Josie Ford

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Down under

No less a personage than New Scientist‘s editor, Catherine de Lange, alerted us to this development. Naturally, we have made it our lead item: it’s our way of saying sorry for all the times Cat has had to say things like, “For crying out loud, don’t print that, you’ll get us sued into oblivion for a one-liner.”

Cat had been sent a press release for a company called Underdays, which she forwarded to Feedback without comment. It’s always a good sign when a colleague sends us something and doesn’t even bother to say anything snarky. We assume they have been so floored by what they read that they simply couldn’t think of anything to add.