Until the past decade or so, it had been accepted wisdom in the genetics community that only the tiniest percentage of the human genome contains the instructions that determine how we look, feel and act whether we (or our ancestral population group) are more likely to be grumpy or gregarious, impetuous or cautious, generous or a Grinch, a speedster or a marathoner, slow-witted or a math ace.
The police minister didn't help himself by arriving late to deliver his statement - an attempted point of order from a quick witted backbencher provided just enough cover to allow him to scramble into position as a puzzled and irate Speaker Bercow scanned the horizon.
Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip act like a genius.