Day 22: I Am Astonished By Science

This marvellous chap is Dr Martin Tovee, Reader in Visual Cognition at The University of Newcastle. (For my overseas readers, Newcastle is a very sound and well-respected British University: one of the real ones, not one of the ones that used to be a College of Further Education. You can do real degrees there, and everything.)

Anyway, Dr Tovee (for that is his name) has recently finished a piece of research that has found that hungry men fancy fat birds, and 'sated' men fancy thin birds. This astonishing fact was reported on Radio 4 this morning (and is therefore definitely true), and further reinforced by Richard and Judy, those heroes of daytime television, who conducted their own experiment amongst a group of mildly strange men that completely reinforced Dr Tovee's thesis.

I am astonished and delighted by this information and have yet to fully understand what enormous impact it could have on my own life, but as Judy (or was it Richard?) said, "if you want to keep him interested, keep him hungry". This feels like a momentous insight on many levels, and I think I may need some time to reflect. To find out more, look no further than the voice of the country that enjoys a deep fried Mars Bar, The Scotsman.