Laziest journalism?

Today I noticed lots of flying ants in my garden, so looked them up to see how they work. I remembered there was a bit of a panic recently in Glasgow and Edinburgh when they were around, so I knew what they were, but didn’t know why they swarm as they do.
The wikipedia article was [...]

PhDs in texting

Even academia is going in for the ‘marketing hype’ route of getting across a message. And just as in the world of government and commerce, there’s no point letting the truth get in the way of a good story.
My dad’s wife told me today that a woman from Birmingham was on TV last night… “she’s [...]