Writings about anything that takes my fancy
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 history of getting type 2 diabetes I found out I had type 2 diabetes about four years ago. I knew that losing weight was one…
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 a paywall. It’s a great story, even ignoring my fine prose, so I thought I would share it for free. (Although feel free to click…
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 who writes for a living and then spends his downtime writing more, reading, gaming and watching films / TV, self-isolation is pretty much something I…
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.’
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.
Thanks to science, photosynthesis, soil, our lord the Sun and a clever group of people, you can now charge your phone using plant power.
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 stupid ads at the bottom of websites that claim to clear wrinkles better than botox. They often have a picture with a wrinkled visage being…
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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’s Idea is to build a mega-city called Jing-jin-ji that encompasses the nine major conurbations that surround the Pearl River delta.
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.
I thought I was fairly observant but then the internet came along and proved me wrong.
This is what can happen if you try and do a report next to a big pile of burning drugs. Hilarity!
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.
A friend just posted this on Facebook. It’s basically a map that shows what will happen if the sea levels rise.
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.