Brain game

AUGUST has thrown up a number of stories ...

THE BLACK-CAPPED chickadee is wonderfully onomatopoeic. When the diminutive songbird, which is Canada’s answer to the great tit, spots a great-horned owl perched in a tree, it broadcasts a shrill ‘chi

KILLER WHALES, OR ORCAS, have been filmed making and then using what is thought to be the cetacean equivalent of a pumice stone. It’s the first time that a marine mammal has been seen creating a groom

THE BEAUTY WITH snorkelling or diving is that it transports you away from the rat race of modern life into an alien world, far detached from our own. With that first dip beneath the surface, the stres

I don’t know about you, but I love a good ‘push your luck’ game. There’s something truly delicious about that fine balancing act of going all out to win but risking everything - or playing it safe but

The games boom of the early 1970s was partly characterised by a glut of two-player abstracts resembling Chess, to the extent that your aim was to capture your opponent’s principal King-like piece by m