I recently squeezed into a small barren metal cage to raise awareness for Primate Day, writes Julia Stephenson.

I was with animal welfare campaigner Meg Matthews and singer-songwriter Maria Daines, whose fantastic song 'Monkey in a Cage' recently made it to the top of the charts.  Horrifically, monkeys and apes are still used in animal experiments despite a ban that is supported by doctors, scientists- including the RSPCA and primatologist Dr Jane Goodall - researchers and 200 welfare groups worldwide. 

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I slept with my best friend’s boyfriend when she was away in the States. We were both drunk at the time and to be honest I can’t remember much about it. We agreed we wouldn’t tell her but I haven’t been able to face her since. Should I tell her the truth? I don’t want to lose her friendship.

A brutal ten-year civil war on the Pacific island of Bouganville was ended through a peace campaign that used guitars, not guns, as its main 'weapon'.

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Check out one of the seminal moments in physics, writes Phil Becque

There is a paradox at the heart of quantum mechanics; namely, that the observer - in this case very sensitive measuring equipment - can affect the result of an observation, before the photons or electrons have been activated.

And so once more to the stump - I have been selected as the Green Party candidate for Chelsea and Westminster in the forthcoming London Assembly elections, writes Julia Stephenson.

I say 'selected', but if I’m honest, no one else wanted to do it – like Amy Winehouse I said 'No no no’ but the thought of green-minded burghers trotting to the polling booth on 1 May to find no Green candidate to vote for was too guilt-making.  So in a triumph of hope over experience (this is my fifth election and I’ve lost every one of them), here I am again.