My rant about the British and sex before I went away got a result: two hot scientist babes contacted me privately to offer me correction. First, Helena, a specialist working on pathogenic species for the Wellcome Trust, pointed out that, despite my checking it twice, I had misspelled “chlamydia”. Then Leasey, co-author on this Nature paper, pointed that I had seriously exaggerated the statistic from the article I linked to. In fact, one in eight sexually active teenage girls has the disease.

I have to go now. A woman in a white coat has just walked into the Geek Cave, peered over her spectacles at me disapprovingly, and unravelled her hair from its severe bun.