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Nuclear Reactors and Bin Bags: The Dangers of Space Junk

Rubbish, junk, and garbage are not words typically associated with space. Space is imagined as a vast, and impeccably clean sphere; but we are making a big mess of it,…

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March 28, 2022 Mostly Odd

Nail House and Nunchuks

In 2004 a group of developers had found the perfect site for a shopping complex in the Chinese municipality of…

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March 28, 2022 Mostly Odd

Morgellons: The Non-Existent Epidemic

It spreads like wildfire beneath the skin, the slight prickling sensation of itching. Tiny and innumerable fibres seem to poke…

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March 28, 2022 Mostly Odd

Jumping From Space: The World’s Greatest Fall

The fastest speed ever reached by an unaided human is just under the speed of sound, achieved under the name…

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March 28, 2022 Mostly Odd

Hello World, Welcome to Mostly Odd

Hello World, Welcome to Mostly Odd This is my personal site where I write about whatever I like. Either a…

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March 28, 2022 Mostly Odd

Fact Fragments – Sharks, Cards, Mountains and Spanish

The highest mountain we know of has yet to be visited, it’s on Mars. We call it Olympus Mons. At…

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March 28, 2022 Mostly Odd

By the Skin of his Body: The Death of Big Nose George

August 1878, United States of America; a Union Pacific train was screaming through large, and largely empty, rural Wyoming. The…

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March 28, 2022 Mostly Odd

The Bikini and the Beast

Nuclear means much more than atomic power. Since World War II it has inspired thoughts of Utopia and destruction, but…

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March 28, 2022 Mostly Odd

John Frum and the Cargo Cult

No planes or soldiers were remotely near the islands of Vanuatu, yet airstrips were appearing like scars through the pristine…

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March 28, 2022 Mostly Odd

Music, Mathematics and the First Vegetarians: Rise of the Pythagoreans

Pythagoras, mathematician and philosopher, returned from Egypt and Babylon a changed man. At the Greek colony of Croton, he set…

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Nuclear Reactors and Bin Bags: The Dangers of Space Junk

Nail House and Nunchuks

Morgellons: The Non-Existent Epidemic

Jumping From Space: The World’s Greatest Fall

Hello World, Welcome to Mostly Odd

Fact Fragments – Sharks, Cards, Mountains and Spanish

By the Skin of his Body: The Death of Big Nose George

The Bikini and the Beast

John Frum and the Cargo Cult

Music, Mathematics and the First Vegetarians: Rise of the Pythagoreans

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