Don’t Google it!
Maybe this title is a little strong. Maybe it isn't. However, I was listening to the wonderful podcast "Now, where were we?" by Barry and Bob Cryer- which I can heartily recommend by the way- and they were interviewing comedian and writer Sanjeev Bhaskar and happened upon the topic of research. This may sound completely dull and boring- why am I writing about looking facts up? Well, the simple fact (see what I did... they don't call me the master of the pun for nothing you know! Or is it that they don't call me the master of the pun... one or the other) of the matter is that these days, when we wish to find something out, we can simply get out our phones and google it. This has been so engrained within our culture that to google is now a verb and has been for ages. This is all well and good, sure you get to the answer straight away, so what could possibly be the problem? Well, googling answers and searching for facts on Wikipedia is not necessarily bad, it's ...