Science Fact: Your kitchen design is making you fat! OK, maybe with diligent effort we could make ourselves fat anyway. But scientists find that kitchen design strongly affects our eating habits. This is true even if we conscientiously try to … Continue reading
Science Fact: The depiction of horses in paintings raises questions touching both science and art: the nature of the real world, and the way we portray it. Figurative painting – painting that is clearly derived from a real-world scene – is … Continue reading
Science Fact: GMO, genetically modified organisms, are a hot topic for many people. Kiwifruit grows strictly with conventional farming – totally non-GMO – yet the growers take advantage of modern genetic technology. How can this be? It’s an interesting story … Continue reading
(Non) Science Fact: Unusual jobs are a media standby for slow-news days. And journalists vie to outdo each other in finding odd jobs that will grab the reader’s attention. However, sometimes unusual jobs appear in the course of a regular news … Continue reading