Your Letters
17:04 UK time, Friday, 28 August 2009
Wow, it sure was tough getting seven points in this week's . The fact there were only six questions may have had something to do with it.
Adam, London, UK
Monitor note: Apologies. An earlier version included a question based on a widely reported news story about The Wire that turned out to be a hoax. A new seventh question is now present and correct.
I see that nominative determinism also applies to .
David Richerby, Leeds, UK
Re - while Marek Kukula may well be a brilliant astronomer, he apparently has a limited imagination based on the quotation - "It is one of the few things where we can go out into our own gardens and do it ourselves."
Luke, Edinburgh
Shocking news! Next week's stunning revelation: movie goers eat more popcorn than people who don't go to the cinema?
Justie, London
Roger Pickard's Spanglish "hand grenade" ice cream will probably proved to be pomegranate (Thursday's letters).
Nuno Aragao, Aveiro, Portugal
The researchers at IBM didn't notice, but this also has the property that it moves while you're looking away from it reading the article, but stops as soon as you look directly at it.
John Bratby, Southampton
Did they shear or dip it I wonder.
Malcolm, Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom
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