Given all the evidence, it’s more likely that, after getting hit by lightning thirteen consecutive times, you win the lottery every weekend than it is for you to be abducted by little green or grey men. Unless, of course, you put some effort into it: go and butter yourself up, then add salt, pepper and marjoram. The full recipe can be found in “How to Serve Man”.

If you read a book or an academic study and see just a surname, it’s highly likely that you will think that it was written by a man. In our collective imagination, there is a tendency to think this way! A good way to eliminate the gender gap in science is to underline women’s visibility by writing the whole name on academic papers.

Although 3D movies may feel like a very modern invention, the first demonstration of a 3D movie was as far back as 1915. The most expensive 3D animation ever was ‘A Christmas Carol’ released in 2009 – it cost an incredible $200 million.