… here’s a few links to the curious and interesting that I’ve read in the last few days.

Scientists have now worked out why not all chillies are hot. It’s easy logocal stuff; no science required.

How good is your science? Well it’s got to be better than most of the British! Britain’s biggest science misconceptions revealed.

Would You Get a QR Code Tattoo? Would you get any tattoo? Thoughts on why we do this.

I’ve always said Shaun the Sheep would be a good alternative to the lawnmower. Now someone is doing it!

Gawdelpus! Now the government wants every under 11 to have read Harry Potter! FFS why can’t politicians stop meddling in things they don’t understand? Oh, hang on then they’d have nothing to do. No change there then.

Finally I was going to say this could only happen in Japan, but I suspect the Americans could do it as well. It was the “maternity suite” which finally tipped me over the edge! Hopefully we British don’t scrape quite so much off the bottom of the barrel.