autopilot
Our actions are dictated by “autopilot”, not choice, finds new study — The research also found that 46% of behaviours were both triggered by habit and aligned with conscious intentions, suggesting that people form habits that support their personal goals, and often disrupt habits that conflict with them.
Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years — In the first half of the 20th Century, doctors would inject a woman’s urine under a female frog’s skin and - if she was pregnant - it would cause the amphibian to produce eggs. This test was uncovered by English biologist Lancelot Hogben during his studies in South Africa in the 1920s. Following this discovery, the frogs were kept at four centres in the UK, but a number escaped their clinical confines and made a new home for themselves in a pocket of south Wales.
The National Sanskrit University and NIT Calicut are launching a project to explore ancient weather prediction methods: how frog behaviour, ant movements and specific cloud formations were used to predict rainfall
