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Core insect anatomy

Head, thorax - with 6 legs or wings, abdomen and an exoskeleton and you have an insect. One of over a million species. As impressive as snowflakes.…

29 Dec 2013

Ghost cooking

The art of cooking leaving a sparkling, untouched, kitchen.…

28 Dec 2013

Film credits: the best source of baby name inspiration

Especially when there’s lots of special effects.…

27 Dec 2013

If its not good enough for bugs, it’s not good enough for you

When food seems indestructible you should be suspicious.…

26 Dec 2013

Common wood joints

Miter, Mortise & tenon, and Dovetail. Lovely.…

25 Dec 2013

The offside rule

Clearer now? In other news, I think the offside rule should be changed in football so that the goalkeeper doesn’t count when evaluating offside. Always seems stupid to me when the standard definition involves ‘the last defender’ but the technical definition is the 'second-to-last defender’ because the goalkeeper is usually one of those. Let’s just not count the goalkeeper and make the thing simpler.…Clearer now? In other news, I think the offside rule should be changed in football so that the goalkeeper doesn’t count when evaluating offside. Always seems stupid to me when the standard definition involves ‘the last defender’ but the technical definition is the 'second-to-last defender’ because the goalkeeper is usually one of those. Let’s just not count the goalkeeper and make the thing simpler.

24 Dec 2013

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