Category: Feeling good
Review: we set the phone from The Apprentice a series of tasks
Image source: BBC Apprentice Frankly, if you’d told us last month that we’d be reviewing a landline phone, we’d have laughed you out of the office. But when we were given the chance to try not just any landline phone, but the one from The Apprentice – well, how could we refuse? This couldn’t be just…
Watch your back: Crows are smarter than anyone realised
Scientists (and Alfred Hitchcock) already knew that crows were clever, able to differentiate between and remember human faces, as well as using tools and having their own sophisticated form of communication (French, n'est-ce pas?). Now Russian researchers have found that crows are also capable of advanced relational thinking, alongside apes, monkeys, and oh yes, us.…
Wine ice cream exists, and you can get drunk on it
The universe has heard your prayers.Your favourite two guilty pleasures – ice cream and wine – have come together in a heavenly fusion that can only be described as dangerously brilliant. This isn't wine-flavoured ice cream, oh no. This is eight separate flavours of wine-infused, proper ice cream with a butterfat content of 15% and a proof of…
Energy-efficient housing increases the risk of asthma
Things that are good for the environment often turn out to be good for our health as well, but that’s not always the case. In fact, a new study’s found that when it comes to energy-efficient housing, people are actually more at risk of developing asthma. A research team from the University of Exeter Medical…
NASA parodies Meghan Trainor with ‘All About That Space’
Everyone loves the catchy beat of Meghan Trainor's smash hit 'All About That Bass', but not everyone's been quite as keen on the lyrics. Luckily, NASA's here to save us with their science-themed parody, 'All About That Space', and we love it. Yes, some of the dancing's a bit dodgy and yes, it goes on…
iPads can make penguins procreate (probably)
It’s been a big year for penguins. Not only have they embraced their robot brethren and starred in the best John Lewis Christmas ad of all time, like orangutans before them, they’ve now started using iPads – with unexpected side effects. As Fast Company reports, little magellanic penguins at the Aquarium of the Pacific in…
We tried the 30-second ‘wrapping hack’. It took 6 minutes.
This video of a man speed-wrapping boxes in a Japanese department store has been going crazy on the interwebs: At last, all our problems with wrapping regular-shaped boxes are over! Surely we, too, can flash-wrap our Christmas presents this way? Well, I gave it a go. And you know what? It's impossible. Not only does he do it too…
The BBC’s bringing JK Rowling’s The Cuckoo’s Calling to our screens
The Cuckoo’s Calling is coming to a small screen near you. Once mooted as a possible Hollywood blockbuster, the detective novel JK Rowling published under the pseudonym ‘Robert Galbraith’ is now being adapted by the BBC. Rowling won’t be writing it, but she'll apparently have a lot of input. Last year the literary world was…
How not to be a knob on social media at Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, every creature was tweeting – via touchscreen or mouse... Social media has entrenched itself in Christmas as firmly as sprouts or Michael Bublè, but that doesn't mean it always comes in peace. Here are the most common festive pitfalls to avoid being the knob everyone unfollows…
12 amazing alternative choices for your Christmas playlist
Christmas is coming, so prepare your aural senses for a bombardment of the same selection of Christmas songs we hear every year on repeat. If you want to mix things up a little this year, and have a party playlist that's not exactly the same as everyone else's, here are our top 12 choices. R2D2 We Wish…
