Fireworks and pyrotechnic displays have become common for modern celebrations like New Year’s and Bonfire Night. Each year on the 5th November, thousands of people around the country gather on cold soggy fields in the dark to watch incredible fireworks displays....
Once, on a day trip to the beach, I saw hundreds of dead jellyfish washed up on the sand. What could’ve happened? How did they get there? Why were there so many? These were just some of the questions I didn’t stop to ask. Instead of showing a natural...
I love churches, cathedrals and temples. They’re definitely my favourite kind of buildings. There are plenty of beautiful buildings in the world but there’s always going to be something extra special about one that’s been built to worship a higher...
UFO sightings are reported by people from all over the world. Captured on their camera phones (and some with a bit of help from Photoshop too), unidentified flying objects bewilder both believers and non-believers. I don’t know about you, but I’m most...
Halloween, an excuse to eat excessive amounts of sweets and douse yourself in gallons of fake blood. Well, that’s how the majority of the UK seem to celebrate the remembrance of the dead, anyway. But to be honest, all that nonsense doesn’t really interest...
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...
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...
