“It has been an embarrassment to science, and I think an embarrassment for Princeton.”
Robert Park, a physicist at the University of Maryland, on the closure of Princeton University’s Engineering Anomalies Research programme, which for 28 years has tried to demonstrate that human thoughts can affect machine behaviour (The New York Times, 10 February)
“If you can take a midday nap, do so.”
Dimitrios Trichopoulos of the Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of a study in Greece showing that the death rate in people who take siestas is two-thirds that of people who don’t (The Seattle Times,…
