Fun

If you are a soon-to-be-former employee at Sandwich, it is hard to find much fun in Pfizer’s hubris and strategic missteps over the last decade. The rest of us though will enjoy this video, a collection of the US pharma giant’s recent media highlights, set to its own stirring corporate theme tune.

Got a new gadget for Christmas? You might have the same problem as Ronnie Corbett.

At the end of the year it is conventional to look back at what worked well (and what did not) in the year finishing, and to make plans for the year ahead. My favourite gig in 2010 was a three-day strategy workshop in Phuket, Thailand.

Gary Foshee walked to the lectern to present his talk. It consisted of the following three sentences: “I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys?”

The Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has been indicted by a US grand jury on a charge of “attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction”. Yes, that’s right, a pair of loaded underpants is now officially a WMD.

Inside a windowless room is a light that is off. There are three switches outside, only one of which turns the light on/off. You are outside the room and allowed to play with the switches but not to look into the room in the process. You are allowed to go into the room once, after which you must directly say which switch works the light?

Looking at a usual analogue clock, how many times does the minute hand pass the hour hand between midday and midnight?

You have a full champagne bottle and only a ruler for measuring. How do you calculate the volume of the bottle?