The Potoo: Nature’s Most Surprised Bird
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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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Google’S Hot Search Visualisation Is Mesmerising
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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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Sơn Đoòng – World’s Biggest Cave
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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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The Duck Billed Platypus: Weirder Than You Thought
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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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China Build Copy Cat English Town Called Thames Town
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You may remember a post I recently published covering a Chinese town, built to look like Paris that had become a ghost town. Here’s a similar story, but this time it’s called ‘Thames Town’ and...
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Kim Jong-un Has Ex Machine Gunned To Death
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UPDATE 18TH MAY 2014: Hyon Song-wol, after a year or so has been spotted being interviewed on the telly box in North Korea. It turns out she’s not dead at all! North...
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Fourth National Beard And Moustache Competition Winner
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For those of you that aren’t familiar with my face, I am bearded. Don’t get too jealous though, I’ve not got the sort of beard coverage that I’ve always dreamed of. It’s a...
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How Big Is A Wolf?
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How big is a wolf? That’s a tricky question to answer because they vary in size by species and by location. But, while looking for an average measurement, it became clear that there...
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Women Pirates: Jeanne de Clisson – The Lioness Of Brittany
Today’s fearsome lady pirate, Jeanne de Clisson, was born Jeanne-Louise de Belleville, Dame de Montaiga in the year 1300. She became known as the Lioness of Brittany, and for good reason, if the...
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Ann Bonny – Another Fearsome Female Pirate
I wrote about a Chinese pirate queen called Ching Shi the other day and found it all rather interesting so I thought I’d learn about another femme fatale of the blustery high seas....
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