A few months ago I wrote briefly about an incredible Polish artist by the name of Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005). The article has been getting some attention recently so I thought I would post up...
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Had you ever heard of a Chinese or mainland serow before today? Well here she is. The unsung Asian hero of the goat world: the serow. A flowing mane, horns and a psychopath’s...
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Wrangel Island is no venue for a beach holiday, not if you want to survive, anyway. Saying it’s “a bit nippy” would be the mother of all understatements. Wrangel Island sits, shimmering in the Arctic...
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A recent fixture in the news-media has been the royal marine who murdered a wounded Taliban prisoner at point-blank range in Afghanistan. Before emptying one off into the suspected insurgent’s chest, Sergeant Blackman...
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Everyone knows the term ‘sonic boom’, and most people know it’s the noise an aircraft makes (or anything else for that matter) when it breaks the sound barrier. That was pretty much all I...
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In the early days of photography, as we all know, you had to sit still if you wanted a semi-decent picture of yourself or a loved one. For an adult that poses no...
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Guatemala, Central America, has a wealth of unique and pristine ecosystems. The natural environment is variable in the extreme and as such it can play host to a large variety of bird species. The...
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Here’s a high resolution version of the NASA Curiosity rover‘s descent to Mars and its delicate landing, all lovingly filmed by the MARDI descent imager. A chap called Brad Canning spent months cleaning, re-jazzing...
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The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Africa with a population of around 4.4 million. It is the 45th biggest country in the world, about the same sort of size...
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The Chernobyl incident of 1986 left a lasting poisonous shroud over hundreds of square kilometres of land. The 60 km circle that surrounds the plant is lovingly titled “the zone of alienation.” The area is deserted,...
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