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Hollywood lied to us: The Birds
If you have a fear of getting swooped by magpies, mobbed by seagulls or blinded by crows, perhaps Alfred Hitchcock is to blame.
His 1963 horror classi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Hollywood lied to us: Antz
Remember that 1998 film Antz? The one about an ant named Z?
The one where the ants had nightmare-inducing human teeth? The one we probably have to bla…
1 year, 1 month ago
Hollywood lied to us: Cocaine Bear
In 1985, a real American black bear consumed a bunch of cocaine that'd been dropped from a plane into the forest, and died.
Nearly 40 years later Holl…
1 year, 1 month ago
Hollywood lied to us: Jurassic Park
Quick! Think of a ‘dinosaur movie’. Chances are Jurassic Park (1993) was first to mind.
Steven Spielberg’s genetic nightmare/theme park gone wrong …
1 year, 2 months ago
Summer: Sex is Weird: Ep 1- The world’s first d*ck pic
When you really think about it, sex to make babies is WEIRD! You take an outie that has to get stuck inside an innie that links into a production lin…
1 year, 2 months ago
Summer: Minimalist animals
Could a legless lizard be 'minimalist of the year' for famous podcaster T. K. Coleman?
Ann Jones leads an unlikely gang of animal experts on a tidy da…
1 year, 2 months ago
Summer: Mother Nature does it better (ASMR edition)
ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) is a tingly sensation that can bring relaxation, and it's spawned a growing industry of videos online of …
1 year, 2 months ago
Summer: Why do Quolls have spots?
Imagine you've just been cancelled for a controversial opinion about Taylor Swift's musical output, and you have to go to ground.
You can act like the…
1 year, 2 months ago
Summer: Butts- what are they good for?
Right now, you’re probably sitting on one of the most unique things about humans. One thing that separates us from the apes, from the birds, from EVE…
1 year, 3 months ago
Summer: How many animals REALLY live in your house?
How many species live around your house?
In the COVID lockdown of 2020, three housemates decided to count.
They thought there’d only be a handful, but …
1 year, 3 months ago