10 best celebrity Twitter moments of 2014

[nextpage title="Next"] 2014 was the year of the selfie, the belfie, and just Kim Kardashian generally. We're pretty sure we'll never get that image of her naked in Paper out of our minds. From THAT Oscar selfie to Lorde just being generally outspoken and amazing, we're taking a look back at the 10 best celebrity…

How Twitter was a force for good in 2014

Twitter may well have been overtaken by Instagram of late, but it's still an incredibly powerful internet tool. Nothing spreads news quite like it, so yes, we may now be four days into the new year, but it's worth casting our minds back to see what we can learn from the Twittersphere of 2014 -…

9 incredible films to inspire your travels this year

[nextpage title="Next"] There’s something undeniably refreshing about entering a new calendar year. Consciously or unconsciously, you may be looking to make a change in your life – and that change could involve travelling. Whether it’s hiking through the Welsh hills, a trip around Australia, an extended stay on a remote island you’ve dreamed of all…

Study shows birds slur their ‘words’ when they’re drunk, too

I’m not saying they’re not doing important and potentially world-changing work, but sometimes, some scientists seem like they might be having a little too much fun at their jobs. This is one of those times. As The Washington Post reports, researchers from Oregon Health and Science University got a bunch of birds drunk recently –…

Scientists have designed gravity-proof espresso cups for the International Space Station

If there’s one place you don’t want to be struggling through the day in a caffeine-deprived haze, it’s space. Now astronauts at the International Space Station (and soon, singer/Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ex Sarah Brightman, weirdly enough) won’t have to miss out on the brainpower-restoring impact of real coffee thanks to a new espresso cup made…

15 short, thought-provoking novels to read over the Christmas period

[nextpage title="Next"] Ah, Christmas – it’s the time of year when almost every one of us wants as much time off as we can wangle. If you’ve succeeded in eking out an extra few days of holiday and it’s been as relaxing as you’d hoped, you may have found yourself munching on mince pies, watching…
new year's resolutions

More replies, fewer photos of sky: my social media resolutions for 2015

Because these are slightly easier than giving up cheese. I will take one photo of the sky a week, maximum I daren't look it up for fear it's something ominous to do with climate change, but I SWEAR the sky is more beautiful these days than it used to be. Or perhaps I'm just more boring these…

Nostalgia overload: the best Christmas toy every year from 1985 to now

No matter when you were born, today's toys aren't a patch on the ones you had when you were a kid. Take a nostalgia-tinted trip through time with our rundown of the top toy every Christmas since '85. [nextpage title="next"] 1985: Transformers Transformers the cartoon launched in 1984, and was basically a giant advert to…

Our favourite last-minute gift of 2014: a subscription to bacon

Subscription boxes have exploded this year (er, not literally) – you can subscribe to everything from the more traditional beauty products to geek goods, cheese, even tampons. But we've found one that beats them all: bacon. Cure & Simple are a UK-based company that offer a weekly, fornightly or monthly delivery of bacon, and you…