Life Let airport staff 'kill' baddies for better security Here's a novel way to improve airport security: get baggage screeners to blast video game baddies in their spare time. That's the message from Mathias Fleck and Stephen Mitroff of Duke University at Durham, North Carolina, who have discovered that playing action computer games gives people a sharper eye for finding target objects on a … 51¶¯Âþ
Health Comment: America's lost children FOR more than a century, the infant mortality rate – the proportion of babies who die before their first birthday – has stood as a primary measure not just of health, but of a nation or region's economic and social functioning. Industrialised countries with stable governments, high employment and adequate health and welfare systems do … Opinion
Life Histories: Dynamite in Paradise In the 1870s, New Guinea was one of the last unexplored places on Earth. Since its discovery by Europeans in 1545, visiting traders and missionaries had stuck to the coast – and with good reason. The densely forested interior was stalked by tropical diseases and home to hostile headhunters. For Luigi d'Albertis, an Italian hunter … Features
Review: Beyond the Black Box, by George Bibel IF, DESPITE the green backlash against aviation, you still plan to fly regularly, don't read this book. That's not a criticism: a book on the physics behind air crash investigations was never likely to be a pretty read. The 1001 potential points of failure in an aircraft – including structural failure, exploded engines, fuel starvation, … Books & Arts
Feedback Content-free marketing EXTRAORDINARY claims aimed at gullible people are distressingly common. Less common are utterly incomprehensible claims aimed at... well, who knows? Andrew Hemsley finds P.W.B. Special One Drop Liquid unusual in that it is almost impossible to work out what it's supposed to do. According to www.tinyurl.com/388k4n , it "possesses a most extraordinary property. … Regulars