A report has confirmed what many have susspected for a long time - that girls have a lead in both verbal, non-verbal and visual skills by the time they start school. The study of 15,000 UK children by the Institute of Education in London showed a two month lead- and that girlswere already pulling ahead...

This is such a daft idea, it's brilliant! The World's first webmail service that uses real snails. RealSnailMail has been set up by a couple of researchers from the National Centre for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University. The RealSnailMail project is essentially a relay for emails, but...