The Colour on the Back of Your Shirt Has Nothing to Do With Football
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The Colour on the Back of Your Shirt Has Nothing to Do With Football
Think about the colour of your team's kit. Really think about it. You probably feel something about it – a…
The Oak Tree Is Running a Hotel It Never Asked to Build
Stand next to a decent oak – one of the old ones, with bark you could lose your fist in…
The Best Part of the Holiday Is Before You’ve Packed a Bag
There is a moment, usually about three weeks before a holiday, when everything is still perfect. The hotel has not…
Your Brain Is Doing the Hard Part While You’re Watching Telly
There's a moment every keen self-improver knows well. You've spent two hours on a Tuesday evening working through a new…
Your Automatic Gearbox Is Making Decisions Before You’ve Finished Thinking
You press the accelerator. A gear changes. Simple, right? Except between those two events, something happened faster than your brain…
The Clock That Starts the Moment You Say “Here, Take This”
Somewhere in Britain right now, an older parent is handing over a cheque to their adult child – towards a…
The Bird That Never Forgets Your Face (And Will Tell Everyone)
There is a crow in Seattle that hates a specific scientist. Not crows in general, not humans broadly – this…
The Town That Ran Out of House Numbers
In the 1970s, a computer scientist called Vint Cerf sat down and invented the addressing system that would eventually run…
Your Brain Thinks Learning Is Trying To Kill You
Imagine sitting down to a blank exam paper. Heart rate up, palms damp, a quiet but insistent feeling that something…
The Parliament in Your Belly
You probably think of yourself as a single organism with opinions, a commute, and a complicated relationship with cheddar. You…
The Country That Put Itself in the Wrong Time Zone
Spain should, by rights, be on the same time as the UK. Look at a map: Madrid sits at roughly…
The Test Isn’t the End of Learning. It’s Where Learning Actually Happens.
Think about the last time you had to remember a name you'd half-forgotten. Someone from school, a colleague from years…