Kids think that by 2020 robots will be serving up school lunch and eye scans will replace registers, according to a report. Pupils were asked to look 15 years ahead and predict the top five changes technology would make to school life. More than a third thought video conferencing would do away with the need to go to school at all. Other ideas are that holograms will be used in teaching and bus drivers will be replaced by virtual drivers. However, despite advances in technology, child experts say that school will never be scrapped for remote learning because it's a place to interact and develop social skills. Nice try…
If you're left-handed you can often find things aren't so easy for you - but not for some snails! Scientists have found that snails with shells that open on the left have a big advantage in life - predators find it really difficult to eat them. American scientists studied snails preyed on by the crab Calappa flammea. The crab is unable to open left-handed shells because it only has a tool for peeling them on its right claw making it too tricky, so they leave the snail.
But sadly the left-handed snails find it much harder to find a mate, and so will probably remain rare or die out completely - despite escaping the crabs.
Talking of snails… Snails have replaced dogs as the major pest to postmen and it's all because of the glue used to seal envelopes. Somehow snails have realised they like the taste of either human spit or the glue on envelopes. They are doing anything to get a taste, including climbing all the way up post boxes and then dropping down into the letters for a feast. Some mornings postmen have found as many as 30 snails among the letters, enjoying an unusual breakfast. But now post office bosses have found a solution, fitting furry draught excluders to the post boxes. Amazingly, the snails don't like being tickled by the plastic brushes and have given up on the boxes where the draught excluders have been fitted. Hee hee ha ha ha no stop it! Stop it! Now look what you’ve done, I’ve slimed myself!
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