Today we’re very proud to be featuring a specially-commissed guest post from Kyle Kusch, proprietor of excellent geography blog The Basement Geographer. In his non-Internet life, Kyle works as a jack-of-all-trades geographer in rural British Columbia, Canada, where he tells…

On Monday, October 4th, this filthy-looking reservoir in Hungary burst its walls, releasing 700,000 cubic metres (24 million cubic feet) of toxic sludge onto the surrounding countryside and villages. A byproduct of refining bauxite into alumina at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar…

Those of you paying close attention to our broadcasting schedule will no doubt have noticed that we missed this year's annual Island Week, which began taking place in August 2006. Those of you paying even closer attention might have noticed…

Location: Pierce City, Missouri. Date: Unknown. A young man cycles along the same street as the Google Street View car. Can you guess what happens next? Oh YEEEEAAAAAHHH!! At the exact moment this image was taken, mid-falling-off, it looks like…

Regular readers may remember our post from 2009 about a Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, that has been emitting a short buzz tone on the AM frequency almost continuously since 1982. In the following 28 years the buzzing had only…

Last week newspaper websites across the world published a story about a young girl who appeared to be lying dead on the pavement of an English street, proving that the worldwide fascination with Google Street View continues unabated. Fortunately the…