Monkey Tale

13 Jan

How are television ratings collected and measured?

This is one of those questions that has bothered me a bit for a while until I found the answer, now I am more bothered. Think about the question before I give you the answer. How do TV broadcasters report that say 10 million people watched a certain soap opera on TV yesterday?
Although Television sets […]

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16 Sep

Slime-mould aggregation

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 they work together to form a […]

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