Of versatile MPVs and male frailties
We take Toyota's upgraded Verso MPV on a country jaunt with the family - and emerge quite happy....
About: Alan Duggan
Let there be… gravity
Gravity powered light could be a boon for rural Africa, spelling an end to paraffin lamps....
Shock! Horror! A peek inside PM editor’s ‘Man Drawer’
Every guy worth his salt has a Man Drawer, and as comedian Michael McIntyre reveals, its contents can be very odd....
Fashion with a conscience?
Conscience... at a price. The sale of these limited-edition timepieces will fund the destruction of thousands of AK-47 assault riflles in Africa....
Distant cousins?
Recent research on Acanthodes bronni, a fish from the Paleozoic era, sheds light on the evolution of the earliest jawed vertebrates and offers a new glimpse of the last common ancestor before the split between the earliest sharks and the first bony fishes – the lineage that would eventually include human beings...
Go gentle? Over my dead body
Once a year, Popular Mechanics extracts and publishes a few of the most thought-provoking contributions to a wonderful Web site called Edge, which invites some of the planet’s leading intellectuals and thought-leaders to respond to a simple question. This year’s challenge: “What should we be worried about?”...
Tell someone who cares (and it’s not us)
PR firms are cocking it up badly in their lazy, ill-considered and hugely annoying “shotgun” approach to spreading their clients’ message...
Bugger, we’re all doomed!
I love it when scientists come up with concepts so bold that their colleagues roll their eyes, especially when they talk about way-out stuff like solar-powered asteroid-zappers and near-light speed space travel...
Fashion showdown? J’accuse!
As one of South Africa’s fashion icons, I’m outraged at my exclusion from GQ magazine’s annual “Best Dressed Men” showdown. I have no axe to grind with its editor, a nice guy who does a good job, but it needs to be said that this one glaring omission makes rubbish of the entire competition. I’ll go a step further: they deliberately ignored me because I would have blown them away....
Do you really need a tablet?
Having recently emerged from an impassioned discussion about the relative merits (and demerits) of tablets, notebooks and other interesting hardware, I thought it worth citing a few reasons for my own conversion to ultra-portability (that is, tablets). ...
When politics meets ET
It defies belief, but even in this scientifically advanced day and age, when life-changing discoveries happen on a daily basis and technological miracles pass without comment, we still find people who refuse to believe that our planet is visited regularly by highly intelligent extraterrestrials....
Let’s hear it for excess
Personally, I’m not wild about today’s Cadillacs. I’ve always loved the shape and just about everything else about the carrier-sized Caddies of the 1940s and 1950s, and even a couple from the extravagant Sixties – but have to say that I lost interest when the cars became ordinary. It’s as if their creators were consumed with guilt over the excesses of yesteryear and decided to tone it down....
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