The video below from ESPN shows Robbie Maddison’s new Year’s eve jump UP and the DOWN a building, a replica of the Arc de Triomphe, in Las Vegas. The stunt was equivalent to jumping on to a 10-storey apartment building. Jumping off the building meant going into free fall on the motor cycle before hitting…
One thing that really bugs me about the climate change debate is the way that variations in the weather seem to be twisted to suit particular points of view. If the weather’s warmer than at this time last year, global warming is a fact, if it’s cooler, then it’s a fallacy.
One of the most successful public education campaigns that I have ever seen would have to be the “Life Be In It’ series from the Australian Federal government. Started in 1975 by the Victorian state government, the program was so successful that it was adopted by the Australian Federal Government in 1978, and then launched…
A truck carrying 12 tonnes of beer has lost its load at a busy intersection in the German city of Kassel. About 800 litres of beer flew off the truck and formed a frozen lake due to the -4 degrees celcius temperature at the time!! There’s no truth in the rumor that people have been…
