FORGET nicotine replacement therapy or pharmaceutical solutions to help people stop smoking - a Japanese company is offering an extra week's holiday to its non-smoking staff members.
A spokesperson for the marketing firm called Piala said the offer has proved extremely popular among the 120 staff, with the policy introduced as a benefit for non-smokers to compensate for smoking breaks taken by colleagues.
About two thirds of the company's staff do not smoke, and that figure is now set to increase, the spokesman said.
Are you right-handed or left-handed, right-footed or left-footed or do you dress left or right?
As animals go, we are not too different to our flying buzzing honey-producing relatives.
Apparently honey bees also care about which way to go when confronted with a decision to go left or right around an obstacle, according to researchers from the Brain Institute at the University of Queensland.
About 55% of bees were impartial, while of the remaining 45%, about half were left-biased and half were right-biased.
Researchers postulate the apparent left- or right-handedness could contribute to the efficiency of moving in swarms and have potential applications in guiding the steering of a fleet of drone aircraft.
Visit uq.edu.au for the buzz.
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