I’m always pleased when I learn a new word. Today’s welcome addition to my brain pipes is “arborsculpture.” Arborsculpture is the teasing of trees into useful or attractive shapes. Not only did I...
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Who’s this Seamore the screaming seal then? I dunno. I don’t know where he lives or what his favourite band is or anything. I just know that he enjoys making a really weird...
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Whenever I see a picture of an animal that I’ve never seen before I’m always taken aback which is a pretty stupid response really. After all there’s between 3 and 30 million species in the world (depending...
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British birds are wonderful and hold their own private mysteries, but if you want to see some really weird birds, you have to fly further afield. This feathered wonder — the potoo —...
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Goats. Are. Amazing. They’re pretty stupid too, though, which sometimes comes across as bravery. They certainly don’t suffer from vertigo either way. There’s over 300 breeds of goat, and they were one of...
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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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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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These pictures come from a recent food festival in South Korea which featured this magniloquent delicacy: live octopus. The larger ones are cut up and eaten whilst the tentacles are still wriggling and the...
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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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I’ve been running lazerhorse.org for a little while now, other than the lashings of fame and cash that it brings me, my favourite thing is the data. I know I sound like a right old...
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