World’s Strangest

Apparently years and years of medical schooling isn’t enough to make good doctors. They also need to go to … clown school! Just kidding. A charity in Northern Ireland is recruiting clowns to entertain sick children in hospitals and hospices: Clowndoctor Elaine Duncan, aka Dr Twinkle, said she loved to see the smiles on children’s faces. “The children [...]

Photo: NASA Michael Mautner of Virginia Commonwealth University says that part of the human condition we enjoy is a responsibility to ensure life continues after our home, Earth, dies. It will happen, someday. And panspermia missions now will fulfill our moral obligation to see that life on other planets gets a fair chance, even if we [...]

Karl Rabeder grew up poor and thought that life would be wonderful if he had money. But when he got rich, Karl discovered that he was unhappy … so he decided to give away every penny of his £3 million fortune: “My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “Money [...]

While most scientists focus their efforts on finding signs of life in our own universe some are starting to set their sights elsewhere. The majority …

Franca Cuneo poses on Capri. In real life, the 28-year-old is a restaurateur in Hamburg. Brigitte, a German fashion magazine, has announced that it will no longer employ professional models for its fashion shoots. But something about the photos looks different. A prominent tummy here and noticeable wrinkles there reveal that these are not size-zero Amazons straight [...]

After 20 years being married, Jan and Lee Jones decided to get divorced. A month later, they decided that they though married life was tough, they couldn’t live apart … so they got remarried! They decided to separate after nearly 20 years of marriage in January 2009. Mr Jones said: “We had a lot of problems, like [...]

As we continue to scour the skies for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life and as the number of extrasolar planets being discovered steadily…

An inventor who has spent his life building robots has created a sophisticated £30,000 female android with which he’s spent his Christmas. His cre…

The most likely extrasolar planet to support life yet found has been discovered 40 light years away. The planet is thought to be mostly composed o…

My girlfriend and I recently watched Julie and Julia (my pick, not hers) and, honestly, I could have done without the Julie half of the equation. I’m a cook and a blogger, so I didn’t really need an hour of Amy Adams acting out a variation of my life and all the chopping, typing and [...]