Europe’s largest handmade bike fair, Bespoked, is back in the UK in 2024. In previous years, London’s Lee Valley Velodrome has played host, but this year the fair heads north to Manchester, to a rather palatial Victoria Baths. I took a (dry) lap around the 6ft deep pools of this former spa (or is it … Read more
Image: Nintendo It’s crazy to think that DK is called anything other than Donkey Kong, but there was a time when Nintendo considered other possibilities, including some wild swings. In the 80s, Nintendo and Universal were on opposite sides of a lawsuit, with Nintendo accused of basing DK on the iconic movie star King Kong. … Read more
The planet’s last surviving mammoth population was killed off by a random and sudden mysterious event, a new study has found. The population, which was isolated from the rest of the world for 6,000 years on Wrangel Island in present-day far northern Russia, was previously believed slowly exterminated by genetic inbreeding. But a new study … Read more