Enigma: To change or not to … UNCLE Delroy had £3 for each of his nephews Sam and Tom and his niece Anna. For each child Uncle Delroy changed the money into 300 pence. He gave them 300 tests and they got a penny for each test they succeeded at. Each test involved three boxes labelled 1, 2 and 3. While the … News
Not by our genes alone IF WE are to believe the claims of some American lawyers, the criminal underworld is populated by "natural born killers" whose violent behaviour is genetically preprogrammed. In Georgia, a convicted murderer called Stephen Mobley, who shot a pizza parlour cashier, is now appealing to the state's Supreme Court, arguing that he suffers from a genetically … Opinion
Space mission impossible ONE HUNDRED years from now, a space probe the size of an ice hockey puck will coast silently past an insignificant star system in a remote corner of the Milky Way galaxy. A collection of microscopic cameras and sensors will record the star system's intimate behaviour and the data will be beamed home using an … Features
All gas and toothpicks in Congress WHEN China threw out the last of Mao Tse-tung's minions in the late 1970s and ushered in a new set of leaders, the Chinese coined a new phrase. Whatever privation was noted – no spare parts for trains, unsafe conditions in coal mines, empty shelves in shops – they would simply say: "Yes, the Gang … Forum
Feedback MANY readers will by now have come across the Benetton quarterly magazine Colors, with its focus on the weird and wonderful. The winter issue is on the theme of shopping, and lists bizarre things that you can buy around the world, ranging from rubber feet (for foot fetishists) and stained women's underwear (popular among males … Regulars