Google’S Hot Search Visualisation Is Mesmerising
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I put up a post a couple of days back about the Google Trends tool which enables you to chart the popularity of search terms over time. It’s a little on the geeky...
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Sơn Đoòng – World’s Biggest Cave
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There’s a good few contenders vying for the accolade of largest cave in the world, the newest in this stagnant race is Sơn Đoòng cave in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Vietnam. Sơn Đoòng was only discovered...
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The Duck Billed Platypus: Weirder Than You Thought
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Everyone knows that this hairy egg laying mammal with a beak is weird. I had a read about these little chaps today, and it turns out they are even weirder still. So as...
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China Build Copy Cat English Town Called Thames Town
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You may remember a post I recently published covering a Chinese town, built to look like Paris that had become a ghost town. Here’s a similar story, but this time it’s called ‘Thames Town’ and...
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Kim Jong-un Has Ex Machine Gunned To Death
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UPDATE 18TH MAY 2014: Hyon Song-wol, after a year or so has been spotted being interviewed on the telly box in North Korea. It turns out she’s not dead at all! North...
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Fourth National Beard And Moustache Competition Winner
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For those of you that aren’t familiar with my face, I am bearded. Don’t get too jealous though, I’ve not got the sort of beard coverage that I’ve always dreamed of. It’s a...
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How Big Is A Wolf?
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How big is a wolf? That’s a tricky question to answer because they vary in size by species and by location. But, while looking for an average measurement, it became clear that there...
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Women Pirates: Jeanne de Clisson – The Lioness Of Brittany
Today’s fearsome lady pirate, Jeanne de Clisson, was born Jeanne-Louise de Belleville, Dame de Montaiga in the year 1300. She became known as the Lioness of Brittany, and for good reason, if the...
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Ann Bonny – Another Fearsome Female Pirate
I wrote about a Chinese pirate queen called Ching Shi the other day and found it all rather interesting so I thought I’d learn about another femme fatale of the blustery high seas....
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Snails: Faster & Deadlier Than Once Thought
Snails. Not the most fascinating topic on the menu you might think. Well, think again. These virtually blind and deaf hermaphrodites have been on the planet for a million years and are...
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