A recent scientific study found that women find different male faces attractive depending on where they are in their menstrual cycle. For example, when a woman is ovulating she will prefer a man with...
Yesterday at the reserve. Four or five hundred wigeon on a flooded part of a field. Streaming out of the water into the grass in a solid river of ducks! Suddenly all turn round and run back into the...
Not strictly a question but please reply with any strange bird behaviour you may have seen. Just wanted to let the birdy people know of todays sighting. Driving near High Wycombe- Chilterns (red kite...
Not really a question as such. Are you birdy people aware of this. You might like to have a look at http://www.bto.org/birdatlas/ you can pick a tetrad (2km square) to survey twice a season or enter...
ok- we all sleep, we know it rests our body or it rests our minds or it does something....... but in scientific or medical terms what actually is happenig within our bodies- what actions are taking...
Anyone watch Dear Dierdre on C4 last night? Bit of an eye opener for me- or am I the only one who has no clue what goes on in the internet world. It was the last bit- where people build avatars of...
Well- being casting the occassional glance at Chatterbank since its return- first foray back into it. Looks at first glance to be heading down the old slippery slope the old one did. Is it any better?
We bought a bag of seashells for our grandaughter- obviously imports as they are larger and of differing varieties. All the spiral types- various conches, winkle type, whelk type- have a clockwise...
Two minutes ago I recieved the usual notification of an answer to a question I had posed. Three of them- one after the other- on questions I didnt recognise. So I dialled them up and was suprised to...
It has only recently struck me that though churches have the same basic interior layout- though obviously varying in size, none of them actually look quite the same. Does anyone know about church...
I need to find some decent experiments on any aspect of science for teenagers- got a lot of stuff suitable for younger kids but they are a bit tame for teens- would be nice, but not neccesary, if they...
Ed- please see question titled 'where have all the punters gone' under crosswords in Quizzes and Puzzles...... just why do we hae all these sub-sections to trawl through??? Makes life difficult...
This could go under many Topics- lets try here... Ok- I fit energy efficient light bulbs in my house. It may save me a few bob on the electricity bill over the year but how much does it really do for...
Cowboy rides into town- no one around. Dismounts and goes into the saloon- no one there but the bartender. He orders a dring and says 'where is everyone' 'Ah', says the barman,'they've gone to the...
Seeing the question below prompts me to ask..... do these average spped cameras work? Has anyone here been caught by one? Or know of anyone? Do they work in the dark- can they read a number plate...
