Places of violence and terror often announce themselves early on but, from the air at least, the island of Jolo gives nothing away. I arrived there by the only means of transport allowed to visiting foreigners, a small propeller-driven military plane, which circled before landing, like a nois...
Plants doing mathematics is the latest belly laugh from the crackpot fingest of science. But scientists are human like the rest of us and therefore inclined to see what they want to see