The International Space Station (ISS) has been plummeting round the Earth for more than a decade, spinning about the planet tens of times a day. Canadian astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield was up there for a...
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The Danxia formations are situated around 600 miles west of Shanghai, in the Gansu province of China. They stretch for hundreds of miles and some of them are now UNESCO Geoparks, spared from development or over trampling. The Danxia formations are...
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Sometimes I’m sitting at my keyboard with nothing between my ears but dust, no ideas, no inspiration. Then out of the deep blue interwab springs a nugget of joy which I clasp to...
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Now, just because an animal shares the same first letter as another animal does not mean they will necessarily get on. To demonstrate this fact I have a video to show you. It was taken...
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As children, many of us are bang into dinosaurs, it’s almost a default setting of human children. We’re fascinated by them in the same way that we’re fascinated by a fire breathing dragon...
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Some poor chap was on his way to a fishing trip near Lake Shestakov, Belarus with a couple of pals. He spotted a friendly little beaver at the side of the road and nipped...
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Yes. A fish with a transparent head. Brilliant. It’s called the pacific barreleye. What a funny looking little bugger. The dark blobs at the front of his greenhouse of a head are actually...
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All this fuss about the ‘wrong meat‘ being in things has kept me really entertained. I understand that supermarkets and meat producers shouldn’t be able to get away with lying to make a...
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Extreme kayaking normally denotes white water, feisty rapids and the occasional soaking, but for Brazilian TV programme ‘Kaiak’ on the channel ‘Canal Off’, they visit extreme destinations as well as the obvious rapids...
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Where are they held? One guess: Russia. Well, they were held there once anyway. The Pig Olympic ‘athletes’ compete in swimming pigball, running and other exciting challenges. It’s organised by the austere and august...
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