A Dabbawala is a person that collects home cooked food direct from a wife’s kitchen, takes it to their husband at work and then returns the container to wifey at the end of the...
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Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul), also called the manul, is native to the grasslands and montane steppe of Central Asia. It almost goes without saying that it has been classified as ‘Near Threatened’ by The International Union for Conservation of...
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If you’ve got the time, money and patience, it is possible to visit North Korea. But only the side of North Korea that the government is happy for you to see. You’ll be...
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Wood and pencil? Well, that’s a lovely cheap option Mr Hoo. Drawing on planks of wood could have been a rubbish idea, but it turns out that Ivan is super fresh at drawing,...
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Just outside a small village called Tongzhou, China, about 1 hour drive east of Beijing, there are strange things afoot. Body-less graves and cemeteries are springing up in rural locations. What’s that all about? China...
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The bumblebee bat or Kitti’s hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) is arguably the smallest mammal known to man. The bumblebee bat only occurs in the limestone caves near rivers in western Thailand and southeast Burma. Of course, it’s endangered....
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Cosplay is pretty big in the Western world these days. Youngsters with a lot of time to play games and a lot of money to buy outfits meet up regularly to stare at each...
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From a small studio base in Bangalore, Ramachandraiah draws and prints film posters to order. Here we take a look at some of his low-fi masterpieces. Ramachandraiah’s posters are slapped all over Bangalore; this makes...
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Bollywood is much more famous for its bold colours, snazzy dancing and sickeningly emotive music than it is for blood curdling screams and wolverines. But here are some film posters that tell the...
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Have you ever wondered how low budget Chinese films create such incredible and believable effects? Well wonder no more my friends. Here’s a short video that opens the lid on a pretty mind boggling...
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