The History of English in 10 Minutes
Created by The Open University, this witty and informative ten-part series details the creation and history of the wife-swapping bastard that is the English Language. Just to do something different...
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Vintage Photos of Soldiers Kissing Loved Ones Good-bye Oh hell no… Rush Hour 4 Confirmed Oh hell yes… Unbaby.me replaces baby photos on Facebook ‘with awesome stuff’ “Terminated”: Pepper-Spraying UC...
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Amphipod: zoomed in from 1 milimeter to 500 nanometers New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000 AD Stanford biologist and computer scientist discover the ‘anternet’ Semen: Nature’s...
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More amazing splash photography by Markus Reugels via This is Colossal Hrmm… 2012 was the best year yet? How the internet is accelerating the evolution of language 12 Letters that didn’t make it into...
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A gamer ‘leaked’ fake news on the new Xbox and it went mainstream within hours, wonderfully re-illustrating just how easy it is to be a ‘source’ in today’s ‘information age’. Nicely done, though seems...
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A few notes on The Culture by Iain M Banks A Nigerian cook survived 2 days underwater in a shipwreck air bubble CIA Releases Analyst’s Fascinating Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture Why France...
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Evolution of the alphabet I really should be posting this stuff more often rather than piling up these posts over the course of days. Well, should… So Cool: A surgical knife that diagnoses caner almost...
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Earth from Saturn’s orbit via Cassini Share it like Cicero: How Roman authors used social networking The Sun, gravitational lensing and the 70 billion mile telescope DNA from a Russian cave: The Case...
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Psychopaths don’t lack empathy, they just have a switch for it Serco: the company that is running Britain ‘Rivers’ in air could boost flooding Scientists discover what’s killing the bees They Finally...
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by Jean-Yves Lemoigne Trending: The ethics of live-tweeting a break-up English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet Jack Vale’s social media experiment on people’s ‘privacy’ Why Hot Water Freezes...
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Delusional Doppelgängers: The Three Christs of Ypsilanti State Hospital I’m Sick Of Pretending: I Don’t “Get” Art NASA outlines ingenious plan to resurrect the Kepler planet hunter A spurned techie’s...
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