Category: Fun
NASA parodies Meghan Trainor with ‘All About That Space’
Everyone loves the catchy beat of Meghan Trainor's smash hit 'All About That Bass', but not everyone's been quite as keen on the lyrics. Luckily, NASA's here to save us with their science-themed parody, 'All About That Space', and we love it. Yes, some of the dancing's a bit dodgy and yes, it goes on…
iPads can make penguins procreate (probably)
It’s been a big year for penguins. Not only have they embraced their robot brethren and starred in the best John Lewis Christmas ad of all time, like orangutans before them, they’ve now started using iPads – with unexpected side effects. As Fast Company reports, little magellanic penguins at the Aquarium of the Pacific in…
We tried the 30-second ‘wrapping hack’. It took 6 minutes.
This video of a man speed-wrapping boxes in a Japanese department store has been going crazy on the interwebs: At last, all our problems with wrapping regular-shaped boxes are over! Surely we, too, can flash-wrap our Christmas presents this way? Well, I gave it a go. And you know what? It's impossible. Not only does he do it too…
The BBC’s bringing JK Rowling’s The Cuckoo’s Calling to our screens
The Cuckoo’s Calling is coming to a small screen near you. Once mooted as a possible Hollywood blockbuster, the detective novel JK Rowling published under the pseudonym ‘Robert Galbraith’ is now being adapted by the BBC. Rowling won’t be writing it, but she'll apparently have a lot of input. Last year the literary world was…
How not to be a knob on social media at Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, every creature was tweeting – via touchscreen or mouse... Social media has entrenched itself in Christmas as firmly as sprouts or Michael Bublè, but that doesn't mean it always comes in peace. Here are the most common festive pitfalls to avoid being the knob everyone unfollows…
12 amazing alternative choices for your Christmas playlist
Christmas is coming, so prepare your aural senses for a bombardment of the same selection of Christmas songs we hear every year on repeat. If you want to mix things up a little this year, and have a party playlist that's not exactly the same as everyone else's, here are our top 12 choices. R2D2 We Wish…
New system makes spray-on solar panels a reality
Electrical engineers in Canada have developed a new, easy way to add solar panels to flexible surfaces. Illan Kramer is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and IBM Canada's Research and Development Centre. He and his colleagues found that using tiny, light-sensitive materials called colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) could make spray-on solar cells…
10 Christmas presents inspired by our favourite shows
Want to get something for the box-set binger in your life, but aware they've already got every episode ever made, including the blooper reel? Not to worry, thanks to production companies recognising the enduring appeal (and money-spinning potential) of merch, you have lots of other options, whether a programme's still on air (or Netflix) or…
The 17 stages of Serial addiction
Because we're just as hooked as the rest of you... Stage 1: Sweet oblivion Have they brought out a new type of Rice Krispies or what? Stage 2: Curiosity Ok, you're vaguely interested. You've heard people mention Cereal eight times in the last half hour and been too embarrassed to admit you've no idea…
Psych yourself up with our Black Friday playlist
So, it's Black Friday: that horrifying post-Thanksgiving day of hysteria and mad scrambling for the sales which has somehow osmosed into British society from America. The term 'Black Friday' originates from the city of Philadelphia, where swarms of frantic pedestrians would cause massive disruptions to traffic. Another explanation, according to Wikipedia, is that retailers traditionally operated…
