Paula Harrington

Retired editor who loves puzzles and scientific thinking that helps to solve life's puzzles.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball @NautilusMag Thank you! This wonderful overview refreshed my half-remembered, piecemeal, self-taught knowledge and also put it in an explanatory context. It's what I wish I'd learned at school (where it wasn't mentioned in the 70s).

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball Possibly from Breaking the Spell, by Thomas S. Cowan, a Covid conspiracy theorist. A friend sent me a PDF, which I glanced through for a laugh (and sigh). Here's an extract.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball It was a fabulously engaging lecture. Stunned by your depth of knowledge. Thank you!

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@NautilusMag @philipcball Thanks and hugs.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball Could it have a market as a book for adults, perhaps slightly rewritten? I'm thinking of Science for Dummies kind of thing. Suggested title: What Makes the World Go Round? Science for Sciencephobes.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball Fabulous!

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball Thanks. I didn't know that about MRI scanners.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@ResearchDigest @UniofOxford I didn't know nightmares could be treated. Do you have a link to something that explains how?

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball Unreadable.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@StuartJRitchie Thanks! I did wonder when I read the news stories.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@AdamRutherford I was taught this, so I'd be interested to learn why it's wrong. Is there an article that explains, in simple terms, why inheriting two copies of the blue-eye gene does not always result in blue eyes?

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@Carol1neTweets According to Google Lens, it's a cockchafer beetle, also known as a maybug.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@Carol1neTweets With that noise they make? Are you serious?

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball There's a good reason. Italics are hard to read for people with some visual impairments and also dyslexia. Banning them is an accessibility measure. Ditto block capitals.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball I'd worry most about the link.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball I'll warn my cat.

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@OVOEnergy Beyond angry. I pay monthly by meter reading. Got bill today at 10am. At 2pm got email about my "debt" being "overdue" and that it could affect my credit rating! You just want to force me to pay by direct debit, don't you? Never!

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

Beyond angry @OVOEnergy. I pay monthly by meter reading. Got bill today at 10am. At 2pm got email about my "debt" being "overdue" and that it could affect my credit rating! You just want to force me to pay by direct debit, don't you? Never!

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@philipcball None. ☹

[Paula Harrington @plainpaula]

@Carol1neTweets My guess is the shark, if indeed the two ever met in an estuary (since crocs don't swim out to sea). A croc kills its prey by drowning.