David McCandless (Information Is Beautiful .net) prepares interesting diagrams to present information and statistics in an accessible way. This one …Read the Rest

As widely reported this week in the Daily Mail,  abc , msn and other news media, a man in Belgium …Read the Rest

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

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…

56, September 3, 2009
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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

01, September 2, 2009
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This one gives us the absolute creeps! We’ve seen lots of wriggly, tickly and icky bugs in our time, but …Read the Rest

This Harris Hawk kills the camera that is videoing it (Youtube). My camera is broken beyond repair. If you enjoyed …Read the Rest

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!

13, August 21, 2009
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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

UFOs in classical art

38, August 12, 2009
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UFOs in classical art

The ‘net abounds with claims of UFOs appearing in antiquity, evidenced by artworks from centuries ago that depict unidentified flying …Read the Rest

The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues

Everyone has heard of the Seven Deadly Sins (or Seven Vices), but there are actually a corresponding set of Seven …Read the Rest

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