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Home Remedies
There is a theory that you can cure backache by rubbing a cabbage leaf on the part of the back that hurts. Ideally you should leave the leaf next to your skin for a few hours. The only snag with this is that if you’re in a warm room you will soon start to […]
Sex and Knitting
Sex and Knitting Americans have sex an average of six minutes per sexual encounter. These six minutes burn about twenty one calories. A person burns fifty-five calories by knitting for half an hour. Knitting was initially a male-only occupation. There were shepherds in the Landes swamps in France known as tchangues (big legs) who […]
Dragline
Often something that seems to come out of nowhere triggers unforeseen consequences. For spiders, this event was the appearance of major ampullate silk, or dragline silk, – the rappelling rope spiders depend on as they plunge through the air. It is one of the toughest materials on earth … from page 56 of ‘Spider Silk’ […]
It’s a First World problem
It’s a First World Problem but we must wrestle with the issue of how to name our streets without upsetting people. A homosexual couple in Borough Green, Kent, felt oppressed each time they walked down Bangays Way. An extra “g” in the middle might have kept them happy. In nearby Sevenoaks, the council is doing […]
A History of Pi
The architecture of the thugs differs from that of normal societies. It can often be recognized by the megalomaniac style of their public buildings. The Moscow subway is a faithful copy of the London Underground, except that its stations and corridors are filled with statues of homo sovieticus, a fictional species that stands (or sits […]
Day 12. A verbatim poem
Oooh, here’s a challenge. Construct a verbatim poem. What’s a Verbatim poem? Here’s a link to the Verbatim website: http://verbatimpoetry.blogspot.co.uk/p/how-to-write-verbatim-poem.html If you scroll down the left-hand side of the webpage you’ll see a whole raft of subject matter. Poems have been ‘found’ in text messages, Facebook conversations, bird books, railway announcements… You can submit your […]