Monthly Archives: May 2013

Bugs, boids an’ ‘ting’

Posted on May 30, 2013 by sciencepolice2010

A little preliminary bonus: the following snippet is ten words, totaling 45 letters between them 🙂 : The average word is between four and five letters long Now on to the serious stuff… The six-minute walk to the local supermarket … Continue reading →

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Why does your breath get colder when your mouth hole is smaller?

Posted on May 17, 2013 by sciencepolice2010

On “In Our Time“, Radio 4, on Thursday 16th May 2013, about 17 minutes in, we were reminded of the old controversy of people changing the temperature of their breath at will, as for example in “the Aesop’s fable“? Actually, … Continue reading →

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Darryl Holman

Posted on May 10, 2013 by sciencepolice2010

The problem of Darryl Holman has started to be addressed.

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Lifestyle of vodroms, e.g. Microraptor, revisited

Posted on May 8, 2013 by sciencepolice2010

The “Microraptor also ate fish” thread on the dinosaur mailing list started a few days ago because the small highly-feathered four-winged Velociraptor-relative had been found with fish inside it. (In fact, I think now we’ve had a pretty representative sample … Continue reading →

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