This link http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/christopherhowse/100002162/stone-ag... shows an interesting piece of stone age ware from Northern Spain that has been investigated by the University of Zaragoza.  Even to my beady Hedgehog eyes, the pattern labelled "relief design" looks remarkably like a fish.

But look at the article and comments.  Please tell me, O Human Hank, why are the columnists and readers of such a conservative newspaper so "snotty" about science?   To save youall the bother of registering, the Hedgehog would be glad to receive your comments and feed them back to the author.

May I pass on to you all the following link to an article

Do these mysterious stones mark the site of Garden of Eden?

which refers to archeological disoveries at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey.  Condensed, it says that the religious significance of the place, ca 10,000 BC, caused people to gather there and develop agriculture. Memory of the rigours of agriculture, and the resulting ecological crash, is preserved in the early chapters of Genesis. 

Shortly after the Second World War, the famous naturalist, Gerald Durrell, was collecting animals in Cameroon.  While he generally got on well with the locals wherever he went, one frustration he encountered was that villagers might again and again offer him the same tortoise, despite his emphatic protestations that he did not want it.  But they would reply "You didn't want it from that man, but maybe you want it from me."

This is the topic of a recent Telegraph Blog (here) by Daniel Hannan, a Member of the European Parliament.

The Hedgehog would like to know, WHAT SORT OF SCIENCE should the "some" be?  Any reasonable and prompt answers will be fed back to Daniel Hannan.