Does the Moon have a postcade (or more likely, a zipcode)? Sounds like a stupid question, but I vaguely recall that on one of the Moon missions back in the early 70s, they took some envelopes or first...
I was thinking of buying one of these - plenty available on Amazon - but suddenly had a moment of apprehension: I keep a very large private archive of audio and video recordings from radio and TV, and...
When you pull those cheesestrings apart, some of the strands that peel off are no more than the thickness of a human hair (and having long hair, I often get them mixed up, and try to eat my hair and...
1st question: When the comedian Dara O'Briain first emerged as a TV personality, his name was always shown with an apostrophe between the O and the B, as is totally commonplace in Irish names....
Watch news reports from anywhere in the world - there's a very good chance that milling around in the background behind the reporter will be a bunch of pigeons. They seem to be ubiquitous. Is there...
It seems that all food cans have rippled sides, and concentric rings on the top and bottom lids. Why is this? Why are they not just plain, smooth metal?
The common picture of the inside of the atom is of extremely tiny particles separated by, on the atomic scale, huge spaces. So what is in these huge spaces? There can only be 2 possibilities: either...
Didn't quite know which category to place this one under, but I guess Science pretty much covers it... This can only ever be a thought experiment, as whatever we believe to be the answer can never be...
I recently spotted in my local Sainsbury's a jar of almond butter, and although it was far more expensive than peanut butter, I decided to lash out and give it a try, and it was very nice. But it set...
What exactly is an itch? I don't mean the kind that's caused by rashes or infections - but just the humdrum, common-or-garden itches we all get and despatch with a quick scratch countless times every...
We all know and love rainbows, and most of us probably know how they are produced - but is there such a thing as a snowbow? Or does the opacity of falling snow prevent the refraction of light through...
If you have a long memory for TV, you may just possibly be able to give me an answer to this: In the mid-70s, there was a previously unknown light-skinned black female singer who attracted the...
If you ask people how long we spend in winter time (GMT) and how long in summer time (BST), most people will automatically say something along the lines of "Well, it's obvious, isn't it - six...
I've often wondered whether our tendency towards right- or left-handed is something that has only developed in the last few thousand years, since we invented handwriting and other activities which...
For the last 2 summers, as the vine and bindweed outside my back windows have flourished, I've had incursions of 2 insects, which I'm not sure about. The first is a bright green grasshopper-like...
