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Sighs of relief as earthquake-resistant bike saddle finally invented

As buyers await the launch of a bicycle saddle that promises to be earthquake resistant, Feedback also ponders the sculptures set to be housed in a transparent cube on the moon, and key information on the errant mass of the W boson

20 April 2022

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Josie Ford

Quaking on our bikes

Feedback doesn’t live in great fear of earthquakes. The last significant tremor in our neck of the woods – a 4.3-magnitude shocker that hit Folkestone, UK, in 2007 – was, according to one eyewitness, like . This is how it felt the last time the earth moved for us, too, although admittedly that was even further back.

Still, you can’t be too careful, and the past couple of years have taught us nothing if not the value of the precautionary principle, although possibly not even…

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