When asked which is the fastest critter on God’s green earth, most people would answer “cheetah”. That’s not such a daft answer, the cheetah is the fastest animal on land. Others might answer marlin...
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František Kupka is a new find for me, many thanks to James from The Seance Radio for pointing me in the correct direction to receive his wonder. Kupka (1871 – 1957) was a Czech painter...
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I apologise for the basic and low-brow nature of this post; literally no thought whatsoever has gone into it. I’m just posting a bunch of photos of baby hippos. I don’t know what’s wrong with...
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How do you make an extreme sport more extreme? Just add fire. Simple as that. Here’s a video of a Red Bull surfer surfing with a flare strapped to the back of his board....
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The Hortus deliciarum is a medieval, illuminated encyclopedia compiled by Herrad of Landsberg at the Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace. Herrad’s work on the document began in 1167 in her convent (yes Herrad was a woman, of all things)....
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The fabled “new car smell” induces weak knees in around 55% of males; it can induce them to spend inordinate amounts of cash on a mode of transport. I wanted to know what was involved in...
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BEHOLD THE SCIENTIFICALLY DESIGNED MOSH SIMULATOR!!! Every once in a while scientists do some work that is not only groundbreaking and fascinating, but also hypnotic and beautiful to boot. A paper titled “Collective Motion of Moshers...
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Chemistry, pharmacology and biochemistry can be pretty impenetrable, but it seems that chemists, pharmacologists and biochemists aren’t afraid of a bit of tongue in cheek tomfoolery. I can’t work out whether the rock...
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Despite being very poorly studied, the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) has one of the most publicly recognised forms of all the whale family. This fame is, in part, due to Melville’s haunting Moby...
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NanoPutians are a series of organic chemicals that were designed to inspire children about science. At least that’s the official line. I’m pretty sure a bunch of scientists were just mucking about for...
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