Issue 2281 | Magazine cover date: 10 March 2001

10 March 2001

Issue 2281

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Features

Playing fair

News

Pee to win

Opinion

Westminster Diary

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Playing fair

Features

Love's flavours lost

Features

Charmed, I'm sure

Features

The omega man

Features

Free speech, Liberty, Pornography

Features

News

Technology

Pee to win

Carl Rennie Davis of Stourbridge has another reason for men to waste more time in bars: a peeing contest built into the urinals. A vertical row of lamps is controlled by a paddle wheel hidden in the waste pipe (GB 2351453). The longer someone pees past the wheel, the more lamps light up. The electronics …

News

How a bigger bottom makes you more desirable

News

Toppling tellies

News

Dynamo support

News

Fast-track fruit

News

Simple recipe

News

Wrong place

News

Technology

Close calls

News

Technology

Foiled again

News

Quit or die, says talking cigarette packet

News

How pilots can steer clear of erupting volcanoes

News

Trick of the light

News

Snowball fight

News

Star-struck van Gogh kept his eye on the sky

News

Saved by Sponge Man

News

Down among the bugs

News

Written off

News

Robochute has landed

News

Log on, check up

News

Feel it in your fingers

News

Slow down

News

A is for aardvark

News

Setting sail

News

Unite against malaria

News

NEAR the end

News

Sick to the stomach

News

Take two killers

News

When a new house is positively sickening

News

Slip sliding away

News

Being in good company helps fermions cool off

News

Earth

Shattering the greenhouse

News

Fears of BSE epidemic in sheep prove unfounded

News

Deep trouble

News

Is baby 'medicine' laced with poison?

News

Vintage weather

News

Year of the rat

News

It's back

News

Address withheld

News

Breathe easy

News

Safety in numbers

News

Fingers crossed ...

News

No great shakes

News

Relax, your chances of being pulverised are tiny

News

Guilty as charged

News

Houston, we have no money

News

Opinion

Westminster Diary

AUSTRALIAN researchers who wanted to create a contraceptive vaccine to control mouse numbers almost created a monster in the process (13 January, p 3) . The scientists at the CSIRO Wildlife Division and the Australian National University, working in Canberra, modified a mousepox virus to include the gene for a biologically active protein called interleukin …

Opinion

Living within our means

Opinion

An unholy war

Opinion

Bollywood or bust

Opinion

Give us a plan

Opinion

Think first, cut later

Opinion

Features

Playing fair

SUPPOSE I hand you a bundle of cash equivalent to a week's salary and say you can have it, but on the condition that you share the money with someone else. I'm not saying who, but it's someone you know. On the plus side, your anonymity is guaranteed, and you can offer as much or …

Features

Love's flavours lost

Features

Charmed, I'm sure

Features

The omega man

Features

Free speech, Liberty, Pornography

Features

Richard Fortey

Novels with scientific themes can be convincing even if the science isn't. Take Jim Crace's Being Dead (Penguin, 2000). It traces the history of two corpses, partly through the parasites that feed on them. Its microbial heroes were good enough to fool palaeontologist Richard Fortey of London's Natural History Museum. It's an even better book …

Books & Arts

Mary Archer

Books & Arts

In the Realm of the Weird

Books & Arts

Return to the Lost Continent

Books & Arts

All my Own Work

Books & Arts

Look Up and Wonder

Books & Arts

A faint flap of wings

Books & Arts

Seas of delight

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

WE HAVE only just become aware of a splendid website set up by Digital Freedom Network back on 28 September 2000. It gives the results of a "foil the filter" contest aimed at illustrating the unreliability of censorware—software designed to filter out undesirable material on the Internet. The grand prize went to Joe J., who …

This week's magazine

10 March 2001

On the cover

Playing fair

Love's flavours lost

Charmed, I'm sure

The omega man

Free speech, Liberty, Pornography

Table of contents

News

Technology

Pee to win

How a bigger bottom makes you more desirable

Toppling tellies

Dynamo support

Fast-track fruit

Simple recipe

Wrong place

Technology

Close calls

Technology

Foiled again

Quit or die, says talking cigarette packet

How pilots can steer clear of erupting volcanoes

Trick of the light

Snowball fight

Star-struck van Gogh kept his eye on the sky

Saved by Sponge Man

Down among the bugs

Written off

Robochute has landed

Log on, check up

Feel it in your fingers

Slow down

A is for aardvark

Setting sail

Unite against malaria

NEAR the end

Sick to the stomach

Take two killers

When a new house is positively sickening

Slip sliding away

Being in good company helps fermions cool off

Earth

Shattering the greenhouse

Fears of BSE epidemic in sheep prove unfounded

Deep trouble

Is baby 'medicine' laced with poison?

Vintage weather

Year of the rat

It's back

Address withheld

Breathe easy

Safety in numbers

Fingers crossed ...

No great shakes

Relax, your chances of being pulverised are tiny

Guilty as charged

Houston, we have no money

Opinion

Westminster Diary

Living within our means

An unholy war

Bollywood or bust

Give us a plan

Think first, cut later

Features

Playing fair

Love's flavours lost

Charmed, I'm sure

The omega man

Free speech, Liberty, Pornography

More

Richard Fortey

Mary Archer

In the Realm of the Weird

Return to the Lost Continent

All my Own Work

Look Up and Wonder

A faint flap of wings