Flipside homepage Editor's blog
As editor of Flipside, the magazine that proves fact is stranger than fiction, I check out all kinds of new stuff – some of it great, some of it greatly disturbing… Here I share my inbox with the world, for better or worse!
You can make pictures by putting coloured rice on a plate. But for the past 16 years, the farmers of some of the villages in Japan have gone way past that by making images out of complete rice plants in their own fields.
Published: 08 February 2010
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What do you get when you mix a flock of zebra finches with amped-up electric guitars? A racket, that’s what.
Published: 06 February 2010
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Runners in New York have just finished their latest trial of endurance with a race to the top of the Empire State Building. That's gotta hurt.
Published: 04 February 2010
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The thing about rubber ducks is that they don’t break down easily, as Spike the terrier found out when he ate one and had to have it removed some 18 months later.
Published: 03 February 2010
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Throwing a coin into a fountain doesn’t seem to do much at all. But when that coin sinks it’s doing something amazing: creating a supersonic jet of air behind it.
Published: 02 February 2010
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Stuck in the only building on a moon that’s about to be destroyed by a gigantic moonquake, this robot’s only way out is to get to the top and into the rocket that’s waiting there.
Published: 29 January 2010
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For the past six years, the Spirit rover has been sedately rolling around on the surface of Mars but it met its match in an unusually soft patch of sand with the name of Troy. And NASA has decided to call it a day.
Published: 26 January 2010
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There are people monitoring what happens to the International Space Station hundreds of miles down on the ground but, until now the astronauts on the floating laboratory didn't have an internet connection. Now they do, and to prove it, they've gone on Twitter.
Published: 24 January 2010
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Most national parks are full of trees. The Koster Islands National Park in Sweden is a bit different: you need to get in a boat. And the scientists looking at the life there need a submarine.
Published: 20 January 2010
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It’s one thing to be driving around in a truck that “smells like a bus driver’s armpit”. It’s another to be arrested as a terrorist just for using a satellite phone while you’re in your smelly truck.
Published: 18 January 2010
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