Winters Icy Drunken Claw - A Very Northern Threat

The nights are drawing down and winter's icy claw slowly stretches over the northern hemisphere. You can tell winter is coming from Scandinavia because animal binge drinking is on the increase as the Swann and the BBC report.

Tweet by Graham Swann Thursday, 8th September 2011

The Science of South Park Part 1

South Park: Make Love, Not Warcraft

Apparently socialising stops you becoming a porker. So much so that one professor at Ohio State University was "amazed at the degree of fat loss that occurs."

Animal Activists Need More Balls

German Animal Activists desperately try save escapee Cow from "trigger-happy Bavarians. 

Start the video at 5:05

Yvonne, who is possibly the most famous cow in the world at the moment,  has been on the lamb(!) since late May, smashing the three week record held by "Bruno, the first [and possibly last] bear to be seen on German soil [in] 170 years". A spokeswoman for Germany's Wildlife Alliance said at the time: