News These mesmerising sea angels are not as angelic as you think by Mia Montesin Let me guess. (Sea) angels brought you here. The sea angel, or gymnosomata, is a shell-less mollusc about five centimetres in length. Our friends from Australian Geographic have introduced us…
News David Attenborough is giving free geography lessons to kids in lockdown by Mia Montesin Many parents haven’t opened a geography textbook in decades. So when COVID-19 forced schools to close, a lot of them weren’t prepared for home-schooling. Just in time, up gallops a…
News A huge meteor shower is coming to a sky near you tonight, here’s when to watch by Mia Montesin All is not lost after the supermoon failed to save Lois Lane a few weeks ago. With less light pollution, the night skies are clearing up for quite a spectacle…
News Deserted beaches are seeing the return of the world’s largest turtles by Mia Montesin With people, dogs, and idiots banned from beaches, the world’s largest sea turtles are returning to shores in numbers that haven’t been seen for decades. Empty stretches of sand are…
News Here’s the lowdown on the active asteroid ‘Oumuamua everyone’s talking about by Mia Montesin Vice thinks it looks like a blunt. And it does. With a radius of around 200 metres, one puff of that doobie and you’d be greener than the Grinch. This…
News Meet Thylacine, DC Comics’ first Indigenous Australian character by Mia Montesin Suicide Squad’s latest recruit is a deadly Ngarluma hunter from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. This lethal female character has stealthy combat skills and night vision. Thylacine (Corinna by…
News Disney Plus has censored Daryl Hannah’s butt in ‘Splash’ and it’s awful by Mia Montesin With an IMDB rating of 6.2/10, Ron Howard’s 1984 movie Splash has likely endured enough hardships as it is. What’s wrong with a little butt crack? Read on to enjoy an…
News Check out this interview between a 20-year-old Quentin Tarantino and John Milius by Mia Montesin If you’re a die-hard Tarantino fan, you’ve most likely come across a stack of wonderful and inglorious film reviews he’s been publishing on the website for his very own theatre,…
News Fires burning dangerously close to Chernobyl are under control, officials say by Mia Montesin For the last 11 days, fires have been burning close to the defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. One fire reached Pripyat, a ghost city that was built in…
News New study shows Americans are sneaking cheeky beers during work hours by Mia Montesin What’s new from our mates in the states? People are glugging beer during work, coronavirus is spreading almost as fast as the Harlem shake explosion of 2013, and a washed-up…
News Marijuana has officially been decriminalised in the state of Virginia by Mia Montesin Only a few weeks after Californians were observed hoarding cannabis in the face of the pandemic, the Attorney General of Virginia has passed laws that decriminalise marijuana in the state….
News During the pandemic, Icelandic forest rangers recommend hugging trees instead of humans by Mia Montesin Human hugs can result in a range of undesirable circumstances, most importantly, cooties. Coming in at a close second is the risk of contracting COVID-19, and thirdly, a meaningful emotional…
News For the first time in 30 years, the Himalayas are visible to people in India by Mia Montesin For the most part, Indians have been confined to their homes during the pandemic except to grab essential goods. For years, the densely populated continent of 1.3 billion has experienced…
