Thirty years ago psychiatry was rocked by the revelation that nine sane volunteers had faked hearing voices and fooled thier way on to locked wards. Has diagnosis improved since? Psychologist Lauren Slater repeats the experiment

The Who: Substitute (1966)

What the grown-ups say: "Substitute is an ironic comment on the gulf between image and reality, set to one of Pete's trickiest little riffs, all driven along by a ringing open D string. A bona fide pop classic." (www.thewho.net)

What the kids say:
Holly It sounds like when your wee goes back up.

The Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK (1977)
What the grown-ups say: "They play with an energy and conviction that is positively transcendent in its madness and fever... It has an Ahab-versus-Moby-Dick power that can shake you like no other music today can." (Rolling Stone)

What the kids say:
Beth: Who's Annie Key?

You know you're living in a late culture when a chef - in this case, three-Michelin-starred Catalan Chef Ferran Adrià - serves you shrimp broth in a pipette, foie gras that has been frozen and ground to a powder, and a mushroom appetizer spritzed with a custom-made woody fragrance. Historically speaking, such baroque food isn't the best indicator for a society's fate: Apicius wrote recipes for flamingo tongues and stuffed dormice shortly before Rome burned, and France's revolutionary deluge followed Louis XIV's marathon feasts by a mere few decades.

"The strength of pairing in our fermionic condensate, adjusted for mass and density," Jin explains, "would correspond to a room temperature superconductor. This makes me optimistic that the fundamental physics we learn through fermionic condensates will eventually help others design more practical superconducting materials."

I wondered how a western broadcaster, like the BBC, would have covered events in, say, the former Soviet bloc country of Britistan.

"Recently, following a show trial under a judge nominated by the president's best friend, the chairman and general manager of the state broadcasting organisation were summarily removed for the offences of 'creating public alarm, making false accusations against the president, and spreading incorrect thoughts.'

"The remaining governors were made to 'apologise unreservedly' for their errors ..."

A giant rabbit called Dory saved her owner's life by jumping on his chest when he fell into a diabetic coma.

The big bunny, who weighs nearly 10kg, tapped on Simon Steggall's chest and licked his face when he passed out at his home in Warboys, Cambridgeshire.