This is the pacific barreleye. The dark blobs at the front of his greenhouse of a head are actually their equivalent of nostrils. The eyes are the greenish blobs inside the glass cage....
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All this fuss about finding the ‘wrong meat‘ in things has kept me really entertained recently. Supermarkets and meat producers certainly shouldn’t be able to get away with lying to make a bigger...
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Extreme kayaking normally involves white water, feisty rapids, and the occasional soaking, but on the Brazilian TV programme Kaiak, they also plonk themselves at extreme destinations. The pictures below are taken just off...
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Here’s a nice bit of archaeology to start your day, and it’s fairly sinister, too. A portal called “Pluto’s Gate” — Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin — has been found by a group...
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In my youth, I would do anything I could to get out of an arduous day of school. A slightly icy path, an untied shoelace, a rumbling tummy, or a subtle headache would...
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This is my first post about Obama. Whether you love him or hate him, or are ambivalent towards him like me, he sure has ruffled some bald eagle feathers. This is an old...
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There may well be other forms of life somewhere out in the blackness of space. We don’t know. Has any of this extraterrestrial life ever come to earth? Maybe a fungus or microbe...
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So we’re back with part two of my depth charge in to Captain Francis Grose‘s amazing publication from 1811, The Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue. Today we tackle the C words. If you missed the...
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The Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue was written in 1811 by Captain Francis Grose. He endeavored to capture all of the common expressions of the day, used by the lower echelons of society. Vulgar in this sense...
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