start writing in, let me point out that I have lived in the country most of my life so I am no way trying to insult country people. Sorry about the picture, but I […]