Richard Yonck joins me to discuss his latest book, Future Minds.

The European Union executive is reviving plans for mandatory quotas of women on company boards, amid slowing progress towards gender equality among top management.

The EU commissioner for equality, Helena Dalli, told journalists that quotas “can be a very ugly word” but were also “a necessary evil, in the sense we have to use quotas because otherwise we will wait another 100 years for things to change by themselves”.

European-listed firms could face fines if fewer than 40% of their non-executive board seats are taken by women.

Circa 2018

Is water wet? – The Answer Wall.

I provided this answer last week: Wetness is a perception, not an objective fact, and perceptual clues for wetness are actually not so straightforward, as you can see in this physiology article: bit.ly/wetness-perception. So, is water wet? Sorta maybe.

A Centurylink outage has taken out multiple web services including Amazon, Hulu, Playstation Network, etc for much of the world.

This amphibious 8×8 ATV can seat your whole expedition team 😎👏

Dogs and cats don’t see as clearly as humans—and they’re lacking in the color department—but they can see movement much better than we can.

Circa 2011

This National Geographic honey badger video, with a hilarious voiceover from “Randall,” went viral a few months ago. Seriously, though, why can the honey badger wake up from a cobra bite and be on his merry way? And why can it get stung repeatedly by a swarm of bees and “not give a shit?”