So the news recently came out that various UK supermarkets, including Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Iceland, and the ever-popular Dunnes Store, were all selling ‘beef’ burgers that turned out to be less beefy and more horsey.   For example, it turned out that horse meat accounted...

  A pretty exciting event happened last weekend. A man, an epic mega man, jumped from a truly sickening height from an equally nauseating, glorified party accessory (to put it in a nutshell). Yes, that’s right. I am back for my second article, yet again on the theme of space and...

  The moon landing was one of the most important moments in human history, and as ever, it was not without its own conspiracies. I mean, who could forget that famous quote from Richard Nixon: ” I did stage the moon landing… on Venus!”     But one cannot...

  Raise up your oscilloscopes and calibrate your spectrometers in celebration, because today is a great day for physics, and Brian Cox’s twitter account!     That’s right, we’ve done it! The pesky particle that inspired the construction of a collosal...

  By now, we’ve seen all the wannabe-superhero films out there, like Kick-Ass, Super, and Defendor (by which of course I mean you’ve only seen Kick-Ass) and don’t they look awesome? Going around, fighting crime, without a care in the world! Unfortunately, when you don’t have...

  In the biggest revelation to rock the fruit world since they discovered that bananas are fluorescent (yes, really), it turns out that a new fruit has recently been discovered! And it’s due to go on sale in Marks And Spencer next week! Grown in New Zealand, this fruit has the...

  Whilst I haven’t conducted any particularly rigourous experiments, I think it’s safe to say that coulrophobia (a fear of clowns) is definitely up there on the list of ailments that plague our children/ourselves. I mean, there’s a reason that The Joker wasn’t...

  It’s something that was bound to do the rounds eventually. We all know the fairytale. Very very white socialite meets gangster rapper, they’re seen together shopping, and then the speculation begins. That’s right. In TrendFlux’s big breaking news story this week, we...

  It’s not often that a whole bunch of awesome news occurs in one week. But luckily for you, when it does, we will endeavour to bring it you in nice, bite-size chunks. This is… The Week In Weird   He Never Saw That Coming We’ve all done it before, come up with some...

  Internet guru Mark Zuckerberg has today announced an all new layout for his brain-child, the Facebook. Unperturbed by the extraordinary outpouring of apathy and mild discontent following his most recent innovation – the wildly unpopular Facebook TimeLine – Zuckerberg and his team...

  I think, as a general rule of thumb, people don’t like dying. I can’t be certain though, because I’ve never spoken to someone who’s actually done it. My point is, most healthy people expect to survive the horrific maelstrom that is ‘daily...

  Don’t get me wrong, I love McDonald’s. I really do. I even once wrote them this letter (part 2), telling them just how I feel. I’ll wait here whilst you read it.   …   Now that you’ve got a rough idea of my stance on this restaurant, prepare to...

  Ding Dong. Kim Jong Il is dead.   I have to be honest, when I heard about news early this morning, I wasn’t particularly surprised. Partly because I’d kind of forgotten who he was. I saw the facebook status, the twitter updates… Next stop google (yep, okay, I remember...

  I‘s not often that a whole bunch of awesome news occurs in one week. But luckily for you, when it does, we will endeavour to bring it you in nice, bite-size chunks. This is… The Week In Weird   “He Seems To Be In A Rush(-a)!” We all know that most crazy...

  For those of you who don’t know, the world’s population hit 7 billion on Monday 31st October, 2011. Apparently, this was a momentous occasion, but I don’t really see the difference between this milestone and, you know, any other number. A lot of scientists and...

  Remember when you had to search for ages to find a photo of a corpse? You’d be up all night, trawling through page after page of the internet, desperately hoping to catch a glimpse of cadaver. It was a hard life…     Now all you need to do is open a newspaper. In...

  Being a hitman is a tough job. So tough, that I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up on this list. Unfortunately, people disregard it as a difficult profession, because of all the casual death, and killing. Did I mention the death? I suppose they do have a fair point though. I...

  On the 19th September 2011, members of the roasting community paid tribute to Charlie Sheen… by digging up every bit of past shame he’s experienced. It was like a bully stepping on a snail… if the snail was the highest paid actor on TV at one point and an excessive...

  Good news, nobody! Tomorrow is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, or ITLAPD or short. It all began in 1955 when John Baur and Mark Summers (AKA Ol’ Chumbucket and Cap’n Slappy. No, really) decided that regular days just weren’t piratey enough. And what would be the...

  In 1950, Alan Turing posed the question ‘Can machines think?’ And in 2011, I posed the answer ‘Um, probably not.’ You see, Alan wondered whether a computer program could be built that would behave so human-like, that it would be indistinguishable from human...

  It’s not often that a whole bunch of awesome news occurs in one week. But luckily for you, when it does, we will endeavour to bring it you in nice, bite-size chunks. This is… The Week In Weird   Get a Moo-ve On! Cows aren’t really renowned for their athletic...

  It’s Friday. Friday. Got to get down on Friday. Apparently. Quite frankly, I don’t often take advice from song lyrics as it tends to land me in a spot of bother (Think ‘Smack My Bitch Up’). Anyway, please click on the image below to read about some interesting...

  It was the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last week and, much to my dismay, it was not just about dodgy haircuts. No, apparently they do comedy and stuff and being a comedy website (supposedly), we feel it’s only fair to share with you what were deemed to be the funniest jokes out...

  Australians. I think it only fair that we treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve as a nation. They’re a country with a rich, proud history, whose people have included Nobel Laureates such as Howard Florey, for his work on penicillin, top sportsmen such as Ian Thorpe,...