That wide-eyed look reveals one sad cow IF YOU want to know whether a cow is stressed, look into its eyes. Researchers at the Agricultural University of Norway in Äs took 24 Norwegian red cattle and starved them for seven hours. Half the cows were then fed, while the others were shown food but not allowed to eat. Following this "food tease", … 51¶¯Âþ
Humans Westminster diary THIS magazine recently had the temerity to report that under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 the government wants common-or-garden government departments to have snooper's rights to cyberspace data (51¶¯Âþ, 22 June, p 3) . I put the claim to Michael Wills, junior Home Office minister for IT and e-government policy, to gauge … Opinion
Boy or girl? LAST March Helen Lang had her fourth child, Catherine. It was a shock for her and her husband Chas and his family, who were convinced the new arrival would be another boy. Chas is one of three brothers, and between them they have produced six sons. Catherine is the first girl on Chas's side of … Features
American beauties Trilobites of New York by Thomas Whiteley, Gerald Kloc and Carlton Brett, Cornell University Press, $55, ISBN 0801439698 Reviewed by Richard Fortey ONCE amazingly abundant and varied, trilobites have been described as "the beetles of the Palaeozoic". They swarmed in their millions in and round the seas of the early Cambrian, 545 million years ago, … Books & Arts
Feedback SILLY theory of the week comes via the Japanese news site Mainichi, which features "saucy stories from Japan's wild weeklies". ( http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai ). According to Rikao Yanagida, described by Mainichi as "head of a think tank", the dinosaurs died out not because of an asteroid impact but because they made too much noise when they … Regulars