Do It Now
Put one hand flat on a table, palm down, fingers spread.
Now fold the middle finger under, so that it tucks beneath the palm and the middle…
Maya Linton
A crustacean with gills that drinks through its back end and moults in halves. Here are twelve.
1. It Is Not an Insect
Almost everybody files it with the beetles…
It was everywhere, then it was not, and nobody has settled why. Here are ten.
1. It Was So Common That Nobody Ever Looked at One
For most of recorded…
Hold both arms straight out in front of you and make a small triangle between your thumbs and forefingers, about the size of a coin.
Keeping both eyes open, move…
The first thing to abandon is the picture of a knot gradually working its way loose over the course of a walk, getting a little slacker with every step until…
Almost every bone in the body is connected to other bones. It meets them at joints, it is held by ligaments running bone to bone, and its position is fixed…