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!
Ever since Roberto Carlos scored with an incredible curving shot against France in 1997, people have wondered whether it was a fluke or an amazing shot. The verdict from science is now in.
Published: 02 September 2010
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You could hardly argue that one golfer’s game was on fire when he managed to hit his ball into the rough instead of onto the green. But things changed when he tried to get back into the game: he managed to set fire to the course.
Published: 01 September 2010
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The pro-riders’ bike GPS of choice has been reinvented with a nifty touchscreen
Published: 26 August 2010
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Thailand has unleashed a Biblical swarm of parasitic wasps that eat their victims from the inside out. But why?
Published: 20 August 2010
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Imagine the add for this bloke’s job – ‘must be good underground and have previous shovelling experience in lard factory’
Published: 19 August 2010
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The British-built Land Speed Record contender Bloodhound spills its guts as its makers release the complete tech specs.
Published: 13 August 2010
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Bones found with stone cut marks prove that human ancestors used tools to butcher meat one million years earlier than first thought
Published: 13 August 2010
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Some of the World's freakiest mummies are currently on show at the California Science Centre
Published: 11 August 2010
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The best chance in years to see the Northern Lights from England seems to have passed us by while people in the northern US, Denmark and Germany have managed to see and photograph the aurora borealis in action.
Published: 06 August 2010
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The all-girl troop of gorillas are to get a new male companion after their last one died in March. But it could be a risky move.
Published: 04 August 2010
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