Why do the dimples on golf balls make them fly further?
Those cute little dimples on golf balls aren’t just for decoration. They have a very real practical use.
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How to fail with real elan – Some Heroic Failures
It’s part of the human experience that despite our best efforts “Things just don’t work”. Here we look at some amusing examples of how to fail with real elan.
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Unusual Animal Collectives
You’d be surprised at what the ‘official’ English collective nouns are for groups of animals, we certainly were when we looked into it.
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Beware the Ides of March : The Great Caesar is Assasinated
“Beware the Ides of March!”, the augur Spurinna had warned a few days before the 15 March in 44 BC , but the great Julius Caesar had brushed him aside. Was he not, at 55, the most powerful man in the civilised world?
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How do Astronauts wash in space?
If you’re one of the human races few that are going to “boldly go where no man has gone before”, then keeping clean could be a problem in zero-gravity
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