An Uncomfortable Trait

An Uncomfortable Trait

Twenty years ago, the highly-acclaimed documentary called ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ centred around talks that the US Vice President (or, as he introduced himself, “I used to be the next President”) Al Gore delivered on the severe threat of global warming to this world,...
Knock Knock

Knock Knock

Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Wyatt Earp, Jesse James were all legends (some lawmen, others rebels) of the Wild West, often portrayed in some of the classic Western films of old. They were tough, rough and hard-nosed, opportunistic, which they had to be in order to...
Out of the XBox

Out of the XBox

John Logie Baird is accredited with inventing the television in 1925 when he managed to produce moving silhouette images and a live human face using a mechanical scanning disc. Eleven years later, the BBC launched the world’s first regular high-definition...
Serious Fun

Serious Fun

We will have to admit it – the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge in China is seriously impressive, being the longest bridge in the world, stretching over a railway viaduct for sixteen kilometres. Indeed, it would seem that China can boast claim to many of the longest...
We Ask Questions

We Ask Questions

We will all have come across numerous ‘Knock Knock’ jokes, most of which would safely be filed under the heading ‘predictable’ or ‘corny’.  Take the one that goes, “Knock, knock. Who’s there? Nobel. Nobel who? Nobel … that’s why I knocked”. Or what about the one...