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Old Man Jenkins is one of Spongebob Squarepants' most elusive and enigmatic characters. The old fish pops up in Spongebob episodes every now and again, but he never quite looks the same. We've seen him looking fat, thin, green, blue, bearded and bespectacled. He's just so... mysterious. ALL of these…
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Our Earth is a scarred and beaten rock, a wounded place embedded with monuments to civilisations past that we can hardly fathom. Imagine if Egyptian civilization had been wiped off the map, and the Pyramids of Giza were left standing, with no records or context as to how they were…
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It's common to see heartwarming stories about children sending letters to NASA go viral. However, what about heartbreaking responses from NASA? It's one thing for young boys today to aspire to work for the space tech industry, but for a young girl 55 years ago, the situation was not so…
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Regardless of where you stand on the iOS vs. Android debate, we're all at least a little intrigued whenever Apple brings out a new iPhone. Apple really set the bar for smartphones when in 2007, the late Steve Jobs and his veritable dream team unveiled the iPhone. The now-fabled smartphone…
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It seems that a singularity of some sort is rapidly approaching. Apple seeks to make face-scanning technology a standard element of every iPhone, artificial intelligence can tell whether you're gay or straight from a single photo of your face, and now it can also tell whether you're a conservative or…
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If you're reading this article, it's fair to say you're pretty-well versed with the English language. In the same vein, you'll also be quite aware of how much you take that gift for granted. Take a trip to nations around the world and you'll soon find that not only do…
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Whenever someone I know gets a new tattoo, my response is invariably the same; I tell them I think it looks brilliant. Regardless of my true feelings, I simply cannot bear to be the one to inform someone that they have just made a decidedly permanent mistake, and so smile…
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In my world, a crying baby is never a good thing. In fact, there are few sets of circumstances that are worse than a wriggling, bawling miniature person who I could bathe, feed and burp but still remains intent on shrieking till daybreak. What can I say? I’m an eight-hours-sleep-a-night…
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According to Donald Trump, jet fuel really can't melt steel beams. It's the perfect thing for a walking meme of a President to believe, as all coalesces in the warm madcap night of Pepe the frog, 9/11 memes and the game show host President. You've probably heard a lot about…
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When sitting down for a nice bit of fish, you'd like to think that you know what you're getting, right? I mean, what else is there to it? It's just a fish. But sadly, due to how wasteful we are as a species, and down to our determination to destroy…
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Every year, for the months of June, July and August, there are people out there eschewing delicious ice cream and barbecue food in an attempt to craft the perfect "Summer Bod". Of course, when on holiday and subjected to the gazes of attractive men and women by the pool, some…
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Superhero movies are all the rage nowadays, with five of them hitting cinemas already this year, and a couple more on the way. So it's hard now to imagine a time when this wasn't the case, when studios weren't that confident in putting comic book characters on the big screen.…
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Arthur, what a show. I used to absolutely love Arthur. I remember being a kid in school, running home, jumping on the sofa with some peanut butter and toast and putting on Arthur. The soundtrack (which I will come to in minute) was just as legendary as the show itself,…
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Next month marks a special anniversary: the reality television show Keeping Up With The Kardashians will have been on our screens for a decade. Yes, that means that we have spent 10 percent of our lives analysing America's most famous family. Certainly, whether they're surgically enhancing their lips or posteriors,…
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So finally, after months of speculation and leaks, the new iPhone has finally arrived and everyone is losing their minds for a variety of reasons. The iPhone 8 and the iPhone8+ are the latest bits of kit to be created by the tech giant and there is also the iPhone…
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In both the books and the TV show, Game of Thrones has dealt with the idea of rebirth and heroes destined to restore balance to the world. George R. R. Martin delves deeper into the history and mythology of 'Azor Ahai', the heroic figure who forged the sword 'Lightbringer' to…
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"Rules are made to be broken" isn't exactly true all the time, seeing how many rules are put in place to ensure order and safety in our lives, but there are definitely some rules we all would love to ignore and disregard. Some have more confidence with this than others,…
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If this doesn't drill into your head that animals, particularly animals like Orcas, don't belong in captivity, then I don't know what will. Miami Seaquarium had landed itself in some seriously hot water online after it abandoned its animals during Hurricane Irma, with the majority of the focus surrounding a…
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Modern culture dictates that we consume celebrity gossip with a voracious appetite. In our society, we have the illusion of feeling closer than ever before to our favourite famous faces, due to the advent and inexorable rise of social media. Of course, the filtered, carefully edited fiction that such choreographed…
