Why are the British public so suspicious of science and scientists? These days many might point to ‘mad cow’ disease and genetically modified foods as primary causes, but the public’s mistrust of science goes back much further and runs much deeper than these recent scares. As a child in Britain, most of my classmates seemed instinctively to know that science was difficult and boring, and that o...

The wide distribution of digital devices as well as cheap storage allow us to take series of photos making sure not to miss any specific beautiful moment. Thereby, the huge and constantly growing image assembly makes it quite timeconsuming to manually pick the best shots afterwards. Even more challenging, finding the most aesthetically pleasing images that might also be worth sharing is a large...