Things I learned today from the New Scientist magazine:
- Last year 13 million people watched whales in 119 countries
- Almost a quarter of Londoners are creationists, believing that God created life in its current form
- A Taser manufacturer has just tripled the range to 30 metres
- Male muriqui monkeys queue patiently to mate with females
- Sperm damage is 12 per cent lower in men who have sex every day
- A 16-year-old girl in the US is equivalent in size and mental development to an 11-month-old baby
- Out of 46 women of the Hazda forager tribe in Tanzania, only one preferred “big” men.
- Light-bending metamaterials may one day be used to create an “invisibility cloak”
- About 60 million people live within 1 metre of mean sea level, and they’ll end up with wet feet by the year 2100.
