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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Can anyone make a citizen’s arrest, even me? – Henry, age 12, Winter Hill, Massachusetts What does Spider-Man do when he sees someone commit a crime and there are no police officers around to help? He swings in, wraps the wrongdoer in his web and leaves them hanging from a telephone pole until the cops take over. But is he allowed to do that? Are you? Seizing criminals Until about 200 years ago, uniformed police officers and police departments as we know them today didn’t exist in the United States. It was up to the citizens to arrest criminals. In 1285, England introduced what we now know as “citizen’s arrests” in a law called the Statute of Winchester. It allowed any person to arrest – in other words, capture – lawbreaker...

This article first appeared in The Conversation Picking your nose is linked to an increased risk of COVID, according to a study out this week. The study was conducted in health workers. This raises two main questions: Catch the best deals and products hand-picked by our team at Best Picks >> One, were these health workers washing their hands at work? Two, what does this study mean for the rest of us nose-pickers? What did the study find? Some 219 Dutch Health workers were monitored for COVID infection. They had regular antibody testing, which tells us if they had been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. They also reported the results of their own COVID tests. Some 12-18 months later, the Health workers were asked about their nose-picking habits, and exposure to COVID via symptomatic workmates or from contacts outside work. Just over 17 per cent of health workers who reported picking their nose caught COVID versus about 6 per cent of those who did not report no...