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Nat Newman is a freelance writer and editor from Australia. She has lived and worked in the UK, China and New Zealand and now lives in Croatia where she is attempting to learn its impossible language while working on her first novel. She blogs about travel and writing at www.lividlili.com and can be found on Twitter @lividlili
Shots of Science: LHC, Spacetalk & More
Ups and downs at the LHC
Don't they look happy! It’s been an exciting few weeks over at CERN. After a scheduled 2 year downtime, the Large Hadron Collider was due to restart last week, but the momentous occasion was delayed by a short…
NCIS – A Sleeper Agent
Today I find myself in the curious position of writing about the American television show NCIS, the long-running crime-procedural, which you have, without even meaning to, completely by accident, watched at least once.
Writing about…
Shots of Science – eyelashes, peanuts, and penis size
Back away from the mascara
A new study has found out not only what eyelashes are for, but what their optimal length is. The research, published last month in The Royal Society’s Journal, Interface, found having eyelash length which is 1/3…
6 Way Better Things to Celebrate on 14 February
So you may have noticed there’s a little thing coming up on Saturday where people are going to go out for a fancy dinner, give one another roses, eat some chocolate and get laid. But just because you don’t have a main squeeze, just because…
How to sleep the cold away – Hibernation
Mammals do it, bees do it. Even one type of bird does it.
As the days get colder and shorter and the rain drizzles down, soon to turn to ice and snow; as you think about wet socks and permanently cold feet, trudging through…
Give A Shit on World Toilet Day
Do you scrunch or fold? Should the roll be under or over? Do you take a book or read the newspaper?
I haven't said it yet, but you already know exactly what I'm talking about.
The loo. Toilet. Dunny. Crapper. Lav. Powder room.…
Electric Picnic 2014 | 17 | Chic
Freak Out and Dance, Dance, Dance
Forget everything you think you know about disco. Sure, we all like to have a little embarrassing dance when 'Stayin Alive', 'Dancing Queen' and 'Kung Fu Fighting' come on. But disco was first and…
Electric Picnic 2014 | 13 | Lily Allen
Love or hate her (or love her in secret and hate her in public), when Lily Allen hits the Electric Picnic stage at the end of August she will undoubtedly put on a good show.
After a 4 year hiatus, Allen released her new album…
Breaking Bad Reading Habits
You're here on Headstuff having a poke around, so I'm going to assume that you love to read and learn about new things. May I ask you something personal? Why do you read? And what criteria do you use to select the books you read?
All…