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14:42 UK time, Monday, 25 February 2013

"Seafarer science: Sailors asked to help measure plankton"Join the Navy! See the world! Measure plankton! (It doesn't really work, does it?)
Nigel Macarthur, London, England

"Seafarer science: Sailors asked to help measure plankton"
This article forgot to mention that phytplankton are plankton that are microscopic plants, as opposed to zooplankton (microscopic animals). Still, it will allow sailors to be the first since the choir of HMS Ark Royal to release a disk!
Nigel Macarthur, London, England

Could a new phonetic alphabet promote world peace?' You've got to be @#*!&*# joking. Mark, Reading, UK

I'm not sure where your correspondent Madeline Morris was shopping for her $2.25 limes but at my local supermarket they're 35 cents (about 21p)each, cheaper at the local fruit and veg shop. However, they're cheaper still when picked from my neighbour's tree!
Bob Howes, Toowoomba, Australia

Re the article "Where are all the women F1 drivers?". You may be interested to know that Desiree Wilson won an F1 race at Brands Hatch in 1980 and has a Grandstand named after her. It was a domestic F1 race and not part of the International World Championship-but an F1 race nevertheless...
Neil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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