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Associated Press caused a twitter hoo-ha when they mistakenly led a lot of their followers to think that there had been yet another air cra...

Recently, English children aged 10-11 had to take their SATs (tests that children take every few years to check the school isn't useless...

Or rather, baboons can learn to recognise words and then learn the frequency of particular letters in them to predict if a new item is a wor...

It was my friend's birthday the other day so we met in a pub for lunch, which is the accepted correct way to celebrate a birthday. Anoth...

That's the main message of this Telegraph article , which did some kind of statistically dodgy survey and found that while 71% of the bo...