Are you busy? We all ask one another all the time - and we all are

Well that’s good news. Maybe I can relax a little. You see they reckon slacking can be evolutionarily advantageous.

‘They’ being scientists of course, from the university of Kansas. They reckon this because they studied 300 breeds of mollusc that lived and died in the Atlantic over the last five million years.

(The molluscs lived and died over the last five million years. The researchers weren’t studying them for that length of time.)