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‘Between Antipodes’
A short story by Rebecca Freeborn: The wheels of the plane made contact with the runway and the graceful silver bird became a heavy, ungainly beast, jolting and roaring its protest. I stared out at the...
View Article‘Dammit, I’m Mad’
A palindrome is a word or a phrase that is the same when read from the start or the end. For example the word ‘wow’ or ‘racecar’, or the phrase ‘A Toyota’s a Toyota’. Listing palindromes can be easy...
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These Arms Are…
One morning, during the annual SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, on a console table in the hallway of my hotel I discovered this scribbling, apparently refering to the band These Arms Are Snakes (and a...
View ArticleA Time Lapse Experiment: ‘Decomposition’
Who would have thought fruit was so hardy? Certainly not me when I decided to undertake a time lapse experiment, documenting the decomposition of a pair of apples. I set up my plate of apples and my...
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Down With Design (But Disinterested In The Wedding)
Inherent in the planning and execution of any wedding are various design elements – from the look of the invitations to the plan for the seating arrangement, from the flowers to, perhaps most...
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The Interrobang’s Big 5-0
It is 50 years this month since the typographic symbol, the interrobang, was debuted to the world. The first new punctuation mark for 300 years, it enjoyed a short but dazzling period of success in the...
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A Super Scientific Coincidence
There’s kryptonite in that thar… Natural History Museum. A mineral with the same composition as Superman’s only natural weakness is on display in the Earth’s Treasury gallery at the London museum....
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To Be, Or Have, A Mermaid
Like ancient mythologists, Victorian curiosity collectors, and countless little girls before me, I have a soft spot for mermaids. I spent my formative years living by the beach, so the idea of being...
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Phlegm’s fascinating debut, The Bestiary
>> Originally published on Yahoo! In a gallery in the heart of London street art territory a Sheffield muralist is bringing the medieval to the hip modern masses. The Bestiary is the debut...
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Nothing To See Here
Spotted in Holborn, west central London: What’s the (in)significance of September 5, 1782, you might ask? It seems no one really knows for sure… The date warrants a Wikipedia entry in relation to...
View ArticleDo Pets Go To Heaven?
An obscure tip-off led me down a path in Hyde Park, where I happened upon an unusually unlocked gate. Pushing through it, then through dense thicket, I arrived at a pint sized cemetery. Here, 120-odd...
View ArticleA Skirt Of Stones
Before Thomas Hardy embarked full time on the poetry and writing for which he is celebrated today, he studied architecture in London. It was during this period in the 1860s that the Midland Railway...
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