“Monument aux Martyrs” by prise par un touriste inconu – algerie. Licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons. As part of my long term project to write a short article on a...
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Slow motion videos of literally anything are cool, the internet seems to be addicted to them too. I’d happily watch a slow motion video of you scratching your arse and be transfixed for half...
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Source: bigweasel, Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic licence. I guess it’s not the greatest of accolades is it? – The smallest desert in the world. What is impressive is that...
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“Yes, I loved that pigeon, I loved her as a man loves a woman, and she loved me.” – Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla, born in 1856, was for modern science what Sir Isaac...
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It all began with Edward Scissorhands. That sweet, misunderstood outcast. When I was little, I used to get my dad to prosthetically cast scars on my face, then I’d walk around pinching together...
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“Kewaunee River” by Chris Rand – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Iceland. Aurora Borealis, hot springs, twisted daylight hours and Bjork. Folklore is still pretty archaic there too....
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Preserving culture is important for some people. Nationalists and patriots can get a little heavy-handed and tend not to accept cultures and traditions different from their own. However, smaller groups of humanity try to...
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Probably best known for the film series, Hellraiser and Candyman, Clive Barker has been at the helm of British horror since the 1980s. The Books of Blood, his series of short horror stories,...
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I love it when I come across an image of an animal that I don’t even recognise, and that’s what happened here with the wonderfully cute Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo. It’s named after Walter Goodfellow (1866–1953)...
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Simon Stålenhag, a talented Swedish artist, paints images of a fading science fiction future. He digitally creates his masterpieces with a Wacom tablet and pen. They aren’t post-apocalyptic, they seem to be pre-apocalytpic, humanity...
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