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!
It's been a prime suspect for causing the death of the dinosaurs for years but a panel of scientists reckon an asteroid that smacked into Mexico 65 million years is the culprit.
Published: 07 March 2010
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The Photoshop eraser has gone nowhere near this picture: find out how the Magic Tap fountain in Spain's Aqualand gets its water after the click.
Published: 03 March 2010
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Sixty seven million years ago, a snake found a nest of abandoned dinosaur eggs and thought it had hit the jackpot. Instead it got hit by a landslide so that now scientists can find out a lot more about how some of the biggest ever dinosaurs got snuffed out almost at birth.
Published: 02 March 2010
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A Flickr project has put together more than 500 images that show photographs of old scenes superimposed on the modern scene. It's surprising how little some things have changed.
Published: 01 March 2010
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They have long winters in Wisconsin. So there's plenty of time to build a house made entirely of ice, which is what 20 people did this year. Say hello to the Bigloo.
Published: 25 February 2010
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Computers are all around us. There’s no escaping them. And when they go wrong, don’t they let you know about it.
Published: 24 February 2010
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When anybody asks Joseph Herscher “how do you eat yours?”, the answer could take a while. That’s because his Creme Eggs go on a bit of a journey.
Published: 23 February 2010
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After bombarding the Ministry of Defence with requests for the files the civil servants kept on UFO sightings, some of the records were published but with parts blanked out. It turns out the civil servants didn't take the reports too seriously.
Published: 21 February 2010
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Surfing the web is keeping teens up at night and cutting down on the amount of sleep they get, researchers reckon. And people are just getting irritable because of it.
Published: 18 February 2010
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Flipside's Escape game has gone viral. After it launched, our game surged into the worldwide viral charts, getting to the top in China and Asia.
Published: 16 February 2010
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