"Chocolate consumption could hypothetically improve cognitive function not only in individuals but in whole populations. Could there be a correlation between a country’s level of chocolate consumption and its total number of Nobel laureates per capita? A tongue-in-cheek report from Columbia University’s Dr. Frank Messerli looks at the issue."
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Profile: Ewan Birney Science 7 September 2012: Vol. 337 no. 6099 pp. 1167-1169DOI:10.1126/science.337.6099.1167. Summary · Full Text · Full Text (PDF). The world’s leading scientific journal, 1997-Cur…
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"We've got a big problem," he said, when he saw the trays of water and realised nothing had happened to them. "This is a completely rubbish experiment."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19813295
A live experiement to see if boiling water freezes more quickly than cold water was described as a “shambles” by Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman, after neither froze at all.
Paxman: TV experiment is ‘shambles’
A live experiement to see if boiling water freezes more quickly than cold water was described as a “shambles” by Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman, after neither froze at all.
The Britishisation of American English
There appears to be little that irks a British language pedant more than Americanisms entering the British vocabulary. But it is also happening the other way round.
