Technology Netropolitan – Far side IF the Scientologists aren't surreal enough for your taste, take a look at what the entomologists are up to. These folk are numerous among the fans of the cartoonist Gary Larson (who is also popular in Netropolitan's office) because of his usually careful attention to the details of insects. Since Larson's retirement was announced earlier … News
A matter of life and death FOR a few brief hours last Friday, it looked as though the law courts in London were going to make a stand against the rational calculus of the health service. In the High Court, Mr Justice Laws ruled that the Cambridge Health Authority had been wrong to refuse to pay for further treatment for a … Opinion
Juggling by Numbers MATHEMATICS and music, it is said, often go together. Mathematicians are also reputed to be unusually good at chess. But there is a less well-known activity that also enjoys a time-honoured association with mathematics: juggling. Although the connection may seem tenuous at first sight, there has recently been a rush to apply mathematics to juggling, … Features
The Big and the Small THE SIZE of an organism places many limits on its shape, physiology and behaviour, often in surprising ways. For instance, if we were scaled down to the size of mice by the absent-minded inventor from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, we could happily fall from a cliff safe in the knowledge that after a bump, … Inside Science
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Feedback WHAT does an ultra-miniature digital panel meter make you think of? An enormous pair of breasts? This, apparently is what it makes Lascar Electronics think of, since the company's publicity material for its new DPM3 meter shows the gadget dangling in a woman's cleavage between her bared nipples. Lascar is duly nominated for Feedback's "most … Regulars