“I don’t want to read this book”
I got home the other day to find a bit of standoff between the wife and step-daughter. Alex was trying to get Izzie, 6, to read her school book. She didn't want
Going off piste?
Green, Blue, Red and Black. The colour coding of different difficulties of ski runs. There are, of course, different variations - double diamond blacks, etc. But that's the general concept of grading official
Which made more money?
Imagine you've got some money to invest. You're going to invest it in a 25 year fund. You can change how it's invested when you like. And you have the option of how
He tattooed it on himself
You seen the 2000 film Memento with Guy Pearce? Follows the story of a guy with no medium or long term memory. After a head injury, he's incapable of remembering new things
10% of brain and Mozart effect
Have you heard that we only use 10% of our brain? Or that playing Mozart to babies is good for their development due to the structure matching our brains' structure? Both fairly
Denial equals death
Several years ago I remember reading an article about a fairly famous sportsman who'd just died. In the article it explained that, several years earlier, he'd entered rehab. And had, in an
Why are unhealthy things so tasty?
I mentioned the their week about how you can sometimes come to a realisation so powerful, it stops you in your tracks. That blog started with me realising why things are
Columbus saw mermaids
It's 1493. It's not, obviously. Just what people write to make you imagine it's that year, innit? You're Christopher Columbus. ## See above ## You see some mermaids from your boat. You write in the ship's
R Kelly was right
A quick Google has shown me that is, amazingly, two decades since American R&B artist R Kelly released the song "I believe I can fly". Amazing / depressing that. But, of course,