Your Letters
15:57 UK time, Tuesday, 11 September 2007
Re: Contagious 'sign of empathy'. How many of us yawned while reading this article because we wanted to convince ourselves we were really empathetic?
Sam, Leeds
100 in 100 days? Assume each novel is 400 pages and you spend 14 hours a day reading them. you're looking at nearly 30 pages an hour or 2 minutes per page. It's possible, although you may well get bedsores in the process. I'm not really sure it does justice to the writer though if the books are skim read though.
kaz, London
I scored 4/5 for the , but I thought it was a little unfair. There are seven base units, of which metre is admittedly one, but why not just put metre there instead?
Daniel Morgan, Kent, UK
Among today's more shocking statistics, we learn that more than 5 million days are lost by school children taking "unauthorised term-time ". Am I missing something, or this what we used to call 'truant'?
Steve, London
According to your Q&A on metric and imperial measures: "The Weights and Measures Act of 1963 abolished a set of measures that only historians would now recognise, including the drachm, scruple, minim, chaldron, quarter, rod, pole and perch." Does that mean that my local council are breaking the law then? I rent an allotment from them which is, according to my contract, 16 rods long.
Adam, London, UK
So the tabloids think is fat? If she is paunchy then I am in big trouble.
Duncan, Oxford
Apparently, "233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees 'wasting time' on ".
Yet no mention of all those wasting time at work reading that article...
Rob, Birmingham
Re: today's . Why are Japanese scientists researching which vegetables help memory loss? Surely finding something that combats forgetfulness would be more useful?
Martin, Newbury, UK
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