Flies are like sheep: They seem to follow their leader, without it being clear which of them is their leader. This was my conclusion from watching flies approaching the flypaper I hung in my bedroom recently. Our house in the country is invaded by insects every year, a different species, or at most two species, taking it in turns, as if by ...
Hard to believe it was just four years ago that Joe Biden was elected with a promise to unite the country. After the misery of COVID-19 deaths and ...
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Such were the age-old policy recommendations of the Three Wise Monkeys, since adopted by the total chimps ...
The thing that made Kamala’s cackle so irritating was that she’d do it when nobody else in the room was laughing. “I know, right? It’s ...
Children can sometimes be very cruel—but also very inventive. When I was a schoolboy myself during the 1990s, there was a performatively ...
Earlier this year, in one of the most absurd court rulings in modern times, federal judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google violated U.S. antitrust law by ...
A £100 million bat protection tunnel being built in the U.K. might be utterly pointless, except that it brings a wonderful new phrase into the ...
