Banana trees walk

Look it up, it's phototrophy.

Banana plant is a herb (no woody stem), and the fruit is a berry!

QI - interesting talking points!

Static electricity is an Australian thing

Very concerned post-grad student comes to the office counter to tell us that there is a problem with the electricity. It has escaped.

Hands on deck, ask a few questions - I quickly realised he was talking about the static electricity caused by the windy, dry weather we’d been having for days.

This student was quite concerned about the escaping electricity until he was shown that dragging your feet and touching your finger to anything metallic would cause the static discharge.

We told him that the static electricity was normal particularly in “this weather” and that kids at school usually charge themselves up and zap their friends on the ear lobe.

The student assured us that there is no static electricity in Pakistan.

This'll boost gay tourism!

It's pink!

Charter boat captain Erik Rue, 42, photographed the animal, which is actually an albino, when he began studying it after the mammal first surfaced in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary, north of the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern USA.

(Thanks Pogs!)

OH&S Nightmare!

Paternoster



The lift in my building was on the fritz yesterday and my workmate told me today about a lift in a place where she used to work in the UK. It scared the hell out of her.

More at Wiki.

Accidents waiting to happen.

I think they're still in use in the UK and Europe.