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Spaced out

Have you even seen a murmuration? A huge mass of starlings synchronising their movements as an enigmatic, contorting organism. It’s a graceful feat of mass cooperation, each bird turning and moving in time with the next. The starling shares its personal space with strangers well. I wonder if animals
Richard Allardice Oct 12, 2015

My kinda cuppa

Some of us prefer coffee, others tea. What does our choice of brew say about us? Nineteenth-century French novelist Honoré de Balzac reputedly drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day towards the end of his (short) life. He sometimes had to eat dry coffee grounds to get his
Richard Allardice Apr 27, 2015

Delivering the goods

1906 one-penny Christchurch Exhibition claret stamp In 1964, two young renegades found a wallet containing £50 (“found” in the sense that they saw a couple drop it in their haste to shed their clothes and escape into some bushes). They promptly spent this small fortune: around £15 on lollies, and
Richard Allardice Dec 9, 2012

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