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A collection of 155 issues

High heels and hospitals

BBC News: Experts warn of high-heel danger. Women are paying the price for fashion in the form of broken bones and sprained ankles, a doctor has warned. The warm weather has led to a spate of injuries caused by women falling from their high-heeled sandals. Rupert Evans, an accident and

Disappearing teaspoons

Found this on the Magpi: The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute.From the introduction: In January 2004 the authors found their tearoom bereft of teaspoons. Although a flunky (MSCL) was rapidly dispatched to purchase a new batch,

Spam Humour

"Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;" Monty Python A few

Name that road

BBC News: Psycho Path 'craziest' road in US. A street in the US state of Michigan has won the dubious honour of being chosen as the most bizarrely named of more than 2,500 entries. Psycho Path won first prize in a competition run by an American website.

Juice content

It's been bugging me for a while that there are a shelf-load of drinks out there with varying juice contents (1%, 5%, 7.3%) and no-one's explained what that actually means beyond the raw facts. So I present you with my handy juice level explaination chart.

Watery News

BBC News: Whale spotted in central London. A large whale has been spotted in the River Thames in central London by boaters and sightseers. The mammal, thought to be a 17ft (5m) northern bottle-nosed whale, was seen swimming past the Houses of Parliament. "I saw it blow, it was

Oxo cubes

BBC News: Gravy train to success for artist. A Tyneside artist has followed in the footsteps of Andy Warhol by using a well-known kitchen brand name to create a work of art. Paul Birdsall, from Newcastle, has crafted four sculptures using nothing more than Oxo cubes. The crumbly brown cubes,

Annual gobbledegook

BBC News: 9 things that make no sense. Each year the Plain English Campaign nominates examples of gobbledegook. And each year the Magazine shares the joy. So here are nine statements, chosen by the campaign, which could perhaps do with some re-working. 1. Rhodri Morgan, Welsh First Minister, for: "

Ig Nobel 2005

The 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes are out! Seeing the winners makes me proud to have a science degree. Check out the past winners, there are some real gems. Penguin poo wins Ig Nobel prize. Cutting edge studies on artificial dogs' testicles, locusts which watch Star Wars, and penguin defaecation

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