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Super Bowl advert under fire for using chimps as actors

February 1, 2012

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It’s Super Bowl time so that must mean we’re in for yet another bout of controversy. What is it with this event that makes people taking part make the biggest faux pas? We’ve had Boob-gate in 2004 when Justin Trouser-snake, exposed a nipple shield that Janet Jackson was wearing during the half-time entertainment. Then there […]

Monkey think, monkey do.

February 9, 2011

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Last month I interviewed an inspirational man, Niall Strawson, who despite being left with a spinal cord injury from a recent accident, is determined to continue working in the field and is planning his first trip back to Africa this summer. Scientists all over the world continue to research ways of overcoming human paralysis. At […]