"That's an absolutely brilliant advance," says Megan.
But if cutting carbs was such a brilliant advance, where are all the thin and healthy people?
"A lot of parents consider turning the car seat around as another developmental milestone that shows how brilliant and advanced their child is," she said, "and they don't realize that it's making their child less safe".
Finally, we come to the resolution of Arya's storyline – sadly, given the number of brilliant theories advanced below the line last week, sometimes the obvious answer turns out to be the right one.
And in the 2nd place, why hide such a brilliant American technological advance under a bushel?
Then, in the second half of the 19th century, there occurred a series of advances so brilliant as to render the artillery in use when the century closed probably 10 times as efficient as that which marked its opening.
His book Carbon Democracy, published four years ago and shared with me, as a 40th birthday present, by the only hedge fund manager I know, advances a brilliant, revisionist argument that places oil companies at the heart of 20th-century history – and of the political and environmental crises we now face.
But, as it happens, I am pretty sure it is one that my darling and brilliant late wife would advance, partly because as a historian she had a deep understanding of the role of scribblers in the creation and advance of our democracy, and partly because – despite everything – she never dumped the bleedin' Daily Mail.
The stylus-based mini-games of WarioWare: Touched! convinced some that touch controls were the future, but for my money it couldn't hold a candle to the original, nor to its brilliant, gyro-enhanced Game Boy Advance follow-up, WarioWare: Twisted!
