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House for sale

By Animals

It never ceases to amaze me the different types of business opportunities people pursue – fashion accessories for your pet hermit crab

It’s a neutrino vs photon war

By Space and Aliens

No sooner, do I post a cartoon on the amazing speed of Neutrinos, then things all change.

It looks like the Photons are fighting back, supporting Einstein and his theory on relativity and claiming the prize for being the fastest in the Universe.  CERN released a press statement in February indicating that a faulty cable may be the reason for the faster than light speed measurements taken from our little friends the Neutrinos. See the UK Daily Mail for a non  scientific explanation. (I decided not to link the official CERN site press release as it was a bit heavy reading, but possibly more technically precise).

Carnivorous plants

By Animals

Carnivorous plants are also called insectivorous plants. (What’s with insectivorous? – an unimaginative biologist trying to come up with a new word or something?). Bet they never heard of the Nepenthes Rajah. It is known to prey on small reptiles and animals and has a ‘belly’ capacity of 3.5 litres. Here’s an image I found on the web.

One giant milkshake

By Secret lives of giants

Whilst playing farm yard animals with my daughter a few weeks back, she asked me if I wanted a glass of milk. Naturally keen to demonstrate a positive attitude towards all things wholesome and healthy I replied ‘yes please!’ She proceeded to squeeze the soft toy’s tummy over an empty cup. I decided to take it one step further in this cartoon and add the shake.

March Friday Freebie #3

By Freebies

Don’t they say good luck comes in 3’s? It’s a double whammy with collision of good luck and the third Friday freebie for the year.

Now, not that I like to whine or anything, but this freebie just about did my head in trying to create the template for the cartoons. Even if you’re not into freebies you could at least humour me by viewing the layout and construction. As an added bonus, it also has a cartoon which hasn’t been published on the website yet.

Click here if you want to see your surprise for the day.

Ring, ring. Anyone home?

By That's life

And a few facts about Mr Alexander Graham Bell you may not be familiar with:

  • Alexander Bell was born Scotland 1847. At the age of ten he asked his father to give him a middle name (like his brothers). On his 11th birthday he had a birthday ceremony and was given the middle name of Graham (chosen in honour of a family friend called Alexander Graham).
  • He was a founding member of the National Geographic Society
  • Before inventing the telephone, his career was following his father’s footsteps as a teacher of the deaf
  • Ironically, Bell never had a telephone in his study
  • Bell died in 1922 and at the end of his funeral service, all the telephones in North America were silenced in remembrance of the great man.

BYO brewery to have with your pizza

By Pot Luck

Did you know that the humble honey mushroom is the largest living (single) organism (by area) on earth, covering about 2,300 acres (that’s 1665 football fields!) in the Malheur National Forest, Oregon?  Not only is its size impressive, but its age too. Scientists estimate it to be anything between 2,400 and 8,600 years old.  Makes annual birthday cakes celebration a potential fire hazard!