From Phil Jennings (the size of a small shed)
Feedback rightly highlights the common use and abuse of everyday size comparisons in scientific articles (8 November).
However, in the otherwise excellent article on box jellyfish in the same issue (p 34), you describe Chironex fleckeri as being “a brutish creature the size of a birthday cake”. Does that mean its tentacles are the size of candles?
Stoke Gifford, Bristol, UK
