Birmingham Animal Centre Needs You!

On Sunday 30th of September Birmingham Animal Centre will be closing its doors for the last time.  The centre will be relocating to Newbrook Farm, which it is hoped will be a flagship for animal centres in the region.  In the meanwhile the current residents of the centre are looking for a new home, especially the felines.  If you live in the Birmingham area, and think you can offer a home to a new furry family member then visit the website for more information.

 

Scientists Study Antique Spud!

Well, they say that everything has value to at least one person, but we didn’t think that this would apply to a 170 year old potato.  This is clearly our mistake, as scientists in Hertfordshire have been studying DNA from samples of blighted potatoes from the Irish Potato Famine of 1840, which had been stored by scientists of the time.  The hope is that the study will allow scientist to further understand what caused the blight.  We hope they don’t intend to make them into crisps, as they’d be well past their sell by date.

Read more here.

 

Roll Down a Window….

After the most recent debacle, where he was secretly filmed claiming that 47% of the American people don’t pay income tax, and are “victims” “dependent upon government” (1), Mitt Romney, the man who should end every sentence with “lol jk” just to be safe has come out with another cracker.  After his wife’s plane was grounded last week due to smoke in the cabin, the Republican Presidential Candidate told the media that he didn’t understand why you couldn’t roll the windows down on a plane.  No, really, here is exactly what he said: “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem.” (2)

Well, we have embedded a video that we found on YouTube below, to explain exactly why opening windows on a plane is not the best idea.  We don’t know if Mitt reads Newsnibbles, but really, everyone should.

 

 


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