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How to easily find the GTA trilogy (and other games) on Netflix
Netflix just released its biggest games yet. The Grand Theft Auto trilogy — which includes GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas — is now available on both iOS and Android, and the games are all free to play if you’re already a Netflix subscriber. But while the streaming service has offered mobile games for…
‘Abdominal perimeters’ increase over holiday season, find researchers
Increasing perimeters Some people are big on holidays – bigger than they were before those holidays. A team at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University of Valladolid, Spain, sized up some first-year undergraduate nursing students, then wrote about it in a paper called “Preliminary study of the increase in health science students’ body…
Searching for stardust: How to find micrometeorites in your gutters
Dust left over from the birth of the solar system is constantly falling to Earth Getty Images/iStockphoto IT WAS a warm summer morning in the countryside near Oslo and Jon Larsen decided to have breakfast outdoors. He carefully wiped down the white plastic table on his patio and went inside to collect his meal. Then,…
Killing pigeons ‘not in their best interests’, find pigeon ethicists
Best interests at heart? Feedback is fascinated by the final eight words in this statement: “Disadvantages include the competitive element associated with racing, which creates a strong incentive to kill birds where this is not in their best interests.” The statement appears in a study called “The ethics of pigeon racing” by Jan Deckers and…
Can Rock Dust Soak Up Carbon Emissions? A Giant Experiment Is Set to Find Out
Mary Yap has spent the last year and a half trying to get farmers to fall in love with basalt. The volcanic rock is chock full of nutrients, captured as its crystal structure forms from cooling magma, and can make soil less acidic. In that way it’s like limestone, which farmers often use to improve…
We now know why we find some jokes funny – thanks to Seinfeld
The popular sitcom Seinfeld has helped scientists understand how we appreciate humour Castle Rock Entertainment/Courtesy Everett Collection/Alamy What starts as a simple knock-knock joke can light up different regions of your brain, depending on whether you find the gag funny or just understand it. Scientists gained a better appreciation of this process after monitoring people…