Funnilogy

A few weeks ago we went with friends to the Cotswolds for a few days of respite from the city. We had such a great time, and looking at these now, I just want to go straight back there. When we’re there we always go for the same walk, and this time was no different.

Why Some Indigenous Cultures May Not Have Back Pain

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:07:00 +0300

Deadly dish: the dinner that can give you cancer

The Offbeat History Of Our Species

Five Islands We Are Really Sick Of

Half ‘have natural flu protection’

Test fitness at primary school, say health campaigners

Can Ecstasy Replace Xanax?

Cure for cancer one step closer after ‘spectacular’ breakthrough

Injecting Electronics Into Brain Not as Freaky as it Sounds

Lost Posture: Why Some Indigenous Cultures May Not Have Back Pain

Artificial leg allows patient to feel

Stretchy wearable sensors can tell when you’re about to get sunburnt

Your Brain Actually Doesn’t Suck At Passwords

Tokyo Sexwale Is A Real Person

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:04:00 +0300

Iran’s Spies Tried to Recruit Me

Rise of the ripped

The World in 2100, According to NASA’s New Big Dataset

High-speed cameras capture how bouncing rain spreads crop disease

The addictive, hilarious, and endearingly sincere fashion guides of wikiHow

Tent City in the Heartland: The Life and Death of the Chickahominy Indian Tribal Rescue Mission

Alabama residents and geologists perplexed by spate of earthquakes

U.S. Is Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in Eastern Europe

Man behind Darpa’s robotics challenge: robots will soon learn from each other

Tokyo Sexwale Is A Real Person, Will Lead The FIFA Monitoring Committee on Palestine

Sony’s VR Push Hinges On The Game We Thought We’d Never Play

Of Course a Swede Designed This Beautiful Arcade Machine

A sentimental education: inside the school that Tilda built

The Venice of the Sands in Peril

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:05:00 +0300

In Rwanda, Building a “University in a Box”

The Plan to Move an Entire Swedish Town

The Skyscraper of the Future

The Venice of the Sands in Peril

Vladimir Putin Is Destroying My Dream Home

The Cursed History of the Lemp Family Mansion

Canadian Apocalypse

Friday Games

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:31:00 +0300

Berzerk Ball 2

Dark Cut

Circle Space

The Impossible Quiz 2

For your amusement: match the theme park to the movie – quiz 8/10. Not sure how!

Flags of North and Central America %80 for me

The Fascinating Phenomenon of Whistled Languages

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 26 May 2015 14:12:00 +0300

Textspeak Is Modernizing the Egnlish Language (*English)

A Fashionable Melange of English Words (1887)

The Fascinating Phenomenon of Whistled Languages

In English, there’s an idiom that notes confusion: “It’s all Greek to me.” Other languages have similar sayings, but they don’t use Greek as their point of confusion

All the Young Dudes: Generic Gender Terms Among Young Women

Fanf–kingtastic and Edumacational: The Case of English Infixation

Fantastic words with no easy translation in other languages

14 wonderful words with no English equivalent

Thirsty? NSFW? Here are the top ten slang terms which parents just don’t understand

The Rise of ‘Mama’

How I learned a language in 22 hours

Friday Games

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 22 May 2015 11:27:00 +0300

Bush Whacker 2

Room Escape Game “Elements”

Butcher

1066 and all that: 20 questions to test your history knowledge 8/20

Starlight 2

Jelly Blocks

Biolab Disaster

Children’s poetry quiz: finish the line 4/10

Familiar patterns

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 22 May 2015 08:10:00 +0300

The Most Extreme View Into Deep Space

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 21 May 2015 20:05:00 +0300

Biography of a space telescope: Voices of Hubble

What fuels Saturn’s superstorms? New theory explains ‘great white spots’

Chasing comets together

Coloured Pluto comes into view

Ten things you might not know about antimatter

The Most Extreme View Into Deep Space

Nasa has a ‘warp drive’ that could zip people to the moon in just hours

The Earth now has a flag for when we reach Mars

The Science Of Craving

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 20 May 2015 17:04:00 +0300

The Science Of Craving

Liberia Is Declared Free of Ebola, but Officials Sound Note of Caution

The answer to tackling superbugs could be … more superbugs

The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See

When the Brain Can’t Make Its Own Maps

How to Get Over Getting Tired

L’Oreal’s Plan to Start 3D Printing Human Skin

Human Ingenuity Takes On Cancer’s Darwinian Ways

The Extreme Athlete Who Built A New Knee

We Need More Autopsies, to Help Save the Living

The levitating man

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 20 May 2015 11:31:00 +0300

5 Strange Ways Animal Mothers Carry Their Babies

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 19 May 2015 11:30:00 +0300

Elephant Watch

Famous Cougar That Was Holed Up Under L.A. House Returns to Wild

8 Amazing Animals at Risk From Wildlife Crimes

Pictures: Baby Goats, More Animal Survivors Rescued in Nepal

Shh! This tiny domesticated red fox is trying to sleep!

How many lions are left in the wild?

How Injured Birds Get New Feathers—It May Surprise You

5 Strange Ways Animal Mothers Carry Their Babies

Four drunk goats taken to hospital after falling unconscious from drinking illicit liquor

Elusive Amur tigers captured in brilliant images

5 myths and superstitions about owls

Fox cubs prove they’re just puppies at heart

Strange and surprising facts about how animals sleep

The UK’s hedgehog population has shown a dramatic decline over the last 60 years. But there are ways you can help them

Horse Facts

Penguins Use Poop for Landscaping | Time-Lapse Video

100 British conservation groups oppose review of EU wildlife laws

Wild boar smashed through ceiling of Hong Kong clothing store

Photos: The week in wildlife

Pet parrot pulls out boy’s wobbly tooth

Animal pictures of the week

Iberian lynx cubs born in the wild bring hope for the world’s most endangered feline species

The Daily Wild: Nature’s Most Incredible Creatures

Some of the Best Moms Are Wild Animals

This Is The Last Remaining Male Northern White Rhino In The World

19 Animals Who Are So Over Mondays

Sinister parrot enters room

Cave-Climbing Fish Found

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 18 May 2015 11:12:00 +0300

Where Will the Great White Shark Celebrity Mary Lee Go Next?

Watch: Cave-Climbing Fish Found—Is It Evolution in Action?

50 whales may be a new (and very endangered) species

Watch these fabulous flying rays

Mystery surrounds dead whale discovered on Spanish beach

Whales in Gulf of Mexico face endangered status as drilling moves in

Watch: Crab Tickles Shellfish for Hours to Find Love

Boat owner surprised to find baby sea lion snoring and sneezing on the bunk next to him

Sunbathing seal spotted 40 miles inland in Cambridgeshire

Jellyfish in the UK: Huge blooms of barrel species found on coast after mini-heatwave

Great white sharks – the misunderstood giants with a softer side

Gigantic whales have super cool ‘bungee cord’ nerves

Endangered Arctic Whales Make Rare Appearance Far From Home

See How Close Oil Drilling Will Get to Arctic Whales This Summer

An education (of sorts)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 18 May 2015 08:11:00 +0300

A friend of mine has recently started on a photography course, and asked me a few weeks ago if we could go for a camera walk on Hampstead Heath. She wanted me to show her how I take pictures, and it was such an interesting experience. To try and verbalise how I do something I don’t actually think about and do intuitively was really fun. I’m not saying that I’m a teacher or that I know it all, but I pointed out that there are certain things to look for if you want to make a picture more interesting. In a nutshell: light, shadows, the negative space, scale, angles (get down on the ground!) and one of my all time faves: silhouettes – the one that my friend was most excited by. They turned out to be a revelation! Next time I’m taking her to the Barbican, which is my favourite place in the whole of London to take pictures. Can’t wait to see what she makes of it.

Three orphaned animals rescued when they're young are now inseparable.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 May 2015 23:27:00 +0300

This is Leo the African lion, Baloo the black bear,
and Shere Khan the Bengal tiger.

The threesome were rescued as babies from the basement of an Atlanta drug dealer during a raid by the authority.

They were starving, traumatized and had bacterial infections.

Since then, they were brought to Noah’s Ark Animal Sanctuary….

…….where they stayed in the same

habitat together for 13 years.

The only time the three were separated was when Baloo was sent to surgery. (While at the drug dealer’s home, Baloo had been mistreated so profoundly that the harness that

was put on him had grown into his skin. )

The two cats were distraught and cried for the bear’s

return when he was at the vet’s. Since then

no one has separated the group.

They were clearly bonded during their earliest

memories and never wanted to be apart.

Now they live together as if they were

brothers of the same species.

This threesome is the only lion, tiger and

bear living together in the world.

They’re just that exceptional.

No one ever told them they couldn’t love

one another, so they did just that.

They play together, nuzzle one other

and are extremely affectionate.

Humans could really learn from the

bond that these three have.

And now, even after so many years, they continue to do so.

The trio are affectionately referred as BLT, standing for Bear, Lion and Tiger. They might just be the most adorable sandwich ever!

Many thanks to Thomas Eapen for sharing.

Alan CY Kok

Friday Games

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 May 2015 11:05:00 +0300

Every day the same dream

Push Out Fans

Time for a tune up: match the actor to their pop single – quiz 1/10

The toughest 80s movie quiz ever 7/15

A dose of culture

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 May 2015 20:06:00 +0300

What do you know… I’m behind with blogging again. Groundhog day anyone? I find that I just don’t want to park myself in front of the computer these days, but as it’s raining and pretty horrible today, I might as well sit myself down and get on with it. A few weekends ago we met up with friends and went to Tate Britain, which we all really enjoyed. When visiting museums or galleries with children it always feels like you’re in there on borrowed time, and that at any point they could get bored and want to leave, way before you yourself would want to (which is why I sometimes go twice to an exhibition). Most places cater towards kids and will offer art trails and packs that turns your visit into more of a game or an art hunt. This time I realised that it takes away from the experience and that you quickly walk around the exhibits, ticking stuff of a list instead of properly looking and talking about what you see and what it makes you feel. From now on I’m going to try and ignore those trails and enjoy hearing the kids interpretations, as they’re so much more fun and interesting!