Tim Dowling: the dog’s training regime has taken a weird turn

Intermediate Dog School involves hiding behind trees in the park …

Can you eat pineapple leaves and how do our taste buds work? The kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

Catherine Connolly is the third woman to become what? The Saturday quiz

From the Cloak of Invisibility and the Elder Wand to Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

Seann Walsh: ‘Who would play me in the film of my life? Jack Dee, because he would hate it’

The comedian on getting sacked from TK Maxx, looking permanently hungover, and his 90s crush

Madeline Horwath on the mistakes of evolution

Is it time to wind the clock back to a happier, less complicated epoch?

Tom Gauld on the rewards of enhanced reading

Beyond words …