FACT: 89% of the statistics you read online or in the media are misinterpreted or misrepresented. A petition to ban plastic water bottles from the Leeds University Union Co-op gained traction in early March, securing […]
Get the Fact Out
In the current age of post-truth, flat-earthers and alternative facts, it’s worth bearing in mind where we would be without objective reasoning. Science as an instrument is the finest honed tool that humans have ever […]
The Lunar-cy of Moons
Mini-Moon fact-lets: Moon rocks are magnetised which is weird as the Moon has no magnetic field itself, scientists are still confused as to how this happened as a ‘close call’ with Earth would have ripped […]
10 things that will make you go ‘What the Dickens!’ about Dickens
From A Muppet’s Christmas Carol to the current televised series on the BBC – Dickensian, Charles Dickens’ works continue to be immortalised. On the 7th of February, Charles Dickens turned 204 years old and continues […]