ReadersDigestAustraliaNewZealand-April2018

April• 2018 | 59 in its fourth generation of ine-tuning. Other Australian projects in the pipe- line include theStarchaser Marsu ...

60 | April• 2018 one-third of our gravity, less than one per cent of our surface air pressure and an average temperature below i ...

April• 2018 | 61 READER’S DIGEST to carry out longer and longer EVAs into the crater.” Closer to home, Clarke hopes an analogue ...

Laughter THE BEST MEDICINE 62 | April• 2018 RESISTING One morning a policeman knocked on my door, but I ignored him. He just kno ...

April• 2018 | 63 PUNDERRATED When I was a child, people used to cover me in chocolate and cream and put a cherry on my head. Lif ...

64 | April• 2018 LIFE LESSONS Secrets to a Smarter You Improve your memory by harnessing the power of words, images and mnemonic ...

April• 2018 | 65 PHOTOGRAPHED BY NIKKI ORMEROD ...

66 | April• 2018 SECRETS TO A SMARTER YOU I nanagewhenyourrefrig- erator can help you manage your shopping list and your phone c ...

April• 2018 | 67 READER’S DIGEST house or a point along your commute, for instance. Finally, make up a story about the items, wh ...

68 | April• 2018 SECRETS TO A SMARTER YOU week,allthestudentstookaquiz. Those who both read and listened outscored the reading-o ...

Olly Mann discovers that people find it “” SYMPATHY A Scary ILLUSTRATION: MATTHEW BRAZIER FIRST PERSON ...

70 | April• 2018 A SCARY SYMPATHY M Y MUM’S ABOUT TO have spinal surgery. There’s an illusion of choice about it: one consultant ...

April• 2018 | 71 READER’S DIGEST it’s a serious operation.” Inevitably, all Mum focused on was a frighten- ing prognosis which, ...

Anatomy ofaSneeze Simultaneously expressing itself as a solid, a liquid and a gas, the common sneeze is one of nature’s grossest ...

COURTESY LYDIA BOUROUIBA, PHD, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 2 The largest droplets (illustrated in green) rocket out of ...

74 | April• 2018 BY PAUL KIXFROMGQ THE DRIVE OF HIS LIFE “T AKE US TO WALMART,”said the man who settled into the passenger seat. ...

April• 2018 | 75 goatee on his thin and weary face. It was 9.30 on a chilly Friday night in Santa Ana, California.Now they want ...

76 | April• 2018 THE DRIVE OF HIS LIFE Walmartdidn’thavewhatthemen needed,sotheytoldMatodrive themtoaTargetstore45minutes away.M ...

April• 2018 | 77 READER’S DIGEST down four storeys to the ground. No alarms sounded; no lights swept the exterior. They’d done i ...

78 | April• 2018 THE DRIVE OF HIS LIFE become dentists and pharmacists andwhite-collarsuccessstories– madehimfeelashamedofthelif ...