In this column, we provoke fresh thinking and round up some of the weird, wonderful, quirky, surprising – and shocking – stories out there

What’s in a name? Apparently we can intuit people’s names because their name influences their facial appearance in adult life, suggests a study led by Dr Ruth Mayo and PhD candidate Yonat Zwebner at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The research, ‘We look like our names: The manifestation of name stereotypes in facial appearance’, in the...