Just add water
KERRY GRAF is invited by the Nourished Life website to wash money down the drain, by way of a shower filter that adds boutique solutions to her daily ablutions.
The Waters Co Therapy Shower Filter Deluxe comes with a reservoir of ascorbic acid, otherwise known as vitamin C, to neutralise any chlorine in the water. The residual ascorbic acid 鈥� sorry, vitamin C 鈥� will guarantee great looking skin, without even requiring you to drink the water.
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The shower head also packs a dose of collagen to flow over your body, unless the hot water turns it into drain-clogging gelatin first.
Nourished Life boasts that a vitamin-enriched collagen-packed shower is the ultimate way to ensure your skin stays hydrated. We find regular water .
鈥淎 generous glitch means the $30 of phone credit purchased by Vik Shah offers unlimited calls 鈥渇or the next 2,915,851 days鈥�, finally expiring on 31 December 9999. A sound investment!鈥�
Material concerns
PREVIOUSLY Feedback stared goggle-eyed as UK MPs passed a vaguely worded law that banned anything that was or could possibly be a drug (14 November 2015). This departure from the harm-reduction principles that previously guided drug legislation (albeit loosely) led to accusations that the government was, in effect, trying to ban Brits from enjoying themselves.
The war on fun continues apace with the shuttering of Fabric, an iconic London nightclub and musical institution. Islington Council justified the move following the drug-related deaths of two patrons, and a visit from undercover officers who noted 鈥渙pen drug use鈥� that was 鈥渁bundantly obvious鈥�.
Although the officers didn鈥檛 actually see anybody buying, selling or taking drugs, the dancers were 鈥渟weating鈥�, 鈥渟taring into space鈥� and had 鈥済lazed red eyes鈥�.
Even though the behaviour on the dance floor at Fabric bore little to distinguish it from the trading floor at the London stock exchange, this was evidence enough for Islington Council to revoke the club鈥檚 licence. Tough on drugs, and tough on things that resemble the effects of drugs?
First in class
FOR some time, Georges Aad has been the foremost name in particle physics. Through his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the French scientist has enjoyed pole position in hundreds of research papers, which famously credit hundreds of authors at a time. As the researchers are listed alphabetically, references to these papers are invariably truncated to Aad, G. et al.
However, to every champion comes a young challenger. Several recent publications by the ATLAS team reveal a shock usurper, with Aad relegated to second place behind a PhD student named Morad Aaboud.
Stitched up
FEELING the chill while on holiday in Nuuk, Greenland, Lee Higbie sends a picture of a knitted jumper that caught his eye. Unfortunately, he says, the discount of 鈥溍�20%鈥� on the sale tag 鈥渆ncouraged me to shop elsewhere.鈥�
Name game
NO MATTER how much we try to abstain, the temptation to revisit nominative determinism always wins, particularly in the face of a flurry of potent examples. Tony Holkham was pleased to discover that the new chairman of . Meanwhile, Chris Hughes finds himself in the parish of St Peter鈥檚 in the village of Lilley, the constituency of one Sir Peter Lilley, MP. And Jonathan Woolrich notes that among the BBC鈥檚 religious correspondents are one Bert Tosh and a Reverend Laurence Twaddle.
Liquid asset
JO PARLAR writes: 鈥淚鈥檝e always felt uncomfortable about the use of 鈥榦rganic鈥� to describe vegetables, as I haven鈥檛 yet encountered an inorganic one. But now to add to my discomfort, my milkman is offering me Highland Spring Organic Water.鈥�
Going, going, gone
IT鈥橲 a small world and getting much smaller, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 鈥淢y local radio station recently aired a science columnist lamenting the loss of wilderness worldwide,鈥� writes Bruce Sankey. 鈥淪he stated that in recent years, 15 per cent of Earth鈥檚 surface has disappeared.鈥�
Thank goodness it wasn鈥檛 the populated bits that vanished. Bruce wonders where this surface has gone, and which travel destinations he鈥檒l need to erase from his bucket list. On the upside, though, everywhere else will now be a little closer.
Cattle car
WHILE visiting Uzbekistan recently, John Croxford was informed by his guide that wealth there was measured in cows. Asked how much a modest car would cost, the guide replied, 鈥淭wenty cows.鈥� 鈥淏ack in New Zealand, I have worked out that a modest car here would also cost about 20 cows,鈥� says John. 鈥淚 wonder if there is a universal car-cow ratio.鈥�
Cabin pressure
TRAVELLER Paul Coyne reports overhearing an unsettling announcement at Birmingham airport in the UK: 鈥淲e regret to announce the delay of the 1305 flight to Zakynthos due to the weather conditions in second class.鈥� A spot of turbulence among the passengers, perhaps?