Researchers from John Hopkins university studying 64 pregnant women in Baltimore, found that 23 of the 28 who suffered heartburn …Read the Rest
Blue Moon – 31st December 2009
This month is a blue moon month! Commonly speaking, we call a moon ‘blue’ when there are two full moons …Read the Rest
The relative cost of war – sad and astounding.
David McCandless (Information Is Beautiful .net) prepares interesting diagrams to present information and statistics in an accessible way. This one …Read the Rest
Man awake during 23 year coma – or was he?
As widely reported this week in the Daily Mail, abc , msn and other news media, a man in Belgium …Read the Rest
Most tigers in the world live in the USA!
You would be forgiven for thinking that tigers, although endangered, would be most prevalent in their native lands of India, …Read the Rest
How to decontaminate nuclear power stations for a few British pounds…
In 2009 it was revealed that Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland is using a household cleaning product, Cillit …Read the Rest
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This is a grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Amazingly, eight buffalo’s in a row …Read the Rest
Like a complete unknown…
Maybe we here at IF are getting on a bit, but we find the following account reported in The Telegraph …Read the Rest
Puss Caterpillar
This one gives us the absolute creeps! We’ve seen lots of wriggly, tickly and icky bugs in our time, but …Read the Rest
OMG! a Harris Hawk killed my camera (video)
This Harris Hawk kills the camera that is videoing it (Youtube). My camera is broken beyond repair. If you enjoyed …Read the Rest
Incredible newt uses its bones as weapons!
from BBC website: One amphibian has evolved a bizarre and gruesome defence mechanism to protect itself against predators. When attacked, …Read the Rest
Baby Cages!
The East Poplar borough council in London proposed to fix cages outside of their tenement windows, so that babies could …Read the Rest




