Columns

Why Do We Blush?

Do you turn red when you're embarrassed? Adam Hart-Davis explains the biology behind blushing.

Other featured columns by Adam Hart-Davis:

•	Are We Alone?

•	Why Do Beans Make You Fart?

Accents of Change

From Sean Connery to Queen Elizabeth II, Susie Dent reveals Britain's best and worst accents.

Other featured columns by Susie Dent:

•	Of Chavs and Toffs

•	Is English Going to the Dogs?

Being Sat Nav Savvy

How does your satellite navigation system work? Johnny Ball reveals all…

Other featured columns by Johnny Ball:

•	What A Load of Rubbish

•	Energy-Saving Light Bulbs: Are They Worth the Fuss?

Meet Our Columnists

Adam Hart-Davis—The Heart of the Matter

Adam Hart-Davis

Adam is a photographer, writer, and broadcaster, who has presented over 200 television programmes (including What the Romans did for us), radio programmes, and written several books on science and history.

Visit Adam's personal homepage.

Susie Dent—Language Corner

Susie Dent; Image Courtesy of Alan Strutt

Susie is the resident word expert on Channel 4’s Countdown programme as well as the author of several books on language change and new words, including The Language Report, published annually by Oxford University Press.

Learn more about Susie.

Johnny Ball's Vital Ballistics

Johnny Ball

Johnny is a BAFTA-award winning popularizer of mathematics and sciences whose television shows included Think of a Number and Johnny Ball Reveals All. He continues to make appearances and lectures throughout the country.

Visit Johnny's website.

Columns Archive

The Heart of the Matter

•	Why Should You Care About the Big Bang?

•	Miracle Cure?: Stem Cell Therapy

•	Renewable Energy: The Answer to our Energy Crisis?

•	Is the Weather Really Changing?

•	Are We Alone?

•	Cooking Up Inventions

•	Eurekaaargh: Inventions that Nearly Worked

•	Invented by Mistake

•	Great Medical Breakthroughs

•	Taking the Piss

•	The History of Toilets in Five Bogs

•	Why Beans Make You Fart

•	Why Do We Blush?

•	Three Great Ancient Greeks

•	What Did the Romans Ever Do for Us?

•	What Did Landing on the Moon Ever Do for Us?

•	What Made Britain Great?

•	Poor Darwin

Language Corner

•	New Blooks and Manties

•	Dictionary Democracy

•	Truly, Madly, Deeply

•	Of Chavs and Toffs

•	Talking Shop

•	Pimping, Poking and Purrcasting

•	Wordsearch: Hunting the New Words of 2008

•	The New Black

•	Shocking English

•	Getting Our Just Desserts

•	Packing A Pun

•	Golli Gosh

•	Accents of Change

•	Dialects: Alive and Kicking

•	Supersizing the Language

•	Is English Going to the Dogs?

Vital Ballistics

•	The Eureka Streaker

•	The Pharaoh's Computer

•	The Power of Six

•	Simple Gauss Work

•	Undermining a Flat Earth with Square Roots

•	The First Calculator

•	If Columbus Only Knew

•	Pyramid Selling, Made Easy

•	From Zero to Hero

•	Fibonacci's Fabulous Series

•	Being Sat Nav Savvy

•	Seeing the Light, But None Too Clearly

•	Who KERS Wins?

•	Why Size Matters

•	Whichever Way the Wind Blows

•	Why Darwin Is So Very Sexy

•	What A Load of Rubbish

More

•	A Question of Time

•	A Load of Old Pants

•	Are You Beautiful? Why Looks Matter

•	Are You Killing the Apostrophe?

•	Astrology: A True Science?

•	Conspiracy Theory: Who's Controlling History?

•	Weird Beauty Treatments

•	What Does Your Handwriting Say About You?

•	What Makes People Picky Eaters?

•	Why First-Borns Are More Intelligent

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