Smelliest Cheese In Britain

If one were a unique cheese in Britain, the sobriquet, Smelliest Cheese would be a name proudly worth bearing. That title indeed exists, and goes to Stinking Bishop, an award winning artisanal cheese. This is a Gloucestershire cheese, with a nutty flavor, but is best known for its strong odor, that being comparable to a reeking, […]

Is It Trump’s Galician Sister

A hard hard working woman, farming in northwestern Spain, has just found surprising fame and attention. Dolores Leis Antelo was photographed by journalist, Paula Vázquez, who was covering a story about farming in the area, and posted one of her pictures of Dolores on Instagram. It did not take long for the social media platform […]

No Joke! Uranus Stinks

Patrick Irwin, of Oxford University in England, and his colleagues have studied the air around Uranus, and found, among other things, that it stinks. Its most unpleasant smell is caused by hydrogen sulfide, the molecule that gives rotten eggs their unmistakable odor. Using the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS), an instrument on the 26-foot Gemini […]

My Selfie Not Yours

In 2011, wildlife photographer, David Slater, walked away from his camera, leaving it unattended for a few moments. While he was gone, Naruto, a 7 year old crested macaque, who was living on a reserve in Indonesia, came across the camera, and took several selfies. Slater found the photos on his camera, and later published them. […]

Mysterious File Sent By Mistake

MuckRock, is a news organization specializing in filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with state and federal government bodies. In its many filings, strange and unexpected results have been received, but none quite so surprising as the bundle just received from the Washington State Fusion Center. When journalist Curtis Waltman wrote to WSFC, a […]