Recently, I found some photos of a Russian monastery on the lake island of Valaam, near St Petersburg. They are amazing. The monastery is known as the Valaam Monastery, and the lake is called Ladoga....
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Currys, we love them over here on our rainy little island. According to Gallup, one in four of us eat curry at least once a week. They’ve been part of us for quite...
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Imagine you are living within a tribe on a remote island and you’ve never seen a white guy, never seen anyone wearing western clothes, never seen a cigarette, never been to Argos, never seen...
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Information is beautiful, a true fact and also the title of an amazing website made by David McCandless. He absolutely loves graphs and charts, and should you. McCandless started out as a graphic designer, which is...
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I’ve written quite a bit about the yeti, abominable snowman, Sasquatch triumvirate in my time. I’m not obsessed and I’m not an idiot. I just love the possibility. It could be there. COULD be....
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Flying fish? — no problem, we’ve all heard of them. How about squid that fly? Now that’s a different matter. Fishermen have, for years, suspected that some squid were somehow able to hop out of...
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Crufts is a funny business isn’t it? Lots of dogs all groomed to high heaven and proud people who care more about their dog than their own personal hygiene. I have nothing against dog...
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The International Space Station (ISS) is 450 metric tons of super charged, multinational, high-grade technological wizardry. It has been merrily orbiting the Earth at about 17,000 mph since the year 2000. Incredibly, that’s...
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“Meta-analysis” describes a statistical method that collates data from a number of sources and gives an answer more accurate than any of the single individual sources could alone. It doesn’t sound all that...
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Balloons have never held much fascination for me to be honest. I hate the sound of them inflating, I detest the squeaky sound they make as they are manhandled by children, and I...
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