A Whole New You

SCIENTIFIC breakthroughs don’t always grab the attention they deserve. They are often in esoteric areas of speciality and it’s difficult for us plebs to understand their importance.

“A new species of salamander in Borneo? Yeah, whatever; someone’s isolated the ‘pwarkle’ — a new sub-atomic particle that only exist on Tuesdays? Give me a shout when they’re available in supermarkets.” But now and then science will make a breakthrough in an area that we can understand.

Our interest is piqued usually because it contains a word that was only previously mentioned in movies. “Lexus have made an actual hoverboard? Now THAT’s science! NASA found unusual dotted lines on Pluto? It’s Aliens!”