Cordyceps are a group of around 400 different fungi species. The majority of this legion of fungi are insect parasites (entomopathogenic) and destroy their victims in the most blood-curdling and brutal way. They take...
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I spend quite a bit of time on Deviant Art, if you’ve not visited the site before I recommend it. In a nutshell, it’s a place for budding (and fully fledged) artists to post their...
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Christmas Island sits 2,600 kilometres (1,600 miles) northwest of Perth, Western Australia and 500 km (310 miles) south of Indonesia, this relative isolation allowed an interesting and specialised selection of flora and fauna to...
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Although Western weddings are comparitively drab when sat next to an Indian marriage, the dancing involved in both camps can be pretty major. English weddings are generally a little stiff until the music and...
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Welcome to part G of the Awesome Photos From Russia With Love series. If this is your first time here, it’s lovely to see you. If you are a returning customer it’s even...
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Sometimes, after a long and meaningless day in the office, I relish the idea of coming home and learning about something interesting. I look forward to digging up some nuggets of golden info about stuff I’d...
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Whilst “researching” a recent article about Star Wars manga comics, I happened to stumble across a manga version of Poirot. I must admit, I was fairly surprised to find it. I can fully understand...
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Japan has a rich tradition of taking Western ideas, giving them a little twist and a liberal portion of extra weird. They say “well… OK Westerners, you’ve done a pretty good job, but we...
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The fact that we have any fossils at all is pretty miraculous. The normal state of affairs in nature is for an animal to die, get colonised by insects and microorganisms and be...
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Everyone knows that our great green and blue planet is rammed full of weird critters. However, I am still impressed with the extent of strangeness that mother nature throws at us. Recently, I came across...
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