If you’re a little squeamish (or you’re eating something), you might want to give this one a miss… We’re all going to die (except me, hopefully) so what better way to spend our remaining time on earth than by thinking about what happens to the...
As everyone knows, robots are soon going to rise up and take over the planet. It’s inevitable. So it’s difficult to know how concerned we should be about DR Congo’s new traffic robots – supposedly they’re “intelligent”, so...
Things are always disappearing. Socks are the most famous disappearing thing, but car keys are popular too, and the TV remote control. A working stapler can vanish from your office desk in the blink of an eye (even if you’ve written your name on it). My earliest...
Here are eight of our favourite facts: Brazil Finland Hungary Indonesia Japan Netherlands Morocco Puerto Rico Other features Here are some of the other things the InsureandGo mobile app can do: Holiday countdown – Tell us where and when you’re going away and, in the...
If I had any advice for young people going up to secondary school, it would be the following: work hard, and don’t put your hands under the tables. The first is obvious; you do need to listen and do all that homework, but the second hardly sounds like a...
A few months ago, we wrote about Okunoshima, the island that has been taken over by rabbits. Well, now, we bring you Tashirojima, the island that has been taken over by cats. Prepare yourself for a cute overload! This small Japanese island has a population of around...
To most of us, mushrooms are just a type of food – a spongy plate-filler to be either gobbled up or brushed aside, according to our personal tastes. However, there are roughly 14,000 species and only a very small number of these are ever chopped up and covered in...
Gardening is seen as a therapeutic hobby – and rightly so too. There’s nothing quite like watching something you put into the ground and watered grow to its full beauty. We tend to buy and pot plants that make our gardens and parks look prettier, but there are...
Let’s set the scene: it’s mid-to-late August, it’s scorching, the crops yearn for water and the people depend on the crops in order to survive the winter. When in drought, rain dance! Native American tribes perform a ceremonial dance that has been...
Imagine a massive, burning hole in the ground. Or, if you’ve got no imagination, look at these pictures. Soviet engineers were drilling for oil in Derweze, Turkmenistan, when this giant pit opened up beneath their feet. Similar to the holes that sometimes appear...
