Can you cure type 2 diabetes by fasting? I’ll find out.
Can fasting cure type 2 diabetes? It seems like it is possible and is something I am in a position to find out – as I have it. A brief … Read More
Category: Life!
Writings about anything that takes my fancy
The Gorilla Who Was Brought up as a Boy in an English Village
I wrote this sad story about a gorilla raised in a small English village for Medium earlier this year. It went massively viral with 63,000 reads. And that was behind … Read More
Sir Patrick Stewart’s ‘A Sonnet A Day’ helps self-isolate
Unless you are a wanker, you are probably self-isolating right now. Well, Sir Patrick Stewart is here to help the boredom by reading a Shakespearean sonnet every day. As someone … Read More
Robotic stingray made from rat cells
A scientist called Kevin Kit Parker went to an aquarium with his daughter and saw a stingray. Thinking, as I have often thought myself, ‘That’s pretty cool, we should have robots built from gold, silicone, and rat heart-cells that behave and act like that.’
Tribute to Voyager space program is damn inspiring
Here is an amazing video made by a talented fellow called Santiago Menghini. It’s a tribute to NASA’s Voyager space program and combines real footage, recorded sounds, Voyager images, animation and more, into a very cool little film.
Charge your phone using the power of plants
Thanks to science, photosynthesis, soil, our lord the Sun and a clever group of people, you can now charge your phone using plant power.
Genuine wrinkle cream that really works
Anyone who has not seen this site before will now assume that I am a spammer thanks to a headline about wrinkle cream. I’m sure you have all seen those … Read More
Eggstatic – stroboscopic Easter Egg patterns
I would have loved a day off designing complicated devices and designs for eggs. These are really cool. I can sum up with: Eggs + computing skills + robot + camera/strobe + imagination = cool Easter eggs.
Our Solar System is a vortex
Although I knew the solar system was flying around the super black hole at the middle of the galaxy (which is itself on the move), I never really envisage that movement.
Temple of Art
The Temple of Art is a documentary (and website) about what it is like to be an artist. Although not just an artist, just generally creative. There are lots of writers, musicians, directors and actors, etc, featured, and the end result is damned inspiring.
The Solar System to scale
I saw this video about recreating the solar system to scale and it’s really well done. My thoughts were provoked. So I thought I would share. To quote Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
Apple phone controls ants!
This clip has been doing the rounds recently, so I thought share in case you got too excited or impressed. It is basically proof that Apple phones scramble your brains.
China to build Mega City One, Jing-jin-ji
China’s Idea is to build a mega-city called Jing-jin-ji that encompasses the nine major conurbations that surround the Pearl River delta.
Free Eyesight Test
Who do you see in the picture? Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe? If Monroe, then you’d better pop to the opticians. There is some quite cool science behind this but it basically boils down to how we recognise faces.
How observant are you?
I thought I was fairly observant but then the internet came along and proved me wrong.
The danger of reporting next to burning drugs
This is what can happen if you try and do a report next to a big pile of burning drugs. Hilarity!
Star Wars Christmas Lights
Some crazed fan of Christmas, Star Wars, John Williams, and Christmas Lights has gone all out. If you want better Star Wars Christmas lights, you have a lot of work ahead of you.
LLSB – Long Live Southbank
The Southbank also has a place for skateboarders which has been there since I was a kid. It has been there for forty years.
Rising seas interactive map
A friend just posted this on Facebook. It’s basically a map that shows what will happen if the sea levels rise.
The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense
Finding Bigfoot or being able to levitate or seeing a ghost (when you haven’t coincidentally just woken up) would be amazing and make the world much more interesting. But sadly a tiny bit of research from a purely subjective point of view shows them to be rubbish.