Your Letters

17:47 UK time, Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Re the study that found women are choosier than men. I wonder if the people who funded it would be interested in paying for me to go to Italy to complete my PhD dissertation on religious preferences in the Vatican? The results could be equally astounding...
Sheldon Price, Manchester

So new research shows that birds can be startled by things. I wonder who funded that profound contribution to the sum of human knowledge?
Alex D, Southampton, UK

Paper Monitor should look a little closer to home when condemning croc-related puns. The BBC news story states that no static electricity related incidents have "sparked concern" in the UK.
Michael, Rockville, MD, US

Re the chance of having triplets not once but twice (Tuesday's letters). Surely having triplets would make some people not want any more children, thus lowering the chance of them having another set as they take appropriate precautions. Also, what does the one in 8000 refer to in the first place? The chance of any conception being of triplets? The chance of a person conceiving triplets at some point in their life? Statistics are useless when people aren't told exactly what they're statistics of.
Michael, Warrington

Can I be the first to pedantically remind Emily Hardacre (Tuesday's letters) that none of Henry VIII's wives were divorced - their marriages were annulled. Completely different.
HB, London

I agree with Tom from Derby (Tuesday's letters). Getting straight to the Monitor as a whole is convenient, it becomes crucial when in a hurry during office hours.
Andrea, Scafati (Darkest Italy)

I love being a scientific pedant so I'd like to point out something a little misleading in Coming soon... a super you. When talking about possible X-Ray specs it says these "emit terahertz radiation - ultra-high frequency beams of light..." - well, terahertz radiation sounds pretty high frequency (a one with 12 zeros every second) but as light goes it's not that high frequency at all - visible light being about five with 14 zeros per second (half a petahertz or 500 terahertz). These X-Ray specs seem to use something more like microwaves or far infra-red (like very low frequency light).
Andy M, Oxford, UK

I can't be the only one to find the prospect of see-through aeroplane floors a touch distressing can I?
Annya, Glasgow

Yes Neil Boorman may have ditched all his labels, but man doesn't he look depressed.
Michael, Birmingham