The Joyride: Recent Episodes
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’n Keiserpikkewyn het vermoedelik die langste ooit aangetekende reis vir die spesie gemaak nadat hy ongeveer 2 134 myl geswem het om Ocean Beach in die westelike Australiese dorp Denemarke te bereik.
After their great performance at this year's IAM World Championship of Majorette-Sport 2024, team SA was kind enough to stop by the studio to have a chat with us. They share their experience and stories about this year's championship.
'n Aantal Swifts is agter die kassa's by Aldi's Ancoats-supermark opgemerk toe die pop-megaster Sondag vier toekennings by die MTV EMA's by Manchester se Co-op Live Arena ingepalm het.
Wetenskaplikes in verskillende wêrelddele het op een of ander manier 'n manier gevind om fliek-"rekwisiete" lewendig te maak. Van "spioenasie"-ringe tot Harry Potter-mantels, hierdie kan dalk hul pad na 'n winkel naby jou maak.
TikTokers het met 'n taamlik bisarre maar effens geloofwaardige samesweringsteorie vorendag gekom wat sosiale media 'n gons het. Volgens hulle hou aanlynwinkels hul kliënte se aankope dop.
Bekroonde musikant, liedjieskrywer en OFM Ontbyt-nuusleser Nadine Blom kuier by The Joyride vir 'n vinnige geselsie! Sy vertel ons van haar reis in musiek, uitsaaiwese en van haar nuutste enkelsnit "Kom Saam". As jy dit nog nie gehoor het nie, luister na die liedjie in die skakel hieronder. Nadine Blom - Kom Saam
Make this your ringtone to better your chances of encouraging your boss to establish the 4 day work week in your office.
Ysland se korter werksweek was 'n sukses, volgens 'n nuwe studie - mense is gelukkiger en die ekonomie is sterk.
Nico gesels met die skrywer, uitgewer en uitvoerende hoof van 'n uitgewersmaatskappy, Joe Maynard van Crystal Lake Publishing. Joe vertel ons van sommige van die boeke in hul katalogus en gee ons insig oor wat om in die nabye toekoms van die uitgewery te verwag.
Navorsers het gevind dat Sjinees-vervaardigde kombuistoestelle sensitiewe persoonlike inligting na Beijing kan stuur en dat slimfoontoepassings wat aan die toestelle gekoppel is, toestemming gevra het om klank op te neem sonder enige duidelike rede.
Rebecca Laurel (25) het reeds ander uitgebreide prente geskep - insluitend 'n pampoen, spook en heks - deur 'n GPS-toestel te gebruik om haar pad op 'n digitale kaart te teken.
Die Amerikaanse beginner Heliospect Genomics vra welgestelde ouers tot $50 000 om hul embrio's vir IK en ander wenslike eienskappe te ondersoek.
J. Corbell, a documentarian and journalist who covers all things aliens, says that the powers that be are already trying to silence people scheduled to speak at the hearing.
Beplan om binnekort in Kansas City, Missouri, te open, sê die Museum of BBQ dat dit die wêreld se eerste museum sal wees wat toegewy is aan die onderrig van besoekers oor die geskiedenis en kultuur van die kookstyl.
Using the power of AI, the team decided to write South Africa's most capped Springbok player a song in a very weird way of celebrating his birthday.
Ontroue individue wend hulle tot die kosgang in 'n poging om buite-egtelike pret te vind, aangesien twee soetrissies in die trollie vir ander voorstel dat hulle oop is om te dwaal.
Wetenskaplikes in die VSA het 'n eerste van sy soort 'drievoudige swart gat' ontdek wat boffins nogal verbaas gelaat het, aangesien hulle geen idee gehad het dat dit eens kan bestaan nie.
In ’n toneel wat voel asof dit reguit uit Alfred Hitchcock se The Birds opgelig kan word, word die lug oor Worcester al hoe vyandiger namate swerms meeue op die stad toesak, wat inwoners teister en die daaglikse lewe ontwrig.
James Blunt het hom tot die publiek gewend met 'n interessante versoek in die aanloop tot die heruitreiking van sy 2004-album, "Back to Bedlam".
Die burgemeester van Plettenberg het die stekelrige plante uit munisipale geboue verbied nadat 'n man mediese hulp nodig gehad het toe hy homself op 'n kaktus in 'n skool beseer het.
In die stad Nanchang, in 'n stegie naby 'n kankerhospitaal, bedryf twee senior burgers 'n "gemeenskapskankerkombuis" om diegene te ondersteun wat na hul geliefdes omsien.
Die sosiale media-plasing, wat gesê het "stel net my twttr op", is die eerste keer in Maart 2006 gepubliseer en is aan die Maleisiese sakeman Sina Estavi verkoop.
’n Poolse man is onlangs tot 22 maande agter tralies gevonnis omdat hy by twee huise ingebreek en verskeie take verrig het, soos om wasgoed op te hang en die vloer skoon te maak.
’n Brasiliaanse vrou wat haar lewe daaraan gewy het om haar pa se moordenaar vas te trek, het daarin geslaag om uiteindelik vrede in haar gesin te bring deur die wegholmisdadiger 25 jaar ná die moord voor die gereg te betrap.
'n Vrou wat aanvanklik aangekla is van die besit van metamfetamien is weke later vrygelaat toe laboratoriumanalise bewys het dat sy niks verkeerds gedoen het nie.
Choi Soon-hwa, ’n 80-jarige vrou van Suid-Korea, het onlangs die wêreld geskok deur as ’n finalis in die jaarlikse Mej Heelal Korea-kompetisie te kwalifiseer.
Wetenskaplikes het 'n 26-jarige man se brein 40 keer in die loop van 30 dae geskandeer en gevind dat dit teen die aand gekrimp het voordat dit oornag herstel het.
’n 58-jarige vrou van Ontario staan tereg op ’n aanklag van aanranding met ’n wapen nadat sy na bewering ’n buurman per ongeluk met ’n watergeweer in die bors gespuit het terwyl sy met ’n kind gespeel het.
’n Onderwyser het ’n vraag wat onmoontlik is om te beantwoord by ’n toetsvraestel gevoeg en 14 van haar studente betrap wat verneuk het.
'n Spaanse man het 'n vindingryke manier om geld te maak vorendag gekom - troues ineenstort en voorgee dat hy die bruid of die bruidegom se minnaar is en hulle vra om saam weg te hardloop.
Wetenskaplikes het die water meer as 1,5 myl onder die aarde se oppervlak ontdek, wat vir millennia geïsoleer van die buitewêreld gelaat is.
Afgesien van die feit dat hierdie twee karakters deur dieselfde aktrise vertolk word, het verskeie teorieë oor die karakters na vore gekom, die groot een is, wat as hierdie 2 karakters eintlik een persoon is?
“’n TikTokker was stomgeslaan om ’n pakkie van Temu oop te maak net om te ontdek dat die croissantlamp wat sy bestel het, ’n werklike croissant was.”
Venezuela se outoritêre president Nicolas Maduro het verklaar dat Kersfees drie maande vroeg in die land sal begin, in 'n stap wat volgens sommige gemaak is om sy eie politieke doelwitte te bevorder.
“Duitsland se vloot sê daar was geen dieper boodskap toe sy oorlogskip op die Teemsrivier gevaar het nie.”
“’n Mexikaanse gesin is as swendelaars uitgeskop nadat hulle op video vasgevang is waar hulle kakkerlakke op hul borde by ’n restaurant plaas net sodat hulle kan kla en weggaan sonder om die rekening te betaal.”
'n Neurochirurg in Oostenryk is afgedank en staar 'n kriminele ondersoek in die gesig nadat sy haar 13-jarige dogter na bewering toegelaat het om 'n gat in 'n pasiënt se skedel te boor.
Kenners het gevind dat sonneblomme wat naby mekaar groei en 'n skadu oor hul bure gooi, 'n manier gevind het om die probleem deur beweging op te los.
Nog ’n Donderdag, nog ’n resep van Sjef Maradine. Hierdie week sorteer sy ons nagereglus uit met ’n vinnige resep vir Caramel Blondies.
“Ek sal hierdie ervaring gebruik as ’n geleentheid om fondse vir die Nasionale Sterilisasieprojek in te samel.”
“Hulle woon uitsluitlik ondergronds en het bleek gelaatstrekke – dit lyk baie spookagtig.”
Die 2-potstelsel is ingestel deur die Wysigingswetsontwerp op Inkomstewette. Deur hierdie stelsel sal burgers toegang hê tot 'n gedeelte van hul aftreefondse. Nico praat met Arné Botha hieroor.
“Op die ou end het die ma tou opgegooi en vir hom ’n iPhone met haar swaarverdiende geld gekoop.”
Die Reflect Orbital-opstart is daarop ingestel om dit moontlik te maak om sonnig te wees 24/7.
Die Beijing Universiteit van Chemiese Tegnologie (BUCT) het sy toelatingsbriewe op 'n innoverende koolstofvesel saamgestelde materiaal gedruk wat net 0,2 millimeter dik is, maar so skerp en sterk soos 'n mes.
Lente is om die draai en Sjef Maradine maak ons gereed met 'n paar vinnige resepte om ons in die bui te kry vir die sonskyndae.
'n Rekenaarprogram kan siektes diagnoseer deur die kleur van iemand se tong te ontleed.
“Die YouTuber Pigmie, het ’n hele week deurgebring sonder om te sit, net om te sien watter uitwerking dit op sy liggaam sou hê.”
'n Russiese skaakspeler staar 'n lewenslange uitsluiting van amptelike kompetisies in die gesig nadat hy na bewering probeer het om 'n teenstander te vergiftig deur kwikverbindings op haar skaakbord te versprei.
Die 40-jarige Yoshitaka is al meer as elf jaar gelukkig getroud met die 65-jarige Aki, al het hy eers die dag voor hul troue van die ouderdomsgaping tussen hulle geleer.
Die Italiaanse mode-etiket Dolce & Gabbana neem die hondeparfuumwêreld storm met Fefé, 'n "olfaktoriese meesterstuk" geskep deur 'n meesterparfuummaker wat jou hond na 'n miljoen dollar sal laat ruik.
Sjef Maradine is terug met nog 'n wonderlike en maklik om te maak resep. Hierdie week maak ons Whiskey geroosterde hoender.
’n Man het sowat 30 jaar gelede vermis geraak, net om weer uit die niet te verskyn met geen herinnering van iets wat met hom gebeur het nie.
Weird question yes, but the internet seems to think that these two artist are the same person! From theories about their voices and how they both lost weight around the same time, some internet users are convinced that the two British artists are actually one single artist.
’n Chinese maatskappy het onder skoot gekom omdat hulle ’n posadvertensie geplaas het en potensiële kandidate wat in die jaar van die hond gebore is, gevra het om nie die moeite te doen om aansoek te doen nie omdat hulle outomaties afgekeur sou word.
Wetenskaplikes beveel aan dat mense in die alge bad en dit op hul maaltye sprinkel, aangesien dit baie gesondheidsverhogings kan meebring.
’n Parasiet wat in katpoep gevind word, kan beide Alzheimers en Parkinson se siektes behandel.
Baie Taylor Swift-aanhangers wat haar konsert bygewoon het, het berig dat hulle glad nie die konsert die volgende dag onthou nie.
'n Groep Peruaanse vroue bekend as die "Phoenix Squad" het bekend geword omdat hulle spesialiseer in die vang van ontroue mense regdeur Lima en die hele Suid-Amerikaanse land.
Suid-Afrikaanse Dowe Rugby is opgewonde om aan te kondig dat hulle hierdie Augustus internasionale sewes- en tiene-toernooie aanbied.
Bing, the Microsoft search engine’s Ai, recently had a secret to share with one of their engineers and it freaked everyone out.
Boffins aan die Cornell Universiteit het 'n prototipe-uitrusting geskep wat soortgelyk is aan 'Dune's Stillsuit' wat 'n toestel bevat wat 87 persent van die afval binne vyf minute na ontsmette drinkwater herwin.
’n Hoërskool Tokio moes hulp ontbied nadat 14 leerders aan naarheid sowel as maag- en mondpyn gely het nadat ’n seun die “R18-kerrieskyfies” met 33 lede van sy klas gedeel het.
Pan Xiaoting, 'n 24-jarige Chinese streamer wat spesialiseer in mukbang (eet groot hoeveelhede kos vir kykers se genot) is onlangs tydens haar regstreekse stroom dood weens die inname van te veel kos.
Die Silver Paws Senior Sanctuary is die tuiste van 'n pak goue oues wat die beste van die res van hul lewens uitleef!
Nog 'n week, nog 'n maklike resep van Sjef Maradine. Hierdie week maak ons deurmekaar flapjacks
Japannese politici het 'n wet geïmplementeer wat burgers sê om een keer per dag te lag om hul risiko om 'n hartaanval te kry, te verminder.
Met die sluipmoordpoging op Donald Trump die vorige naweek, het ons 'n geselsie gehad met Agent X, 'n professionele persoon in die BBP-beskermingsbedryf. Agent X gee ons 'n bietjie binne-inligting oor hoe BBP-beskerming werk en hoe die skut so naby gekom het.
’n Paartjie is verstom gelaat nadat hulle by ’n alles-insluitende vyfster-oord opgedaag het om te ontdek dat hulle die enigstes daar was, maar dit was nie heeltemal so ongelooflik soos dit eers gelyk het nie.
’n Vrou van Iowa is onlangs gearresteer omdat sy die man met wie sy veronderstel was om op ’n afspraak te gaan valslik by die polisie aangemeld het net omdat sy “koue voete gekry het” en nie geweet het hoe om hom te vertel nie.
Stel jou voor dat jy terugkeer huis toe van jou wittebrood en vind jou huis word deur duisende bierkratte versper.
From UFO to "alien" sightings, our world is full of "supernatural" stories that can't be explained. This disappearing airplane can now be added on the "unexplainable" list.
'n Video van 'n man wat gearresteer word omdat hy 'onwettig' kos geëet het terwyl hy op 'n treinperron gestaan het, het virale op sosiale media gegaan.
Durandal, 'n mitiese swaard wat vir die laaste 1 300 jaar in 'n rotsmuur in die Franse dorpie Rocamadour vasgesteek was, het skielik verdwyn, vermoedelik gesteel.
’n Studie het aan die lig gebring hoe die druiwefamilie gefloreer het in die jare ná die uitsterwing van die reptiele en het aangedui dat wyn sy wortels in die aardskuddende meteoriet het.
Om ons hierdie winter warm te hou met nog 'n resep is Sjef Maradine! Hierdie week gee sy vir ons 'n oop vuur kaasbord.
Hierdie Italiaanse kaas sal waarskynlik die walglikste ding wees wat jy nog ooit geëet het, maar sommige mense hou blykbaar daarvan.
Sophia Stewart claims her 1981 unpublished comic book The Third Eye, which was inspired by her own faith, formed the basis of not one but two of the most popular sci-fi franchises of the 20th century: The Matrix and Terminator.
Die Dzerzhinskoye Orgsteklo-fabriek is vir ses jaar gesluit en blou honde is amper sedertdien gesien wat in die gebied rondloop.
Een manier om te help vertel hoe 'n Tyrannosaurus rex kos verteer, is om na sy kak te kyk, wat een van die redes is waarom hierdie man 'n "poozeum" oopgemaak het.
Radioaktiewe materiaal is in renosterhorings ingespuit in 'n poging om stropery te verminder.
Met winteraande wat ons binnenshuis hou, kom Sjef Maradine aan met perfekte resepte om ons gelukkig en warm te hou. Hierdie week maak ons Pizza roosterbrood.
Amateur MMA-vegter Lukasz Bukovac het onlangs 0-2 in een aand behaal, ondanks dat hy net een teenstander geveg het nadat hy sy huweliksaansoek wreed deur sy meisie voor 20 000 mense verwerp het.
Conspiracies about Russia's sun mimicking satellite have surfaced, some even claiming that it could be used for more than just Russian agriculture, even though it has been decommissioned.
Stel jou voor dat jy kos uit die lug kweek. Dit is waarskynlik onmoontlik, maar 'n Finse maatskappy het iets naby gedoen. Solar Foods maak Solein, 'n geel, proteïenryke poeier wat geproduseer word deur mikrobes koolstofdioksied, waterstof en suurstof te voed wat uit die lug geneem word.
British Show Pony Society se aankondiging op 1 April oor 'n nuwe tipe kampioenskap was eg, met £300 prys vir wenners!
’n Superfan van Ed Sheeran het die knoop deurgehaak met sy spoegbeeld wat die Perfect Duet saam met ’n magdom Hollywood-beroemdes lyk maak.
’n 9-jarige meisie in Skotland het harte verower deur ’n by met behulp van heuning en selfgemaakte motiveringsplakkate te red en weer gesond te maak.
Met die winter reeds hier, wil Sjef Maradine ons warm hou met hierdie stewige winterresepte. Hierdie week maak ons vetkoek en kerriemaalvleis.
Nuwe navorsing het aan die lig gebring dat die dra van 'n koptelefoon van £400 (R10 000) vir net 'n paar minute elke dag die trauma en ellende wat met 'n romantiese breuk gepaardgaan, kan verlig.
Sommige diabetesmedikasie kan gewigsverlies of gewigstoename veroorsaak. Daar word gesê dat Mounjaro, Ozempic en Trulicity tot aansienlike gewigsverlies lei. Ons gesels met ons interne dieetkundige Liezl van Zyl, wat vir ons 'n paar belangrike inligting hieroor gee.
The Duchess' ultra-coiffed appearance hours after giving birth wearing a maternity dress that resembles the dress worn by Mia Farrow in the 1968 horror film Rosemary's Baby.
Kenners het gevind dat jong manlike bottelneusdolfyne "volwasse-agtige voortplantingsgedrag beoefen wanneer hulle saam speel" en meer geneig is om "meer nageslag te verwek" wanneer hulle grootword as hulle meer tyd spandeer om met hul mede-jonges te speel.
Die polisie in die Finse stad Espoo het die afgelope paar jaar 'n intrige taktiek gebruik om jeugdiges daarvan te hou om op 'n plaaslike strand partytjie te hou – om klassieke musiek uit luidsprekers te blaas.
Die fortuinverteller Jemima Packington (67) gebruik die groen spiese om die toekoms te openbaar, en die goeie nuus is dat Engeland die Euro 2024-toernooi sal WEN.
Het jy al ooit gewonder hoe die kleur blou sal smaak? Of dalk hoe die nommer 3 klink? Wel, sommige mense hoef nie te wonder nie, hulle weet reeds!
’n Algerynse man is onlangs skuldig bevind aan onsedelike gedrag en tot twee maande agter tralies gevonnis omdat hy willekeurige mense op straat omhels het om vrede en positiwiteit te versprei.
’n Lepel wat kos souter laat smaak, is in Japan beskikbaar. Die gereedskap is gerig op diegene wat sukkel om hul soutinname te verminder en navorsers is oortuig daarvan dat dit gesonde eetgewoontes sal bevorder.
Man wat wreed geslaan is, ontwikkel 'n seldsame toestand wat hom wiskundige vorms laat sien oral waar hy kyk.
Keratopigmentasie is 'n prosedure wat die kleur van die oë verander wat deur kundiges as "nie veilig" geklassifiseer is nie.
Whitney Wolfe Herd, die stigter van die dating app Bumble, dink dat miljoene lui enkellinge binnekort KI kan gebruik om al die harde werk te doen in die soeke na romanse.
'n Sjef met 'n Michelin-ster het saamgespan met die Florida-gebaseerde maatskappy Space Perspective om aan die einde van 2025 heerlike kos na ons boonste atmosfeer te neem.
Die winter is om die draai en een van die "warmste" maaltye wat Suid-Afrikaners in hierdie tyd van die jaar liefhet, moet 'n goeie ou Poitjie wees. Wel, Sjef Maradine verstaan dit en bring vir ons 'n Hoenderpotjie-resep vir vanjaar se winter.
’n Belgiese man is vrygespreek van dronkbestuur nadat dokters bewys het hy het ’n toestand wat beteken dat sy liggaam sy eie alkohol produseer.
Soos altyd is Sjef Maradine reg op tyd met 'n perfekte resep. Hierdie week, vir jou winterbraaisessies, bring Sjef Maradine vir ons 'n paar wonderlike winterslaairesepte.
Skaakboks val onder wat bekend staan as 'n hibriede sport aangesien dit in twee dissiplines verdeel is en skaak en boks kombineer.
In 'n poging om geld vir haar troue te spaar, het die bruid Maria Cortese besluit om ChatGPT te gebruik, het haar troubeplanner.
Nico haal die Suid-Afrikaanse opnamekunstenaar, Appel, in. Appel deel hoe hy sy musiekskryf-inspirasie kry en wat mense by sy komende optrede by Bloemskou 2024 kan verwag.
Soos klokslag is Sjef Maradine terug met nog 'n resep wat ons kan probeer. Hierdie week maak ons Bokkaas en heuning filo sakke
'n Man uit Quebec wat aan liggaamsintegriteit-identiteitsversteuring (BIID) ly, het 'n dokter gevra om die vierde en vyfde vingers van sy linkerhand te verwyder omdat hy gevoel het hulle hoort nie aan sy liggaam nie.
Die eenvoudige fout van 'n regsfirmaklerk wat per ongeluk die verkeerde lêer uit 'n aftreklys op 'n aanlynportaal gekies het, het gelei tot die onherroeplike egskeiding van die verkeerde egpaar.
'n Ambagsbraaiery in die Finse hoofstad het 'n koffiemengsel bekendgestel wat deur kunsmatige intelligensie ontwikkel is.
Meer as agt uit 10 mense gebruik YouTube om hulle te help om besluite oor hul gesondheid en welstand te neem, volgens 'n nuwe studie.
Wetenskaplikes dink dat 'n skeepsvretende seewurm - ook bekend as 'n 'naakte mossel' - 'n alternatief vir die klassieke Britse vis en skyfies kan wees.
Elke lente swem duisende visse deur die stad Utrecht — sowat 35 kilometer suid van Amsterdam — op soek na 'n plek om hul eiers te lê. Maar hulle moet dikwels stilhou en wag by die Weerdsluis-sluis, wat nie gereeld in die lente oopmaak nie. En terwyl hulle wag, is hulle kwesbaar vir roofdiere.
Die streek het die Europese Kommissie gevra om dit toestemming te gee om 'n nuwe tydsone met hierdie yslike 26-uur dae te vestig. Die afgeleë dorp wil hê sy mense moet, wel, eenvoudig net meer tyd hê.
’n Plaaslike diere-organisasie in Kaapstad gaan later vandeesmaand sy eerste Gala-dinee aanbied ten bate van hawelose diere.
’n 94-jarige avonturier – wat verlede jaar opslae gemaak het omdat hy die oudste persoon was wat al 63 Amerikaanse nasionale parke besoek het – het pas teruggekeer van Chili en die Galápagos-eilande op haar nuutste soeke: om al sewe kontinente te verower.
Aangesien die winter om die draai is, het sjef Maradine besluit om so reg te maak met hierdie heerlike sopresep
The Joyride het vandag Ruby Kriel van Griekwastad met R1000 beloon vir haar waagmoed om aan Time Trap deel te neem terwyl 'n slang na haar loer...
'n OFM luisteraar het vanmiddag meer gekry as waarvoor sy beplan het, toe 'n sissende besoeker by haar aansluit terwyl sy aan Time Trap op The Joyride deelgeneem het.
’n Nigeriese vrou staar tot sewe jaar tronkstraf in die gesig omdat sy na bewering haar land se kubermisdaadwette oortree het deur ’n negatiewe aanlyn resensie te plaas vir ’n blikkie tamatiepuree.
With recent new civil cases launched against the music mogul in US courts, more and more evidence has suggested that somehow, P. Diddy could be connected to Michael Jackson's death. Was he part of a bigger conspiracy to get rid of the King of Pop?
As jy deur 'n skeiding gaan, maak nie saak hoe narelik nie, sal jy van jou eks steel?
Dit is 'n raaisel waardeur baie gaan wanneer hulle skei en in die bui is vir 'n bietjie kleinigheid.
Nico chats to Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sandi Thom. Sandi tells about navigating her way into music, moving from Scotland to the US and her new single Revolution Anthem (Festival Of The Oppressed).
Die speelgoedmaatskappy Lego het 'n polisiedepartement in Suid-Kalifornië gevra om op te hou om Lego-koppe by te voeg om die gesigte van verdagtes te bedek in beelde wat dit op sosiale media deel.
’n Koper het $718 750 opgedok vir een van die mees omstrede houtplanke in die rolprentgeskiedenis: die deurraampaneel wat Rose se lewe in die 1997-rolprent Titanic gered het.
Drie seuns, ouderdomme 11, 12 en 16, en genaamd die "Little Rascals," is onlangs in hegtenis geneem nadat hulle deur hul ouers ingehandig is vir die beroof van 'n Houston-bank.
Recently, we experience an internet black-out across the globe, could this be the reason?
’n Multimiljoenêr in China het sy enorme rykdom geheim gehou vir sy seun totdat hy aan die universiteit gegradueer het. Volgens South China Morning Post is Zhang Zilong die seun van Zhang Yudong, stigter en president van die Hunan-pittige gluten-latiao-handelsmerk Mala Prince.
Binnekort sal besoekers wat by die Amerigo Vespucci-lughawe aankom, besienswaardighede kan begin deur net terug te kyk na die lughawe - want daar sal wingerde wees wat sy dak bedek!
YouTuber en dokumentêre vervaardiger Ruhi Çenet het 'n besoek aan die 'naaste dorp aan die ruimte' gebring waar daar toevallig 50 persent minder suurstof is.
Kambodjaanse premier, Hun Manet, het 'n verbod op musikale toeters beveel, nadat video's wat op sosiale media geplaas is, gewys het hoe mense op paaie en paaie dans terwyl verbygaande vragmotors ritmiese klein deuntjies blaas.
Al ooit gewonder hoekom jou tong tintel wanneer jy pynappel eet? Wat as ons vir jou sê jou tong tintel omdat die pynappel terugveg, sal dit ontspannend of vreemd wees?
Die betrokke meer is in die noorde van Georgia, VSA, en het 'n onheilspellende reputasie verwerf. Lake Lanier is 'n kunsmatige meer wat bo-op dorpe en begraafplase gebou is en is vernoem na skrywer, digter, musikant en veteraan van die Konfederale weermag, Sidney Lanier.
Gestresde Chinese ouers kry glo hartaanvalle en beroertes terwyl hulle hul kinders help met huiswerk, veral wiskunde.
Die Suid-Afrikaanse aktivis Ian Cameron gesels met die Joyride oor die jongste situasie in die suide van Bloemfontein waar grondgrype burgers in die steek gelaat het.
One Saturday, a Redditor headed to r/Humanoidencounters to share the harrowing tale of his face-off with a massive insect, one he says ambushed him in his sleep when he was 19.
’n Massachusetts-biblioteek laat klante met verlore of beskadigde items toe om hul fooie te betaal met ’n ongewone vorm van geldeenheid: katprente.
Volgens engoo.com het opnames gevind dat meer en meer mense raad kry van "Dr. Google" - en dit veroorsaak iets wat "cyberchondria" genoem word.
’n Passasier het eenkeer gevra vir ’n selfie met ’n man wat die vliegtuig waarop hy was gekaap het. Die Brit het sedert die voorval gepraat en onthul presies hoekom hy gekies het om 'n foto met die kaper te neem.
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’n Akademikus van die Universiteit van Cambridge wat sewe uur lank in die badkamer van ’n Middeleeuse toring vasgekeer was, het gesê sy het inspirasie van MacGyver gekry om haar te laat ontsnap.
Nico en Nikki haal 2024 Dallmayr Mev Suid-Afrika semi-finalis, Kay Lee Badenhorst, in. Kay Lee vertel ons van haar reis in Mev Suid-Afrika tot dusver en wat haar geïnteresseerd het om aan die kompetisie deel te neem.
Lasse Stolley (17) leef waarskynlik die lokomotief-entoesias Francis Bourgeois se droom uit, aangesien hy letterlik – en wettiglik – op verskeie Deutsche Bahn-treine woon.
’n Laaste groot hoogtepunt van die dag was die aankondiging van die wenner van vliegkaartjies vir iemand wat nog nooit op ’n vliegtuig gevlieg het nie. Yolanda en Alex du Pisani van Viljoenskroon sal eersdaags hierdie ervaring op hul wenslys afmerk. Dit was ook die dag Alex se verjaarsdag en die paartjie vier op die 1ste Maart hul huweliksherdenking.
Op die Joyride, het Nico van der Westhuizen, Nikki van der Linde en Kayla Barker gesorg dat die dag afsluit op ’n hoë musikale noot, asook die gebruiklike Skrikkeldag huweliksaanbod – die keer van Theunissen. Liana Weideman het Barend Howard die ‘ja-woord’ gevra en dié twee se storie het die span asook van die luisteraars wat gelukwense ingestuur het, in trane gehad.
Die Chinese telefoonmaatskappy Honor het 'n nuwe KI-oognasporingsfunksie onthul wat in staat is om op te spoor wanneer 'n persoon na die skerm kyk.
The U.S. military has done some strange things in its existence. It created fake armies full of inflatable tanks. It trained soldiers to read minds. It has footage of UFOs. And then there was that time it faked a series of vampire attacks as part of a counterinsurgency strategy.
Kay-Lee Badenhorst, a wife, mother, and semi-finalist in the 2024 Mrs South Africa competition joined The Joyride. Based in Gauteng but having spent many years living in Central South Africa, she has the heart of a true Central South African. She is passionate about women, children, health, and wellness. She is excited about the opportunities and possibilities this new chapter brings.
Hierdie jong man het probeer om 'n gesteelde merrie in die trap van 'n multi-familie gebou in te lei, sodat hy nie gevang sou word nie.
’n Vrou gaan die eerste persoon word wat trou met ’n hologram wat deur kunsmatige intelligensie aangedryf word.
’n Man van Florida haal makliker asem noudat 150 lewende goggas uit sy neus verwyder is.
Alex is 'n hasie van 30 pond wat in 2020 deur Josh Row en Kei Kato uit 'n slaghuis gered is, het SWNS berig.
Wetenskaplikes aan Suid-Korea se Yonsei Universiteit het 'n nuwe soort basterrys geskep wat nie net 'n vleisagtige pienk kleur het nie, maar ook propvol beesproteïene en vetselle is.
The hundredth monkey effect is an esoteric idea claiming that a new behavior or idea is spread rapidly by unexplained means from one group to all related groups once a critical number of members of one group exhibit the new behavior or acknowledge the new idea.
Jou troeteldier verskyn skielik by jou voete net soos jy dit oorweeg of dit die regte tyd is om hulle te voer of uit te neem vir 'n stap, so het hulle jou gedagtes gelees of is daar 'n meer aanneemlike rede?
Ierland se Virgin Media News het hierdie week virale gegaan met sy TV-segment oor wat dit beskryf het as 'n "geheimsinnige gat" wat op 'n Dublin-strand ontdek is.
As jy ooit by die skool opgestaan het vir enige soort tomfoolery, het jy dalk op die een of ander manier jou hand met 'n potlood gesteek om 'n merk te laat.
Reisliefhebbers is lewenslank van vaarte uitgestel nadat hulle 'n video gekyk het wat 'n eng gedeelte onthul waarvan niemand blykbaar weet nie.
Met net handdoeke om hul middel, het klante aan boord van 'n drywende sauna in 'n Noorse fjord twee mense gered wie se motor in die water geduik het.
’n Motor-skroefmaatskappy in Brittanje bied aan gejaagde ekse die kans om voormalige minnaars na die rommelhoop vir Valentynsdag te stuur.
Pizza-toevoegings moet een van die kosonderwerpe wat die meeste bespreek word ooit wees! Maar 'n Pizza Hut in Japan het hierdie debat na 'n heel nuwe vlak geneem met 'n nuwe toping, Ramen.
Daar is 'n paar ernstig ontstellende webwerwe op die internet wat jou laat vra, "hoe veilig is my inligting?".
Nosh Food Rescue en The People's Pantry maak seker dat kos wat vir stortingsterrein bestem is, na sopkombuise en mense in nood herlei word, wat tonne bruikbare kos red en die nasie voed.
After an entire week of searching, we finally found it! Support Bafana Bafana in the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations the only way South Africans know how to. Here's a jam to help you show your support.
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An elderly Chinese woman has decided to leave her 20 million yuan ($2.8 million) fortune to her pet cats and dogs, claiming that they were always there for her, unlike her three children.
'n Man het die term 'skerp pyn' baie letterlik opgeneem nadat chirurge 'n mes in sy kop ontdek het. Li Fuyan van China het al vier jaar lank hoofpyn gehad, maar het nooit uitgevind hoekom nie totdat hy uiteindelik die dokters besoek het.
'n Ketting van Kentucky geriefswinkels lok besoekers en gaan aanlyn viraal vir 'n ongewone kenmerk.
’n Boekliefdevolle vyfjarige het vreugde vir versorgingshuisbewoners gebring deur sy gunstelingstories vir hulle te lees.
Koerantknipsels van 1924 toon 'n indrukwekkende aantal akkurate voorspellings oor hoe die lewe in 2024 sou wees.
Yep! That's what the latest conspiracy seems to elude to, he isn't dead, he is instead a "300-year-old vampire. Where's the proof? Well, the US dollar bill might have the answer.
Die Doomsday Clock is opgedateer, met die wêreld wat 'diep onstabiel' bly op pad na 2024 en daarna. Die horlosie wys ons presies hoe naby die mensdom is om wêreldwye katastrofe te ly, wat deur onsself veroorsaak is.
Lughawens is gedwing om hul veiligheidsmaatreëls te verander, aangesien dit 'n bietjie opdringerig kan wees.
DPD het sy kunsmatige intelligensie (KI) aanlyn kletsbot gedeaktiveer nadat 'n klant die bot kon laat vloek en 'n gedig skryf wat die pakkie afleweringsmaatskappy kritiseer.
Die 32-jarige Kelsey Hatcher het geboorte geskenk aan broederlike babadogters by die Birmingham-hospitaal. Die tweeling het egter uit twee afsonderlike baarmoeders gekom.
Die Lucky Restaurant is reg bo-op 'n begraafplaas gebou en vertoon die grafte binne en tussen tafels en stoele.
Essie Gilchrist, bekend as Mama Essie vir die baie kinders wat sy gepleeg het, slaak 'n asem wanneer sy uitvind dat een van haar pleegkinders na haar soek
Dit blyk dat Nike se UV-blokkerende kontaklense 'n ware ding was en ons is almal verstom om van hul bestaan te hoor.
John DeSouza, a 25 year veteran of the FBI, exposed a planned UFO invasion that the Pentagon is currently promoting.
New research suggests that morning people are like this because of genes inherited from Neanderthals.
’n Wildfotograaf in Wallis het ’n kamera in sy gereedskapskuur opgestel om uit te vind hoekom voorwerpe rondbeweeg en ontdek ’n “netjiese muis” was besig om vir hom skoon te maak.
'n Ou wat die 'lewende Nostradamus' genoem is, het onthul wat hy reken 2024 vir ons almal inhou. Net vir ingeval jy nie lus was om te wag om uit te vind nie.
A California animal shelter announced it met its goal of finding new homes for every dog at the facility in time for the new year.
Vir haar laaste resep van die jaar bring Sjef Maradine vir ons een van die beste nageregte wat 'n mens kan hê na 'n yslike Kersmiddagete.
'n Brouery en 'n roommakery het in Oregon saamgespan om 'n produk te skep wat hulle erken dalk 'n bietjie "skeptisisme" kan inspireer - bloukaasbier.
Het jy geweet, jy kan uitvind of jy 'n psigopaat is deur net hierdie raaisel te beantwoord?
Toe Mathilda Paul vir haar skooldrama-onderwyseres Helen Janke vertel dat dit haar droom is om op die verhoog te wees, het mev Janke dood in haar spore gestop.
"Dit behoort nie 'n droom te wees nie, dit is 'n reg," het sy gesê.
Tyd om jou Kersmiddagete-spyskaart uit te sorteer & sjef Maradine het jou gesorteer met iets vir die hoofgereg!
Lede van 'n Internasionale Ruimtestasie-bemanning het gesê ruimtevaarder Frank Rubio is nou skoongemaak van bewerings dat hy een van die eerste tamaties geëet het wat in die ruimte geoes is.
Nico chats with film director Uga Carlini about her latest project. Uga directed a film that tells the story of Elizabeth Klarer, a woman, who in the 50s, claimed to have been abducted by an alien who she then had a child with.
'n Kaliforniese provinsie se distriksprokureur het aangekondig dat 'n 17-jarige regsklerk die jongste persoon geword het om die staat se balie-eksamen te slaag.
Ons het al die jare gedink Sean Paul het sy eie naam aan die begin van sy liedjies geskree, reg? Dit blyk dat ons verkeerd is en was!
Diana Álvarez, wat 'n snit op TikTok gedeel het, het deur die kamer verfilm en die onopvallende klerekas gewys wat aan die agterkant van haar kamer geleë is, naby 'n vrystaande bad.
"Vir 13 duisend Amerikaanse dollars het die Engelsman Brendon Grimshaw 'n piepklein onbewoonde eiland in die Seychelle gekoop en daarheen verhuis. Toe Grimshaw in sy veertigs was, het hy sy werk as koerantredakteur bedank en 'n nuwe lewe begin.
Net betyds vir die feesseisoen soos altyd, gee Sjef Maradine vir ons 'n paar resepte wat die hele gesin gelukkig sal hou!
Die sentrale Suid-Afrikaanse streek sukkel nou al vir 'n paar maande met watertekorte en kwessies en daar word blykbaar nie veel aan die probleem gedoen nie. Die Joyride het 'n paar gemeenskapsleiers en lede ingehaal wat lig op die krisis gewerp het.
Die sentrale Suid-Afrikaanse streek sukkel nou al vir 'n paar maande met watertekorte en kwessies en daar word blykbaar nie veel aan die probleem gedoen nie. Die Joyride het 'n paar gemeenskapsleiers en lede ingehaal wat lig op die krisis gewerp het.
Katelyn Thornley het 'n pynlike mediese toestand wat veroorsaak dat sy meer as 'n duisend keer per dag nies.
Though she may be one of the most iconic figures in pop music, fans just can’t seem to recognize Christina Aguilera after she debuted what several have dubbed her “new face” in a recent sponsored TikTok video.
Lotito is gebore met 'n veerkragtige spysverteringstelsel en 'n superdik maagvoering en ingewande. Dit het beteken dat hy amper enigiets kon eet en goed gaan. So hy het 'n vliegtuig geëet!
Formule Een-jaer Valtteri Bottas het $150 000 vir mansgesondheid-liefdadigheid Movember ingesamel ná 'n 'Bottass 2024'-kalender met foto's van hom wat sy agterkant van die rakke af weggejaag het.
In 2018 is aangekondig dat Bezos in 'n projek belê het wat 'n reuse-horlosie van 10 000 jaar in 'n berg in Wes-Texas sou sien - 'n horlosie wat Bezos terloops $42 miljoen teruggestel het.
Deur 'n 'supersoniese pomp' te gebruik, hoop ingenieurs wat op NASA se X-59-passasiersvliegtuig werk om reisigers vinniger as die spoed van klank te vervoer. Trouens, hulle hoop dat die nuwe vliegtuig amper twee keer so vinnig as Concorde sal vlieg.
Dokters in Missouri, VSA, het meer gekry as waarvoor hulle beding het nadat hulle 'n kolonoskopie op die 63-jarige pasiënt uitgevoer het en 'n vlieg in sy ingewande gevind het.
There's a wild conspiracy theory floating around that Matthew Perry's recent "Mattman" posts before his death were a cry for help, could this be true?
’n Duitse TikToker se virale storie het mense daaraan herinner om twee keer te dink om hul elektroniese toestelle na te gaan voordat hulle dit aan spaarsaamheidswinkels soos Goodwill skenk.
"Balenciaga verkoop 'n handdoek wat om iemand se middel as 'n romp gedraai is vir $925,"
'n Hond se skerp neus het 'n inwoner van Cornwall na 'n mynskag gelei, waar haar kat Mowgli 100 voet af was, verlore en alleen vir 6 dae.
Sjef Maradine gee hierdie week vir ons 'n maklike resep perfek vir daardie soettand wat jy gedurende die vakansie wegsteek.
Die Chileense kunstenaar Marco Evaristti, veral bekend vir sy skepping 'Helena & El Pascador', het die stuk in 2000 by die Trapholt Museum, Denemarke, gedebuteer. Maar het Marco hierdie keer te ver gegaan?
It's creepy and borders on the paranormal in a way, but the story of how The Loretto Chapel's stairs were built, remains an interesting mystery.
‘Krieket’ is die nuwe slaapneiging wat die rondte op sosiale media gedoen het – en as jy wonder of die naam van die sport of die raserige insek kom, is dit die insek.
'n Dam in Hawaii het so borrelgompienk geword dat dit van die stel van "Barbie" kan wees, maar die bisarre verskynsel is geen rede vir 'n danspartytjie nie.
Kommunikasie is oral in die wêreld die sleutel, maar soms is die taalversperring geneig om 'n probleem te wees. Daarom is dit belangrik om meer as 1 taal te probeer leer.
Ontmoet Jessica Wade, 'n vrou wat Wikipedia-biografieë oor vroue en minderheidswetenskaplikes begin skryf het.
Na 'n rukkie is ons huissjef terug! Vandeesweek begin Sjef Maradine die feesresepte bietjie vroeg met 'n heerlike vlaskyfresep.
Nico gesels met buitengewone teater en Hoof van Dramatiese Kunste by Eunice Meisieskool Dr Niel van Niekerk. Dr van Niekerk vertel ons van sy reis in onderwys en waarvan hy die meeste hou van werk met kinders.
A lot of artists have ghost writers, other artists who write music for them. Neo has written for Beyonce, Ed Sheeran for Justin Bieber & Dolly Parton for Whitney Houston! But did you know that some artists can also have ghost singers?
Hierdie vrou het gedink sy het 'n fout in die matriks ontdek nadat sy 'n foto van haarself in haar trourok gesien het.
Gebrande roosterbrood bevat verbindings wat jou risiko kan verhoog om mettertyd kanker te kry, en hoe donkerder die braai, hoe meer van hierdie verbindings is teenwoordig.
Al ooit gewonder hoe jou hond weet presies hoe laat jy by die huis kom na werk? Daar is 'n wetenskaplike antwoord.
Ons het al gehoor van aksiesokker, netbal en selfs aksiehokkie, maar het jy al ooit van aksierugby gehoor? Wel, ons het ook nie, so Nico het vir Leon Bolton van Bloemfontein Action Sports gekry om ons bietjie meer oor die nuwe sport te vertel.
A new conspiracy theory about Taylor Swift has surfaced, making us wonder if she is being sneaky and dishonest or if she just has a brilliant pr team.
Ons het almal gesien dat "Ek is nie 'n robot nie" blokkie wat ons op sekere webwerwe moet merk. Maar wat beteken dit regtig?
’n Sjoeker met ’n duiwelse streep het na bewering ’n reuse-haai-standbeeld op die bodem van ’n meer versteek met die enigste hoop om duikers te vrees.
'n Restaurant in die VSA hef sommige van sy klante vir hul onvermoë om hul kinders te beheer terwyl hulle daar eet.
Sam Kaplan van Lawrenceville, Georgia, het oor die jare baie items by sy CV gevoeg. Maar op 11 Mei, in sy 72ste lewensjaar, het hy 'n besonder laat lynitem bygevoeg - 'n universiteitsgraad.
Diep onder die grond in Roemenië, onder selfs 'n ou soutmyn, is daar 'n ongelooflike vreemde pretpark.
Cottesmore School, 'n koshuisvoorbereidingskool in Wes-Sussex, het nou saamgewerk met 'n kunsmatige intelligensie-ontwikkelaar om 'Abigail Bailey' te skep - 'n bot wat spesiaal ontwerp is om die volle menslike hoof, Tom Rogerson, by te staan.
’n Vrou het Walt Disney Parks and Resorts gedagvaar nadat sy gesê het sy het ernstige “beserings” op ’n waterglybaan by Florida se Disney World opgedoen, wat veroorsaak het dat sy in die hospitaal opgeneem is.
Die kinderrympie "The Muffin Man" het 'n lang en kronkelende geskiedenis. Dit het die eerste keer in die vroeë 19de eeu verskyn as 'n pittige deuntjie oor 'n sekere "Dandy Muffin-Man van Drury Lane." Dit is selfs in 1802 vir koning George III opgevoer.
Het jy al ooit daarvan gedroom om iewers ver, ver weg te bly? Vir liefhebbers van sprokies en woud-wegbreek, bied Airbnb 'n unieke verblyf in 'n "moeras" wat baie dalk bekend sal vind.
'n Paartjie in Florida het op 3 September 'n babadogtertjie in die wêreld verwelkom - hul derde baba wat op daardie datum gebore is. “Ons mond het gesak,” het pa Jeremy Turner (33) van Ocala, Florida, aan Fox News Digital gesê.
Sosiale media is verdeeld oor of hul fone in hul drome verskyn en of hulle die narratief suksesvol kan beïnvloed.
Ná ’n verwoede vier ure van soek en redding is ’n tweejarige kleuter van Michigan gevind waar hy in die bos slaap te midde van lieflike drome, feetjiestof en die twee gesinshonde wat sy “om haar vinger gedraai het”.
Sjef Maradine is terug met nog 'n resep wat sal help om deur daardie angsbelaaide Springbok-wêreldbekerwedstryd te kom.
In 'n nou-virale video op TikTok, het gebruiker @citzenscientist, ook bekend as Dillon Brooks, die Jedi mind trick-metode verduidelik
Die Suid-Afrikaanse Lewensreddingspan het pas teruggekeer van Kanada nadat hulle aan 'n internasionale kompetisie deelgeneem het, waar hulle 'n algehele 3de plek behaal het.
On the 13th hour of Oct. 13 2017, Flight 666 for HEL departed — for one final Friday the 13th flight.
Niko die eekhoring het die reis van 3 000 myl saam met sy eienaar, Yeison, van Venezuela na Matamoros in Mexiko gemaak, oorkant die Texas-grensstad Brownsville. Nou moet die paar dalk totsiens sê - maar vrywilligers veg om hulle bymekaar te hou.
’n Man het sy wêreldrekordtitel vir die grootste versameling tandepastabuisies behou. Val Kolpakov, 'n tandarts van Alpharetta, Georgia, het 'n versameling van duisende tandepastabuisies, volgens 'n nuwe persverklaring van Guinness World Records.
Al ooit gewonder hoekom sommige sangers blykbaar hul eie eienaardige manier het om woorde in hul liedjies uit te spreek?
Skerms het baie om voor te antwoord - seer oë, kinders wat meer tyd binnenshuis deurbring, TikTok. En hier is nog iets om by die lys te voeg: hulle kan ook ons asemhaling beïnvloed.
Back in 2015, there was big suspicion that Fernando Alonso was electrocuted by his McLaren-Honda car and since then, he apparently doesn't seem to age at all!
Daly is 'n pasmaat. Hy verbind mense vir 'n lewe - mense wat liefde wil vind. Hy noem homself Ierland se laaste tradisionele pasmaat. En elke September woon duisende mense sy Pasmaatsfees by in die klein dorpie Lisdoonvarna naby Ierland se weskus.
Viv Moss, van Newquay, het 'n verstommende £6 miljoen in 1998 opgeraap, en hoewel sy aanvanklik haar ou Ford Focus vir 'n cabriolet verruil het, het haar geliefde labrador Stanley nie die winderige rit geniet nie, so sy het dit vir 'n Bentley verruil.
’n Apokaliptiese video wys wat kan gebeur as die aarde deur ’n voorwerp vanuit die buitenste ruimte getref word.
NRO African Parks het die aankoop van die wêreld se grootste bevolking witrenosters in private besit aangekondig. Die nie-winsgewende bewaringsorganisasie beplan om die renosters te herwild na veilige en goed bestuurde beskermde gebiede regoor Afrika.
Sjef Maradine is terug met nog 'n slaairesep wat 'n perfekte kant sal wees vir jou naweek Bokke-braai!
Maak nie saak hoe cool jy is nie, dit is eenvoudig 'n feit dat almal van 'n bietjie karaoke hou vir 'n kans om hul gunstelingsnit uit te gordel. Maar wat as ons vir jou sê daar is een liedjie wat op een of ander manier mense "doodmaak" wat dit uitvoer?
Voormalige redders het besluit om 'n groot avontuur te gebruik as 'n geleentheid om terug te gee aan hul redders.
Die span word besoek deur die JF Drummie Klub wat onlangs goud by 'n internasionale kompetisie in Kroasië verower het
Looks like someone might have taken the best shot of Scotland's Loch Ness monster ever, back in 2018 already!
Een man in Alabama, VSA, het 50 jaar lank sy hele dorp Brantley deurgebring om te glo dat Bigfoot daar woon.
Genoem orkane in die Atlantiese Oseaan en tifone in die Stille Oseaan, sê wetenskaplikes hierdie kragtige storms word sterker en meer gereeld as gevolg van klimaatsverandering.
In wat beskryf kan word as óf 'n heroïese stuk ondersoekende joernalistiek óf 'n kolossale vermorsing van tyd, het 'n man vyf jaar daaraan gewy om die oorsprong van die 'universele S' te ontbloot.
The Joyride’s Kayla Barker speaks to Hanyani Shimange ahead of the 2023 Rugby World Cup.
As jy dink jy weet hoe jy lyk dan is jy waarskynlik verkeerd en sal waarskynlik ook nie so mooi lyk soos jy dink nie, ten minste is dit wat die wetenskap sê.
’n Vrou wat vergeetagtigheid en depressie ervaar het, se 8 cm lange parasitiese rondewurm is uit haar brein verwyder.
As jy dink jy het 'n slegte dag gehad, kom ons kyk of ons dit op een of ander manier kan verander. Ontmoet Peggy Jones, iemand wat die frase "wat anders kan verkeerd loop" tot die uiterste neem!
Stel u belang om 'n opgeknapte missielsilo te koop en te woon? Wel, soek nie verder nie! Jy kan nou een in Nebraska koop vir die nie-so-winskoopprys van $750,000!
'n Man van Georgia word van 'n misdryf aangekla nadat hy daarvan beskuldig is dat hy 'n stoep van 'n buurman se voortuin gesteel het, volgens die Coweta County-balju se kantoor.
’n Paartjie in die VSA koop skaars by supermarkte omdat hulle groente vreet en roadkill eet.
Daar is 'n bisarre agtergrond agter hoekom die sjokoladestafie Snickers Snickers genoem word. Die sjokoladestafie is bekend vir sy hemelse versnit van nougat bedek met karamel en grondboontjies, alles omhul in 'n bietjie watertand melksjokolade om alles te kroon.
Vreemdelinge is die gesprek van die dorp op die oomblik! Verlede maand het 'n voormalige Amerikaanse intelligensiebeampte die bomaansprake onder eed gemaak dat die Pentagon in besit was van uitheemse tegnologie en 'nie-menslike liggame'.
Op 'n lowerryke boulevard in die middestad van Havana slaan 'n man homself met 'n voorhamer, op sy polse, elmboë en voorarms, en trek 'n skare verbygangers wat saamdrom om die skouspel met hul fone te verfilm.
’n Gesin wat verblyf op Airbnb bespreek het, was stomgeslaan en verras toe hulle aankom en sien hoeveel reëls oral in die huis geplak is.
Hierdie spesifieke stel bevat alles wat jy nodig het om teen 'n vampier te veg. Begin met 'n kruis en heilige water om hul veronderstelde vervloekte oorsprong teë te werk. Gevolg deur 'n houtpaal en selfs 'n geweer en toerusting om silwer koeëls te maak!
Al ooit in 'n nies gehou om beleefd te wees? Wel, jy sal twee keer dink om dit te doen nadat jy dit gelees het.
Kopluise is iets waarvan jy regtig ontslae wil raak, reg? Verkeerde! Hierdie ma wil nie enige van hierdie luise van haar dogter se kop verwyder nie.
'n Lewenslange voorraad toebroodjies is redelik aanloklike aanbod, maar hoe ver is jy bereid om te gaan vir gratis toebroodjies?
Soos klimaatsverandering versnel, begin wetenskaplikes 'zombievirusse' in die smeltende permafrost ontbloot. MAAR, die "zombie-apokalips" is glad nie op ons nie.
Hierdie egpaar is uitmekaar toe hulle in die 50's tieners was. 63 jaar later het hulle mekaar gevind en is steeds verlief soos voorheen.
Jy het dalk gesien dat 'n Chinese sonbeer die internet onlangs verdeel het, omdat dit viraal geword het vir sy ongelooflike ooreenkoms met 'n 'man in 'n pak'.
Footage of what seems to be an "alien" has made the rounds all over social media. The video allegedly features a 10-foot tall alien in a Nevada Family's backyard.
'n Verhuurder het 'wokery' geslaan nadat hy deur diereregte-aktiviste gedruk is om die naam van sy kroeg te verander.
'n Nuwe studie het bevind dat die liggaam 'n verbinding in eiers gebruik om serotonien te maak, die chemikalie wat mense gelukkig laat voel
'n Restaurant in Jordanië bied sy kliënte 'n geleentheid om 'n middagslapie te neem nadat hulle die land se nasionale gereg genaamd Mansaf geëet het
Dit sien ons gaan dalk net weer op 'n kosavontuur! Hierdie week neem Sjef Maradine ons al die pad na Mexiko met 'n heerlike Taco-resep.
Nico gesels met die 17-jarige Mt Everest-oorwinnaar Micayla McMahon. Sy vertel ons van haar reis en hoe dit was om die berg Everest te bestyg.
Aangesien desperate tye desperate maatreëls nodig het, het Indiese krieketaanhangers begin soek na innoverende maniere om die Indië-Pakistan Wêreldbeker-kragmeting op 15 Oktober in Ahmedabad te sien.
Ses myl suid van Big Pine Key, Florida, sal jy Looe Key Reef vind waar The Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival jaarliks plaasvind. Looe Key Reef is deel van die Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, wat in 1990 gestig is om 3 800 vierkante myl van die see te beskerm, insluitend die enigste lewende koraalversperringsrif in die Verenigde State.
Volgens wetenskaplikes is een manier om stygende seevlakke te bekamp, om geboue te begin gebruik wat op water dryf.
As dit by aanlyn inkopies kom, het ons gedink ons het dit alles tot nou toe gesien! ’n Vrou verkoop ’n hobbelperd wat sy beweer homself van kamer tot kamer kan beweeg.
Beweeg deur 'n begeerte om mense te help om hartseer en angs te hanteer wat veroorsaak word deur COVID-19, Brexit en die klimaatkrisis, wou kunstenaar Annie Nicholson 'n ruimte skep waar die publiek hartseer kan uitskud en hul klimaatangs kan ontrafel.
Het jy geweet dat net soos mense veilige bloed kan skenk vir diegene wat dit nodig het, so kan diere ook? Wel, dit is waar en die Verenigde Koninkryk kry dalk sy eerste bloedbank vir katte!
Nikki gesels met die bekende Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer, joernalis en TV-aanbieder Ruda Landman. Ruda vertel ons van haar dae as onderwyser, tyd in die weermag en hoe haar mediareis begin het.
Police have been baffled by a mysterious "unidentified" dome that washed up on a West Australian beach. The giant metal object was found by locals at Green Head beach, about 250km (155 miles) north of Perth. State and federal authorities are investigating the item, which is not currently believed to be from a commercial aircraft.
Alastair Tyson het gevrees dat Mini Tyson vir ewig verlore sou wees nadat hy die beer op 9 Julie op die kruin van Buachaille Etive Beag agtergelaat het. Die teddie was op 'n aantal avonture, insluitend op mnr Tyson se wittebrood.
A well-known fast food resturant franchise in Brazil has decided to celebrate the arrival of the much anticipated Barbie movie in glamorous fashion!
Sjef Maradine het besluit om 'n "TikTok"-uitdaging aan te pak met hierdie week se resep
In 1967 is Seeland gestig as 'n soewereine Prinsdom op 'n militêre vesting, sewe myl van die oostelike kus van Brittanje af..
Mia van der Walt and Jané Rautenbach, two talented young dancers, proudly waved the South African flags as they emerged as champions at the Freestyle World Championships held in Blackpool, England.
In news that may be found to be bizarre for some but great for others, the Pentagon has spoken about the possibility that there might be an "Alien mothership" in our galaxy.
Die Toronto-dieretuin vra besoekers om te help om skermtyd vir sekere primate te beperk deur te weerhou om selfoonvideo's aan die fasiliteit se gorillas te wys.
'n Man wat aan die 'wêreld se pynlikste plant' geraak het, het gedeel hoe dit voel en dit behoort nie as 'n skok te kom dat dit nie juis lekker is nie.
Phil Stringer het onlangs 'n reisiger se nagmerrie en droom waar geword, alles op een dag beleef toe hy 'n vlugvertraging van 18 uur uitgewag het om homself die enigste passasier op die vliegtuig te vind.
Misterie-munte het regoor Manchester verskyn. Mancunians vind die munte oral in die stad; by bushaltebanke, op parkbankies, bo-op rande, weggesteek in parkeerkaartjiemasjiene, kosbane en omtrent orals anders tussenin.
'n Pasgebore babadogtertjie wat in 'n Safe Haven Baby Box in Florida agtergelaat is, het haar vir ewig tuis gevind by die einste brandweerman wat haar ontdek het.
Videospeletjiekompetisies het sedertdien baie groter geword - speletjies soos Fortnite of League of Legends kry miljoene aanhangers wat hul kompetisies aanlyn kyk, en die wenners kan miljoene dollars in prysgeld kry.
You read that headline right! A video posted by Daily Mail sees James Cameron say he had known about the Titan submersible imploding the day after it happened, while the world was led to believe the search was still going on.
Pink is verstom gelaat nadat ’n aanhanger hul ma se as op die verhoog gegooi het terwyl sy in Londen opgetree het. Die sangeres was verstom by die BST Hyde Park-fees tydens 'n vertolking van haar treffer Just Like A Pill.
’n Vrou is woedend gelaat nadat haar skoonma vir haar ’n tatoeëermerk-verwyderingsbewys vir haar verjaardag geskenk het – maar sy het daarin geslaag om die belediging onderstebo te keer.
'n Paartjie in Tokio het die idee om 'n "emosionele ondersteuning" dier na die volgende vlak te hê deur burgers te vra om hul 2 Alpakkas te troetel om hul stres te verlig.
Met die wêreld wat op een of ander manier behep is om die nuutste slimfoon te kry, kom dit as 'n vreemde verrassing dat baie tieners begin kies het vir wat hulle die "dom foon" noem.
Ter voorbereiding vir die Curriebeker-eindstryd tussen die Cheetahs & die Pumas, het Sjef Maradine die perfekte braai-ete vir ons!
With the recent National Health Insurance bill being passed, many South Africans find themselves confused and in the dark about what the bill would actually mean for them. Nico had a chat with Deon Kotze, Chief Product Officer at Discovery Health, who gives much needed information in this regard.
Navorsers wat dierelewe op 'n stuk van Texas se Golfkus dokumenteer, het 'n video gedeel wat 'n ongewone ontdekking dokumenteer: 'n kluis wat op die strand uitgespoel het.
'n Gesin in Kalifornië het 'n reusagtige versteekte voorraad van die kopermunte gevind, maar hulle sukkel om dit in te ruil. Sommige is van finansiële instellings wat nie meer bestaan nie. Kan hierdie meer werd wees?
’n Britse man is aangehou nadat hy Maandag met net sy kaal hande meer as halfpad teen die wêreld se vyfde hoogste wolkekrabber in Seoel geklim het, het die owerhede gesê.
Terug in 2017 het Sheehan 'n proses uitgevind wat koolstofdioksied in alkohol kan verander, wat dan in vodka, parfuum en gis verander kan word. Sy maatskappy, Air Company, is nou in die derde en laaste fase van die internasionale kompetisie om nuwe, spelveranderende voedseltegnologieë vir langtermyn-ruimtesendings te skep.
’n Driejarige weermaghond wat erg in ’n vuurpylaanval in die Oekraïne beseer is, het ’n nuwe werk gekry – saam met die Hongaarse polisie.
’n Man het sy eie dood nagemaak en treurende gaste verras deur sy begrafnis met ’n helikopter binne te gaan.
An art historian claims to have been able to decipher the location of the Mona Lisa in Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting - and it's not where most people had assumed.
Sanja Hanekom het op haar Facebook-rekening onthul dat sy uiteindelik die pakkie wat sy 13 jaar gelede verwag het, via die Suid-Afrikaanse Poskantoor ontvang het.
Deense reisiger Thor Pedersen het al elke land in die wêreld besoek en beskryf die wel en wee van sy byna dekade lange reis – insluitend sy gedwonge verblyf van twee jaar in Hong Kong. Hy het te voet, motor, bus, trein en boot gereis, insluitend houerskepe.
'n Mamma wat wonderbaarlik oorleef het om deur weerlig getref te word, het gesê dat sy steeds kon aanvoel wanneer 'n storm kom ná die voorval.
Kayla gesels met Francis du Plessis, een van die spelers van die Cheetahs Senior Vroulike Rugbyspan. Kayla en Francis word vergesel deur Anton Smit, wat die hoofafrigter van die span is.
Ten spyte van die vlug uit Oekraïne toe oorlog uitgebreek het, wen S.Lab toekennings en verseker hoëprofielkliënte vir sy bioafbreekbare alternatief vir polistireen.
Die winter is hier en so ook nog 'n maklik-om-te-maak resep van Sjef Maradine. Hierdie week, by die seisoen, bederf Sjef Maradine ons met 'n beetsop.
'n Australiese maatskappy gaan die idee van 'n buitensporige lewe na 'n ander vlak neem met 'n eksentrieke nuwe produk - toiletpapier gemaak van goud!
Om in 'n huis te woon wat van gebruikte doeke gemaak is, klink dalk nie baie lekker nie, maar dit kan goed wees vir die aarde, volgens 'n studie van 'n Japannese universiteit.
’n Amerikaanse liggaamsbouer Brian Sanchez het £86 000, net meer as 2 miljoen rand, betaal om homself 7 duim langer te maak.
’n Vrou in New York het opslae gemaak deur met ’n virtuele man te “trou” wat heeltemal deur KI bestuur word.
Hein van den Berg, bedryfshoof van DB Pharmaceuticals, het by die Joyride kom inloer om ‘n PSA-siftingstoets met Nico van der Westhuizen te doen. Junie is internasionale mansgesondheidmaand en met statistiek wat wys 1 uit 10 mans sal in hul leeftyd prostaatkanker kry, maar dat naastenby alle mans wat prostaatkanker kry dit sal oorleef indien dit vroeg genoeg opgetel word, is dit belangriker as ooit om seker te maak jy is gesond.
Hierdie week se resep sal perfek wees vir daardie koue winteraande. Hier is sjef Maradine se resep vir kruie- en sitrusbraaihoender.
Een gelukkige wedder wat 14 jaar gelede geglo het dat Josh Tongue eendag vir Engeland sou speel en 'n brutale weddenskap geplaas het, sal 50 000 pond ($63 000) wen wanneer die snelbouler Donderdag sy internasionale buiging teen Ierland maak.
Prince is seen on CCTV footage at his doctor's office a day before his death and his assistant is seen on multiple trips to Walgreens to collect pills in new videos of the star's final hours.
Join The Joyride with Nico van der Westhuizen, Nikki van der Linde, Kayla Barker and JayBee Makhalemele weekdays between 15:00 and 18:00.
Daar is 'n taamlik omstrede kat-inbreker op vrye voet in Kanada wat op kringtelevisie vasgevang is en sy pad by 'n bakkery ingedwing het om dit van bo na onder skoon te maak.
’n Indiese regeringsamptenaar is geskors nadat hy beveel het dat ’n reservoir gedreineer moet word sodat hy sy foon kan vind.
Nico chats to Kirsten Neuschäfer, a South African sailor specializing in high latitude and high adventure sailing. In 2022, she won the 2022 Golden Globe Race, becoming the first woman to win a round the world race by the three great capes, including solo and fully crewed races, non-stop or with stops, and the first South African sailor to win a round-the-world event.
’n IT-werker in die VK wat die afgelope 15 jaar met siekteverlof was, het sy maatskappy gedagvaar omdat hy nie sy salaris verhoog het nie.
'n Tydreisiger het beweer dat hy van die toekoms af teruggekom het nadat hy by sy werk afgedank is - en het bypassende tatoeëermerke met sy jonger self as bewys gewys.
Bekendstelling van die winkel wat baanbrekerswerk is met 'n nuwe soort kleinhandel - een waar goedere nie vir kontant geruil word nie, maar tyd. Positiewe Nuus besoek die Cumbriese dorp waar die idee opstyg.
Soms is die beste pasta in die wêreld niks sonder 'n bietjie sous nie. Hierdie week gee Sjef Maradine vir ons 'n Vodka tamatie pasta sous, wat wonderlik is vir die hele gesin, selfs die kinders kan dit geniet.
Kunsmatige intelligensie het 'n Switserse openbare radiostasie op 27 April oorgeneem. Maar anders as in die Terminator-films, het die KI beheer prysgegee ná die eendag-eksperiment.
’n Vrou in Australië wat ’n verkeerde afdraai op ’n padrit geneem het, moes vir vyf dae in die bos oorleef voordat sy gered is.
'n Stad met die naam Kyle doen 'n beroep op naamgenote van regoor die wêreld om hom te help om 'n rekord te breek ... vir die grootste byeenkoms van Kyles.
Nico recently caught up with Sr Marie McLoughlin, an 83 year old lady, who not only does more than her bit for the community, but also decides to defy the odds along the way. She tells us about her work and why she decided to go sky diving at 83.
Greta Wilson beplan om hierdie Vrydag 3 tot 4 uur rondtes by die Silwermyndam te swem om R20 000 in te samel vir Funda Nenja, 'n saak wat haar na aan die hart lê.
Met Moedersdag om die draai, het Sjef Maradine besluit om vir ons die perfekte ontbytresep vir mamma vir hierdie naweek te gee.
Nico chats to Chaeli Mycroft, a 28-year old young lady, who despite being born with cerebral palsy, has done the most amazing things, including completing the Comrades Marathon and helping others who have the same condition she does.
’n Ryk Australiese gesin is op soek na ’n voltydse oppasser om by hul huis in Sydney aan te sluit... om voltyds vir hul kat te sorg.
This passed weekend, King Charles' coronation had a lot of esteemed guests from all over the world, but one stood out the most. The question is though, was this guest invited or was he/she there for other reasons? You tell us.
’n Span van die Barcelona-dieretuin glo dat die langnekdiere basiese statistieke uitgevind het deur die kans om hul gunsteling-happie te kry, te voorspel.
Plaaslike inwoners van die Middlesex County-dorp glo dat die pastahope van 'n nabygeleë huis gekom het wat te koop gestel is nadat die eienaar ongelukkig gesterf het.
Nadat hulle 'n reeks traumers en ongeluk oorleef het, het hierdie Carlifornia-vrou besluit om glad nie in die steek gelaat te word nie. Sy het opgestaan en die goeie stryd geveg!
Siende dat die winter om die draai is, maak dit net sin dat ons resepte net 'n bietjie verander, reg? Wel, Sjef Maradine dink so, daarom het ons hierdie week 'n lasagne-sopresep.
Nico het die sentrale Suid-Afrikaanse bokser Wiek "Batista" Roets ingehaal. Wiek vertel ons van sy voorbereiding vir sy wedstryd gedurende die naweek en vertel ook wat die WCB vir die bokssport doen.
As jy enige geloof in die sterre plaas, of selfs as jy dit nie doen nie, gaan hierdie naweek blykbaar 'n chaotiese een wees.
Die kunswerk, genaamd Comedian, was deel van die Italiaanse kunstenaar Maurizio Cattelan se uitstalling WE by Seoul se Leeum Museum of Art, en het bestaan uit 'n ryp piesang wat teen 'n muur vasgeplak is.
Twee Kaapse brandbestryders wat die 2023 Totalsports Two Oceans Ultra Marathon gehardloop het terwyl hulle in hul volle uniforms geklee was, het meer as R180 000 vir Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS) ingesamel.
’n Nuwe studie het meer as 140 000 mense in die VK ontleed, wat ’n vraelys ingevul het oor wat hulle in die vorige 24 uur geëet het.
Cattle in Texas have been found without their tongues and other body parts removed with 'precision' cuts but there was no blood left behind at the bizarre scenes.
Mense wonder of ons almal regtig net in 'n simulasie leef nadat ons 'n video gekyk het wat blykbaar wys dat reën op een spesifieke plek val.
As mens sê "straat af", dink jy outomaties, "wel dis naby" en jy gaan selfs so ver as om te besluit om net "straat af" te loop. Af in die straat beteken dalk naby aan baie van ons, maar nie in hierdie dorp, waar almal in dieselfde straat woon nie.
Londen se Euston-stasie het geklink soos iets uit 'n gruwelfliek toe die regering se noodwaarskuwing Sondagmiddag om 15:00 afgegaan het.
H.A. du Plessis het vir ons die mooi verhaal van ’n preekstoel se nuwe lewe op ’n Bosveldplaas gestuur.
Elke stukkie van 'n sappige steak of pragtig geroosterde hoenderstuk verdien om vergesel te word van 'n behoorlik lyk en proe slaai. Hierdie week se resep is net dit! Botterskorsieslaai.
Ian Palmer (71) van Brittanje was byna heeltemal verlam, en het spraakprobleme ontwikkel nadat Guillain-Barrè-sindroom in Junie 2022 by hom gediagnoseer is.
Boris Eldagsen, a German photographer, entered his piece “The Electrician” into an art contest and won first place for his work. However, Boris refused to accept the award after revealing to the world that the photograph was generated by AI
When JHB based photographer, Lance Romeo, received a text one day, he figured he was being pranked somehow. He then later found out that this was no prank at all, instead a client really wanted a refund for a bizarre reason.
Google Bard is Google se antwoord op ChatGPT, maar met ’n verskil. Die kletsbot wil jou lewe makliker maak, van die beplanning van 'n verjaardagpartytjie, die skryf van 'n e-pos tot om vrae oor moeilike onderwerpe te beantwoord.
Verbeel jou jy trek aan soos een van jou gunstelingkarakters uit ’n rolprent, en dan ontmoet jy die regte akteur.
Almal met blou oë, het ’n gemeenskaplike voorouer wat tussen 6 000 en 10 000 jaar gelede geleef het.
’n Britse vrou is hewig ontsteld nadat vandale haar tuin verwoes het, wat sy geskep het om arm mense kos te gee.
Wanneer dit by kos kom, smaak nie alle kombinasies goed nie. Maar wanneer 'n professionele sjef jou van daardie kombinasies gee, moet jy dit probeer. Hier is Sjef Maradine se sjokolade-gedoopde skyfies.
Hierdie 16-jarige dame van die Bethlehem is dalk net die volgende wêreldmusiekster! Ontmoet Anri, 'n ambisieuse jong dame, gereed om die wêreld oor te neem met haar musiektalent.
Die restaurant Serendipity in New York is bekend vir sy luukse disse. En, nou kan jy weer sy beroemde geroosterde kaastoebroodjie bestel.
Dit blyk dat die lieflike kindertelevisieprogram dalk 'n taamlik donker storie agter die skerms gehad het.
Owerhede het ontdek dat 'n wapensituasie waartoe hulle geroep is, eintlik net iemand in 'n fancy kostuum was.
Toe Sandy Hazelip 'n warrelwindreis aan haar jarelange vriendin Ellie Hamby voorgestel het vir hul mylpaalverjaardae, het die 81-jarige die idee aangegryp.
Hierdie week bring Sjef Madarine vir ons nie een nie, maar 2 kerrieresepte wat ook vir jou paasnaweek etenstafel werk, Ingelegde kerrievis en Kerrie sosaties.
’n Samoerai-swaardgeveg het in Brussel uitgebreek toe ’n speletjie Monopoly verkeerd geloop het, volgens berigte. Die straat waar die wedstryd plaasgevind het, is met groot bloedvlekke gelaat nadat die geweld Sondag om 05:00 uitgebreek het.
Nikki gesels met die Suid-Afrikaanse akteur Neels van Jaarsveld oor sy nuutste TV-program "Op reis met my beste vriend". Neels vertel ons meer oor die program en hoekom hy dink kykers sal dit geniet.
There is a very bizarre link between Breaking Bad's Jesse Pinkman and High School Musical's Troy Bolton that has totally gone over many of our heads.
Meer as die helfte van mans (52 persent) wat erken dat hulle hul maats verneuk het, het groter as die gemiddelde neuse, het 'n nuwe peiling aan die lig gebring.
'n Tweeling is gebore uit 30-jarige bevrore embrio's, met hul ma wat net drie jaar ouer as hulle is.
Teen die tyd wanneer die res van die mensdom met die aanbreek van Paasfees hul eerste Paaseier eet, het ‘n Britse man wie se liggaam net sekere kosse kan verteer, reeds meer as 250 Paaseiers weggesit.
Emily Bhatnagar van Maryland in die VSA het haar as kind na boeke gewend as sy eensaam gevoel het, wat dikwels was. "Hulle het my geselskap gehou en my minder eensaam laat voel.”
'n Nuwe meningsopname in Brittanje het bevind dat 64% van die mensdom vloek om pyn te probeer verlig. Neurowetenskaplikes het aan die lig gebring dat dit eintlik voordelig is (al wil jou ma jou mond met seep uitwas).
On the 14th of March, a little boy lost his tooth on the playground of his school. The boy asked his headmaster for help in finding the tooth so he could give it to the tooth fairy. Fast forward 2 weeks, the tooth fairy decided to visit Nkanyi on The Joyride.
You know that "are you a robot" thing you have to solve on some websites to prove that you are not a robot? Well, artificial intelligence, which in essence is a "robot", somehow got it right to trick a human into solving the CAPTCHA on it's behalf.
Het jy al ooit gewonder wat gebeur as jy doodgaan? Nou kan jy uitvind, danksy 'n ongewone virtuele realiteit-simulasie waarmee jy 'n 'naby-dood-ervaring' in die gesig kan staar - hoewel mense wat dit ervaar het, sê dit veroorsaak paniek.
Twee jaar terug was JayBee in 'n ongeluk betrokke wat hom verlam gelaat het. Hy sluit by ons aan op die program om oor hierdie ervaring te praat. Nie net dit nie, maar hy word saam met sy ouers en 'n paar goeie samaretines wat wil seker maak dat hy voluit voortleef.
Jy het dalk nog nie van die Hat Man gehoor nie, maar daar is 'n kans dat hy al een of twee keer in jou drome opgeduik het - 'n spookagtige skadufiguur met 'n donker jas en 'n hoed.
Jonty Pienaar & Madga van Tonder, ouers van die 2-jarige Leah, wat vroeër hierdie maand by 'n venster op die 1ste vloer geval het, gesels met ons oor hul ervaring en die ondersteuning wat hulle van familie en vriende gekry het.
’n Video van ’n waterlose toilet wat menslike ontlasting tot as laat verbrand pleks dat dit weggespoel hoef te word, het die internet in vervoering.
Nico van der Westhuizen gesels met Bernice West oor Virseker Geesfees – ten bate van Solidariteit Helpende Hand.
Hierdie week se resep is, volgens sjef Maradine, “gewaarborg” om wie ook al dit gebruik, te laat trou.
Vrydag, 24 Maart tot Sondag, 26 Maart 2023 is weer die Virseker Geesfees ten bate van Solidariteit Helpende Hand in Potchefstroom. Nico van der Westhuizen gesels met kunstenaar, Appel, oor die projek en wat besoekers kan verwag.
Die verwoestende 9/11-aanvalle op die World Trade Centre in New York het die wêreld in 'n feitlik ontroosbare toestand van skok gelaat.
Most of the time, the conspiracy stories we share with you are about international occurrences, because let's face it, not much "weird" things happen in South Africa. Well at least that's what we thought! Ever heard of Elizabeth Klarer?
Elon Musk het Sondag aangekondig dat hy die poef-emoji as ʼn outomatiese antwoord op alle navrae van die media gestel het.
Die wêreld se eerste robotprokureur ooit – ja, jy het reg gelees – is pas gedagvaar. Wat klink soos die storielyn van 'n wetenskapfiksie-rolprent, is eintlik sowaar besig om te gebeur: ‘n robo-prokureur van New York word deur Edelson, ‘n regsfirma van Chicago, gedagvaar vir “ongemagtigde regspraktyk”.
Net omdat ons die einde van die somer nader, beteken dit nie dat ons nie steeds 'n paar somerhappies kan geniet nie. Vandag gee Sjef Maradines vir ons 'n heerlike en maklik om te maak sjokolade roomys pop resep.
Die befaamde Joe Exotic het aangekondig dat hy homself as president verkiesbaar gaan stel in die volgende Amerikaanse verkiesing - en hy maak nie ‘n grap nie.
Nico van der Westhuizen spoke to Jonathan Butler and Dr Victor ahead of their concert in Kimberley on 19 March 2023.
We've had a lot of weird conspiracies in the past, but none of that have ever been as scary as this one. This is the alleged origin story of the popular children's programme, the Teletubbies.
Neil Armstrong het dalk een klein treetjie vir die mensdom op 20 Julie 1969 geneem. Maar vier jaar vóór Apollo 11, het Barbie reeds 'n volledige ruimtepakkie besit en ruimteverkenning onderneem nog voordat dit ‘n ding was.
'n Britse paartjie wat donker kolle teen ‘n muur in hul huis opgemerk het, het by nadere ondersoek vasgestel dit sowaar heuning is. Nog groter was hul verbasing toe hulle groot stukke heuningkoek en liters heuning onder vloerplanke ontdek het.
Gefrustreerde inwoners van die Britse dorp Swindon wat al vir drie jaar lank teen versperrings vir padwerke vaskyk, het besluit om uit protes ʼn verjaarsdagpartytjie vir die onklaar padwerke te hou.
‘n Restaurant op Stateneiland in New York bedien die lekkerste kos, maar het nie een sjef nie – net oumas wat vir klante dié kos maak wat hulle vir hul kinders voorgesit het, voordat dié die huis verlaat het om hul eie gesinne te begin.
Hierdie week se resep is dalk 'n taamlik ongewone kombinasie. Gebakte druiwe en feta. Probeer dit, miskien pas dit dalk net goed saam met jou volgende medium skaars kruis.
Eloff soek sy perfekte maat met sy nuutste treffer "Swipe Regs". Jong Afrikaanse storievertelling met 'n drywende bas-ritme.
‘n Stad in Italië het die jaarlikse gebruik om mense wat drooggemaak het (gewoonlik ‘n politikus), of bloot irriterend is (ook, meestal politici) as straf in ‘n traliehok te sit en in die rivier te dompel.
Nico chats to energy expert Chris Yelland, an associate consultant for leading financial services and capital markets research group, Intellidex, and energy advisor to OUTA. Nico and Chris focus on the current loadshedding crisis experienced by South Africans, and Chris gives us his predictions on how long RSA has before a "total blackout".
When we think aliens, our first stop would be movies right? So it makes sense that a director such as Steven Spielberg has an opinion about the recent UFO sightings. What came as a surprise though, is what he had to say about these sightings.
‘n Britse man het seker gemaak hy is altyd reg vir die warm dae wanneer hy sy hemp wil uittrek – deur ‘n tatoe van permanente maagspiere (oftewel ‘n six-pack) te kry.
Om op ‘n konkskulp soos ‘n trompet of ‘n fluit te blaas is so ‘n gewilde tydverdryf in die Amerikaanse Key West dat dit vyf dekades gelede tot ‘n jaarlikse kompetisie gelei het.
Nuwe navorsing het bevind dat dolfyne klanke wat laag op die vokale register voorkom, gebruik wanneer hulle jag aangesien die lae klanke hulle help om hul prooi te vind, op te spoor en te vang.
Die naweek van die 24ste Maart is daar iets groot aan die gang in Potchefstroom. Dis weer tyd vir die Virseker Geesfees! Maar dis nie alleen ‘n naweek van groot makietie met van die grootste name in die Afrikaanse musiekbedryf op die verhoog nie, dis ook vir ‘n goeie doel. Nico van der Westhuizen gesels met een van die organiseerders, Elbé Visagie.
Jy lees reg! Vandag het Sjef Maradine 'n sprietuie-en-kaasbroodresep wat redelik goed behoort te pas met 'n heerlike somersop.
Nikki haal die legendariese Suid-Afrikaanse akteur Deon Lotz in. Lotz gee vir ons 'n bietjie insig in sy karakter op Kyknet se nuwe program, Mooiweer en Warm.
'n Persoon geklee as die "Ghostface"-moordenaar van die Scream-franchise het verskeie 911-oproepe in Kalifornië aangespoor, maar die polisie het gesê die persoon is gehuur om die jongste aflewering in die franchise te bevorder.
As deel van ons "Staat van die land"-reeks gesels Nico met parlementslid Werner Horn. Werner gee vir ons sy siening oor Eskom en die huidige beurtkrag. Hy breek ook af wat sekere dinge beteken en hoe hy glo die land uit beurtkrag kan “kom”.
According to the dailystar, Professor Ronald Mallett reckons he might have sussed what could be the biggest discovery of all time, 67 years after he first started looking into it aged 10.
Die vrou wat haar stem aan die oorspronklike Siri verleen het, sê sy het destyds geen idee gehad wat sy eintlik opgeneem het nie. Susan Bennett het destyds, in 2005, nie eens as ‘n stemakteur gewerk nie, maar het klingels vir radioadvertensies gesing.
Andre Botha van SARZA some met Give of the Givers het Turkye besoek om hand by te sit met die reddingsaksie na die onlangse vernietigende aardbewings
Nico haal die Suid-Afrikaanse akteur en musikant Robbie Wessels in. Robbie is een van die kunstenaars wat vanjaar se Bieliemielie Fees, wat in die Oos-Vrystaatse dorp Reitz plaasvind, sal optree.
Ons gewone sterflinge mag dalk geneties die vermoë besit om gif te spoeg. Ja, soos ‘n kobra! Dis nou, as dit nodig was om ons onsself te verdedig en om aandete te vang.
Nico speaks to South African politician Mmusi Maimane. Maimane gives his view on the state of the country, government and what he believes should be done to "fix" the country.
Julia Faustyna a 21-year-old went viral last week after going ‘Live’ on social media, claiming that she is Madeleine. She has spent the last week posting her evidence including seemingly identical birthmarks to the missing British girl as well as her eye Coloboma that appears to match the missing tot’s.
‘n TikToker wat daagliks video’s maak van al die kos wat hy eet, is met ‘n hol kol op sy maag en ‘n hol kol in sy bankrekening gelaat nadat hy ‘n aartappelskyfie geëet het wat volgens die verpakking £100 000 (sowat R2,2 miljoen) werd was.
Hierdie trui help jou om vir toesigkameras onherkenbaar te word. Die duur kledingstuk kos tans vir 'n stewige $420 (ongeveer R7742,66).
'n Man in die VSA was nie beïndruk – om die minste te sê – toe hy sy laaste salaristjek in ‘n vrag oliebedekte pennies betaal is. Laat ‘n mens dink aan daardie gesegde “in eie munt terugbetaal”.
’n Rondloperhondjie van Texas in die VSA wat met vier bene maar slegs drie pote gebore is, kan binnekort ‘n volledige stel pote hê danksy die kreatiewe insette van ’n groep hoërskoolleerlinge.
Hierdie week gee Sjef Maradine vir ons 'n mini-resep, wat nie so mini-glimlaggies sal laat nie!
We speak to Charan Moore, winner of the Original by Motul class in only his second Dakar Rally. Charan tells us more about his journey, from motocross to riding the Dakar.
'n Man was verbaas toe hy 150 mieliestronke onder die vloerplanke van sy 300 jaar-oue huis ontdek het.
A US fighter jet has shot down an unidentified flying object over Alaska and it looks like the powers that be are hiding information about it.
Die Amerikaanse regering het die maatskappy LeoLabs, wat ruimtelike karteerdienste verskaf, gewerf om te help om ‘n verkeerstelsel vir die ruimte te verskaf.
Meeste mense hoop vir sjokolade of blomme op Valentynsdag, maar broccoli? Nee, hou verby! Tensy, natuurlik, broccoli jou gunsteling-gunsteling groente is en iets waaraan jy elke dag aan peusel, soos ene India Atkinson van Belfast in Ierland.
Pakistan is bekend vir sy kleurvolle trekkers, wat eers met verf, klokkies, linte en vere versier word voordat hulle vir boerdery ingespan word.
Moet nooit sê dat Checkers nie patrioties is nie. Die kettingwinkelgroep het onlangs advertensies in koerante in Brittanje en Australië geplaas om expats te herinner aan hul wonderlike geboorteland.
‘n Sesjarige seuntjie van Michigan in die VSA wat sy pa se selfoon geleen het om ‘n speletjie te speel, het op 'n app gekliek en $1 000 (R17 600) se kos by verskillende restaurante bestel.
’n Japannese speler met byna 100 000 intekenare op YouTube se kredietkaart is gekompromitteer nadat sy troeteldier vis dit sonder sy toestemming gebruik het en die veilige data tydens ’n regstreekse stroomgeleentheid aan kykers bekend gemaak het.
Die dodo gaan nie binnekort herleef nie. Ook nie die wollerige mammoet nie. Maar 'n maatskappy wat tegnologie ontwikkel om uitgestorwe spesies te laat herleef lok beleggers, al is wetenskaplikes skepties oor die idee.
Ons almal is verslaaf aan iets, meestal gewone dinge soos videospeletjies speel of gaskoeldrank drink, maar in dié vrou se geval is dié 'iets’ om matrasse te eet.
’n Millimeter-grootte robot gemaak van ’n mengsel van vloeibare metaal en mikroskopiese magnetiese stukke kan rek, beweeg of smelt. Dit kan gebruik word om elektronika reg te maak of voorwerpe uit die liggaam te verwyder.
Ons het almal woorde wat ons wens mense kan ophou gebruik, reg? Wel hierdie ouens het 'n lys van woorde gemaak wat in 2023 verban moet word. Wensdenkery dalk?
'n Plaaslike polisie departement in Rhode Island het 'n ongewone navraag ontvang: 'n DNS-toets op bewyse om die bestaan van Kersvader te bewys.
'n Las Vegas-pizzeria is geseën met 'n seën van besigheid danksy 'n TikToker wat aan die toeneem is.
Vir hierdie week het Sjef Maradine se resep ons verras en geïnspireer gelaat. Al ooit gehoor van maaskaasmossels?
Met elke jaar word nuwe tegnologie uitgevind. Soms help hierdie tegnologie die mensdom, soms is dit net vreemd. Hier is 'n paar nuwe gadgets om na uit te kyk in 2023.
Every movie has it's own conspiracy theory, right? But what if I told you this one reckons that Elvis was in a movie, that was released in 1990!
Ons ken almal die gesegde, "lekker ouens eindig laaste" reg? Wel in hierdie geval blyk dit dat die gesegde nie net in flieks waar is nie, maar ook in die werklike lewe.
Chris Hemsworth se vrou, Elsa Pataky, het hom 'n waardevolle herinnering gegee wat hy vir altyd kan koester!
Ons het baie verskillende, internasionale kompetisies op vreemde wye web gedek, maar ons het nooit ooit gedink ons sou een van hierdie aard teëkom nie!
Rory McCarty, 'n "goeie samaritaan", het hierdie 82-jarige Amerikaanse vlootvateraan gehelp om uiteindelik af te tree.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir was filmed having an accident around his pants during a road commissioning ceremony in December.
Vir die eerste resep van die jaar bring Sjef Maradine vir ons 'n taamlik eienaardige dog heerlike resep!
In 'n poging om die wêreldrekord te breek, het hierdie YouTuber meer as 'n uur in die wêreld se stilste kamer deurgebring. Al wat hy na sy ervaring kon sê, is dat dit vreemd was.
Derek Olson interviews renowned Egyptologist and tour guide Mohamed Ibrahim about he calls "Egypt's Area 51," a mysterious subterranean structure that has been off limits to anyone except the military since the 1960s.
Hierdie twee bofbalspelers lyk nie net identies nie, maar hulle het albei dieselfde loopbaan, hou van dieselfde dinge en speel presies dieselfde posisie vir hul onderskeie spanne. Maar is hulle verwant?
’n Chinese studie het bevind daar is ’n verband tussen die hoeveelheid energie drankies wat mans drink en hul haarverlies.
Om versigtig te wees oor hoe jy jou geld spandeer, is 'n goeie ding. Maar is die eet van katkos om geld te spaar 'n goeie ding of is net 'n persoon goedkoop?
Hierdie pa het gesorg dat sy dogter die beste Kersfees ooit het, al moes sy werk. Hy het homself op 'n Kersaand vlug ingeboek net sodat hy tyd saam met sy dogter kon spandeer – en dit lyk of hy al soveel keer in haar loopbaan gedoen het.
Stel jou voor dat jou binnenshuise potplant vir jou kan sê of dit water, sonlig of dalk meer skadu nodig het, alles deur middel van 'n app!
Een pa se grappie-metode om kinders te laat optree voor Kersdag het populêr op TikTok geword en mense verdeeld gelaat - met sommige kykers wat die voorstel 'wreed' genoem het.
Die wêreld se eerste kunsmatige baarmoeder fasiliteit stel ouers in staat om hul kind se eienskappe te kies!
Nadat sy gesien het hoe plastiek haar gunstelingstrande jaar na jaar besoedel, het Madison Checketts besluit dis tyd om iets daaromtrent te doen. Sy het dus 'n eetbare waterbottel gemaak.
Na al die heerlike kos op die Kersmiddagetetafel het ons die perfekte nagereg nodig om die kersie bo-op te sit! Sjef Maradine gee hierdie week vir ons 'n behoorlike nagereg om vol mae en glimlagte oraloor te waarborg.
'n Bestuurder is deur die polisie voorgekeer en beboet nadat hy opgemerk is waar hy met 'n "Verdagte" passasier ry wat blykbaar 'n lewensgrootte opblaasbare Grinch was.
Legendary soft rock band Smokie will be visiting the country from the 15th - the 17th of December, so we had to catch up with them. Nikki chats to band member Pete, about the band's journey.
More evidence regarding the disappearance of flight MH370 has surface, growing the conspiracies around it even more. Because of what has been found, it is believed that the plane disappearance was not an accident, but rather, might have been planned.
Vrese vir 'n 'zombie-uitbraak' het ontstaan nadat 'n 48 000 jaar oue virus in Russiese ys begrawe gevind is - omdat dit nou besig is om te ontdooi.
'n Broek wat uit 'n gesinkte romp by 'n 1857-skeepswrak aan die kus van Noord-Carolina getrek is, is pas vir $114 000 (R2 miljoen) verkoop.
Selfaangestelde Peter die Eerste, wat in 'n vorige lewe deur Peter Fitzek gegaan het, beweer dat hy die heerser van die "Königreich Deutschland" (Koninkryk van Duitsland) is - wat sy eie geld munt, 'n vlag het en selfs sy eie ID druk. kaarte.
Vandeesweek gee Sjef Maradine ons die hoofster vir ons Kersmiddagete. Skaapboud met bietjie perskeblatjang.
A few weeks back, we had a "Weird Wide Web" story about the coffin confessor, a man who delivers messages for the deceased at their funeral. Nikki somehow found Bill Edgar and had a chat with him.
NOW en The Bat Conservation Trust het kragte saamgesnoer om die VK se kwynende vlermuisbevolking te beskerm.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of "Shallow Waters", Ard Matthews has a chat with Nico. He tells us about his boat, the current state of South African rock music and the 25th anniversary release of "Shallow Waters".
Another crypto founder found mysteriously dead months after another mysteriously drowned!
'n Fransman wat by die werk afgedank is omdat hy te vervelig was, het 'n hofsaak teen syne gewen vir werkgewer.
Die legendariese sangeres het bevestig dat sy 'n geheime liedjie het wat eers uitgereik gaan word wanneer sy sterf.
Elke heerlike bord vleis het 'n behoorlike en heerlike kant nodig. Sjef Maradine gee hierdie week vir ons 'n patatgebak vir ons Kersmiddagetetafel.
Lourens van Niekerk is 'n matrikulant wat op 'n jong ouderdom besluit het om by die stryd teen kanker aan te sluit en bewusmaking oor die siekte te kweek.
Die "Songs of Disappearance" bevat die oproepe van meer as 43 paddaspesies, om bewustheid te verhoog vir die land se dalende paddabevolking. ’n Album van padda-oproepe hoop om Taylor Swift verby te steek en die eerste plek in Australië se musiektrefferlyste te beklee.
Die voormalige NASA- en Apple-ingenieur Mark Rober het besluit om 'n eier uit die ruimte te laat val en dit het op een of ander manier nie gekraak nie!
Diere is geneig om oulik en vreedsaam te wees, verwag hierdie kalkoen in Massachusetts. Die kalkoen genaamd Kevin was die voorloper in terrorisering en die hele omgewing.
Die Britse hengelaar Andy Hackett het die grootste goudvis ooit gevang! Met die bynaam "Die Wortel", weeg die vis amper 30 kg
Sjef Maradine bring hierdie week vir ons maklike melkskommelresepte om te probeer. Hierdie melkskommels is gewaarborg om beide die kinders en die volwassenes hierdie feestyd gelukkig te hou.
Hierdie week se cool kinders bevat 'n jong heer met die blinkste toekoms in gevegskuns, Caiden Carrick.
Daar is adrenalien junkies, dan is daar Linda Potgieter, die 50-jarige wat die rek 23 keer in 'n uur gespring het
One of Central South Africa’s most magical nights of the year has finally arrived – SPAR OFM Carols by Candlelight… Tonight, Potchefstroom will be singing along to Demi Lee Moore, Ruhan du Toit, Elvis Blue and the Mzansi Youth Choir… All for a good cause. To collect toys and other essentials for those children who would otherwise go without this festive season… Now this won’t be possible without the generous support from everyone’s favourite family store, SPAR.
Nico van der Westhuizen spoke to Maxine D’Amico, SPAR Inland Promotions & Advertising Manager.
Huwelik, die einde van jou enkellopende lewe en die amptelike begin van 'n nuwe lewe met die een vir wie jy lief is. Wat as jy hierdie nuwe lewe gevier het deur die dood van die ou lewe te betreur? Hierdie ou het presies dit gedoen!
'n 37-jarige Brasiliaanse vrou, Meirivone Rocha Moraes, sê haar huwelik hang aan 'n draadjie nadat haar man haar familie en vertroue verraai het deur haar met 'n ander vrou te verneuk. Die ding is, sy is met 'n pop getroud.
Het jy al ooit 'n paar tuisgemaakte koekies gehad, maar was jy te lui om dit te bak? Wel, hierdie week het sjef Maradine jou bedek met haar hawermoutkoekies wat nie gebak word nie!
Hierdie week oor cool kinders het ons 'n jong dame al die pad van Bethlehem wat die huidige heersende Mej Tiener Internasionaal is, die eerste Suid-Afrikaner ooit om die gesogte kompetisie te wen.
Hulle sê diamante is vir ewig en Glo Dit of Nie!, daar is 'n dorp in Duitsland wat met hulle gelaai is danksy 'n antieke meteoriet impak! Verbasend genoeg is die gebied wat die diamante bevat nie afgeleë nie, en jy het nie 'n skatkaart nodig om hulle te vind nie, want, wel, hulle is oral! Hou aan om te lees om meer te wete te kom oor hierdie juweel-deursaaide stad.
Diani Gernandt is 'n teater-, film- en televisie-aktrise sowel as 'n gesogte stem oor kunstenaar. Ons gesels met haar oor haar rol in die nuutste Afrikaanse fliek "Mense van die Wind".
May 2, 1972: An Italian newspaper shocked the world when they published an article with a provocative headline: “A machine that photographs the past has finally been invented.” Could this mean that time travel is a real thing?
Die FIFA-wêreldbekersokkertoernooi is om die draai en soos in vorige toernooie is daar ’n dier wat die eindtellings “voorspel”.
’n Man in Australië het ’n vreemde “tweede werk”. Bill Edgar is 'n "kis biegvader". Hy staan die oorledene by om mense te konfronteer wat nie so eg in die lewe was nie.
Wou jy al ooit 'n dorpie besit om wat ook al mee te doen? Wel, daar is 'n dorpie in Spanje wat jy kan besoek vir net minder as 5 miljoen, maar daar is 'n vangplek!
Wou jy al ooit na 'n alternatiewe werklikheid ontsnap? Die nuutste neiging op TikTok stel jou klaarblyklik in staat om jou huidige werklikheid te ontsnap - hier is alles wat jy moet weet oor die verskynsel van verskuiwing.
'n Britse egpaar wat 'n ambulans van eBay af gekoop het, is op soek na die Guinness-wêreldrekord vir die langste reis in 'n ambulans - en hulle het reeds nie-amptelik daarin geslaag.
Although discoveries are made every year, little is truly known about dinosaurs. These pre-historic marvels have left many with a lot of questions with the latest one being, did the t-rex actually have wings?
Met die bekendstelling van virtuele realiteit het spel beter en 'n bietjie meer realisties geword. Maar een tegnologieskepper neem dit dalk 'n bietjie te ver.
Die TikTok-rekening Sunday Nobody, het die video geplaas wat dadelik virale geword het. En met goeie rede. Die selfverklaarde 'meme art'-rekening het 'n sak Cheetos geneem en dit letterlik in 'n sarkofaag begrawe.
Twee reuse silwer bolle het op een of ander manier hul vertoonpodium afgebreek en in die strate van Londen afgerol.
'n Man wat 'n jaar lank video's geplaas het van homself wat dood speel, het sy droomrol gewen - as 'n kadawer in 'n groot Amerikaanse TV-produksie.
Hierdie week, het Sjef Maradine besluit om alles vir ons te doen. Sy gee vir ons 'n hele gesinsfeesresep wat almal tevrede sal laat.
Erin Salo from Kimberely has been chosen and invited to be part of the USA Academic Tour, a tour which recognizes learners who have been excelling in their academics.
Michael Townsend het vir vier jaar in 'n geheime woonstel in die middel van 'n winkelsentrum gewoon voordat hy uiteindelik deur sekuriteit uitgeskop is.
She came to visit us last week as a finalist and this week, she comes back as a winner!
Nikolai Mushegian was found dead in the ocean of Puerto Rico on Friday after tweeting that he was being set up by the CIA and Mossad. Mushegian was a long-time crypto developer and the co-founder of Balancer Labs a cryptocurrency investment portfolio company.
Enrico Springfield, 'n kapper van Johannesburg het 'n nuwe wêreldrekord opgestel! Jip, 'n kapper het 'n wêreldrekord opgestel!
Stel jou voor dat jy die dood vir 40 bedrieg, nie as gevolg van jou intelligensie nie, maar as gevolg van waar jy woon.
Om beroof te word is glad nie wonderlik nie, veral as dit wat by jou gesteel is van groot waarde is of 'n paar belangrike dokumente op het. Maar wat as die persoon wat van jou gesteel het, kontak gemaak het en om verskoning gevra het?
Amou Haji het 67 jaar lank geweier om seep en water te gebruik omdat hy bang was dat dit hom siek sou maak. Die dag toe hy uiteindelik onder druk geswig het, is hy ongelukkig oorlede.
Hierdie week hou sjef Maradine dit so eenvoudig as wat kan wees met 'n oulike maar goue, klassieke resep, pap en wors.
Lucy is a 16-year-old talent young lady, with a huge interest in the performing arts. She catches up with Nico and tells us about her dreams and ambitions.
Om in 'n hotel te slaap is 'n luukse wat die meeste van ons wens ons kon bekostig. Dit is bedoel om baie gemaklik en fancy te wees. Maar sê nou die hotel waarin jy slaap, het nie eers mure nie?
Legendry South African musician PJ Powers was in the neighborhood and decided to pop in for a chat with Nico. They chat about her career, her civil work in making South Africa better and her latest music.
Yep! It's another UFO story. A commercial pilot has grabbed footage of and shared what he believes to be a UFO. Is it real? Well just for yourself.
Stel jou 'n wêreld voor sonder internet. Geen Whatsapp, Facebook, YouTube en erger nog, geen aanlyn speletjies nie! Wel, volgens wetenskaplikes kan dit in die volgende dekade gebeur.
Op 'n taamlik pynlike en onnodige manier het hierdie vrou geleer om nie te vlieg na plastiese chirurgie nie.
We opened our black book of celebrity numbers and bumped into a number we've had but never used, so we decided to use it! Nico chats to Mike Kroeger & Ryan Peake, members of legendary rock band Nickelback.
'n Vrou het verduidelik hoe dokters glo dat sy dalk 'haar tweeling in die baarmoeder geabsorbeer het' nadat sy met twee naeltjies gebore is.
Noem alle legkaartgenieë: daar is 'n nuwe wiskunde-legkaart in die dorp wat duisende mense stomgeslaan het.
Op soek na die perfekte somerproefskrif om die hele gesin af te koel? Wel, vandag gee Sjef Maradine vir ons 'n maklik-om-te-maak, geen churn roomys.
Nico chats to 11-year-old, South African born actor Caleb Payne, who recently won big at the Youth Oscars. Payne walked away with Feature Film Leading Youth Artist Award for Good Life on the 2nd of October.
Daar is kompetisies vir baie dinge, maar hierdie een moet die grillerigste een wees wat ons nog ooit teëgekom het.
Met Oktober as bewusmakingsmaand vir borskanker, het Nikki 'n geselsie gehad met Babbette Labuschagne, wat in 2020 met borskanker gediagnoseer is. Babbette het sedertdien besluit om 'n stem te wees wat meer aandag aan borskanker help bring.
Ja, ons is weer terug met nog 'n sameswering wat sekerlik nog 'n Disney-fliek sal verwoes. Alhoewel Disney dit nog nooit bevestig het nie, glo baie aanhangers dat Moana in die seestorm gesterf het en die res van die fliek speel in die hiernamaals af.
As jy kontaklense kry, een van die eerste en belangrikste reëls wat hulle jou gee is, om dit uit te haal wanneer jy slaap. As jy dit nie doen nie, sal die lense iewers onder jou ooglede beweeg en daar vassit. Hierdie vrou het glad nie gelusiter nie.
'n Man van Utah wat viraal geword het omdat hy 'n advertensiebord in die Salt Lake City-area verhuur het om "WEEZER" te lees, het vier maande later 'n advertensiebord-reaksie van die groep ontvang.
'n Bakkery in San Francisco het sy liefde vir Star Wars na die volgende vlak geneem. One House Bakery het weke lank 'n lewensgrootte "The Empire Strikes Back"-beeldhouwerk gevorm, gebak en saamgest.
A woman was stunned as people on social media showed her a very well-known face, starring back at her, in a picture she took and posted. The face popped out in the midst of a burning fire in her fireplace.
Mr Doodle has turned heads in the art world again, this time by transforming his mansion into a big piece of doodle art.
Scientists have found that the brains of new fathers shrink slightly when their babies are born. Scientists have found that the alterations happen to the organ when a child is welcomed and areas that help males care for their new-borns develop.
A Calgary, Alberta, animal health technology company, Sylvester.ai, has developed an app called Tably that uses the phone's camera to tell whether a feline is feeling pain.
Still keeping with the summer theme, Chef Maradine decided that this week, we needed some Asian inspiration for our dinner tables
There's a game you might or might not know about that was deemed so dangerous that it never existed!
The war between the Ukraine & Russia keeps intensifying and as this happens, more and more mysteries keep surfacing. One would think the mysteries would be around the war itself, but it's actually all on Russia.
When you hear about a plane crash, the last thing you expect to hear is that a surfer, who was not even in the plane, caused the crash. Well, here's the last thing you expected to hear.
Did you know, drinking a cup coffee on a daily basis could actually be good for your health? Yep! have enough coffee on a daily basis has a lot of health benefits.
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Artist Jim Bachor found a really creative way of fixing the road and adding to the world of art.
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Nico chats to South African film & television director Ian Gabriel. Ian is also the director of the first Afrikaans series on Netflix, Ludik.
A book reinterpreting the poems of 16th Century French astrologer Nostradamus is flying off the shelves after it appeared to correctly predict the Queen's death.
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After months walking into her bathroom and feeling like she was in a horror film, this US woman has finally found out what has been causing this "bleeding".
When sleep evades you, one could advice you to "count sheep". The saying seems to have been turned into reality. Sleep-deprived Brits can now try falling asleep by counting sheep in real life.
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When you think of something becoming more expensive with time, you would automatically think wine or whiskey. But what if we told you there is a tin of chocolates, made in 1899 that just sold for R9960?
An internet rumor has it that there might be another royal that no one knew about, born of royal blood, but not from a royal mother.
In response to viral videos of people filming themselves sauteing chicken in a pan with the over-the-counter cold medicine, the FDA issued a statement calling the practice not just gross, but also dangerous.
Animals always bring some color into our lives, especially if they are our pets. Now imagine how much color would be added to your life if your pet was Midas, the four eared cat!
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Burgers are always a quick and easy meal to make, might be a bit messy, but definitely guaranteed to leave a smile on a couple of faces.
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A letter from Queen Elizabeth II sits behind enclosed glass locked in a vault at the Queen Victoria Building in the center of Sydney, Australia and it cannot be opened until 2085.
Images of what seems to be a dragon's skull have been widely shared on the internet. Could this be real or just another hoax to get people talking?
Drive-thrus are an easy and convenient way to get your favorite food faster than having to sit down in the restaurant. But what happens when you don't have a car, but a different mode of transportation? Well, this didn't stop a man in the UK.
There is a man with a TikTok account under the name Minerals_Rock who has got the internet all riled because he is growing Bismuth Crystals at home using music.
Rabbit Island is located on the small island Ōkunoshima in the Seto Inland Sea in eastern Hiroshima. Instead of Ōkunoshima, the island is often called Usagi Shima (Rabbit Island in English).
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Certain creatures in history are written off as stuff of folklore and myths right? But what if we told you that it seems in Poland, some of these creatures were more reality than folklore?
The internet can be an amazing place! We found an advertisement on the web, where two ladies are looking for dates to a wedding in November. So we decided to help them out.
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You probably remember them, little digital pets that we all wanted back in high school. Having to feed them, play with them and put them to bed. If you thought Tamagotchi, then you are absolutely right!
Hamilton Palace in Kent is one of the biggest mansions in the country, eclipsing even Buckingham Palace in its size. Yet nobody appears to live there, and the palace still remains unfinished despite construction having started nearly 40 years ago.
A member of the San Diego Zoo's African penguin colony has been fitted with orthopedic footwear to help it deal with a degenerative foot condition. Yep, a penguin that wears boots.
Staring at your phone for too long could speed up the aging process.
A new academic study has suggested that blue light from the devices may give users wrinkles.
Experts at Oregon State University discovered that when fruit flies are put under the glaring light for 14 days they showed signs of impaired cell function and aging.
Dr. Jadwiga Giebultowicz, the biologist who led the research, warned that blue light exposure could be having a "detrimental effect on a wide range of cells in our body".
She said: "Our study suggests that avoidance of excessive blue light exposure may be a good anti-aging strategy."
Previous research has revealed that too much screen time raises the risk of obesity and mental health problems while there are also concerns that blue light strains the eyes and makes it harder for people to sleep.
Several devices have in-built mechanisms that allow users to reduce the blue light they emit.
Chef Maradine Whitehorn takes us on a terrific truffle journey. Easy and delicious!
Basic truffle ingredients
220g semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate (high quality, 62% cacao or higher), finely chopped
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Optional base flavorings:
Mint leaves (1 bunch, stems removed, chopped, about 1 cup)
Cinnamon and cardamom (1 cinnamon stick, 2 cardamom pods)
Amaretto (1 to 2 tablespoons)
Almond extract (1 teaspoon)
Truffle coatings
Unsweetened cocoa powder
Finely chopped walnuts
Finely chopped almonds
Method
Heat the cream to a simmer:
In a small, heavy saucepan, bring the heavy whipping cream to a simmer (stir and scrape down the sides with a spatula every few minutes).
If you are using a liquid flavorings, stir it in with the cream (and ignore the vanilla in the next step).
If adding mint or other solids for flavor, remove the cream from heat, add the flavor solids, and let steep for an hour. Then strain away the solids, and return the cream to a simmer. Proceed with the recipe.
Make the chocolate base (ganache):
Place the chocolate in a separate bowl. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate. Add the vanilla (if not using a different flavoring in previous step), and allow to stand for a few minutes. Then, stir until smooth. (This chocolate base is called ganache.)
Cool to room temperature, then refrigerate:
Allow the ganache to cool to room temperature. Then, place in the refrigerator for two hours.
Roll into balls and chill overnight:
Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper. Use a teaspoon to scoop out balls of the ganache. Roll in your hands quickly (as it will melt from the heat of your hands) and place on the prepared baking sheet. Place in the refrigerator overnight.
Roll in cocoa powder or your choice of coating:
Roll in cocoa powder or chopped nuts and serve.
If not serving right away, keep the coated truffles covered in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. For the best flavor and texture, let truffles reach room temperature before serving.
A politician has lured thousands of people to a farmstead with threats of the end of the world. Apparently he was told so, by the black hole nestled in his spinal cord.
According to an article in the Dailystar thousands have made a pilgrimage to a farmhouse in rural Cambodia to wait out the end of days after a politician warned that the only place to survive an impending world-destroying flood would be his home.
This comes after politician-turned-cult leader Khem Veasna took to his Facebook page to share a series of apocalyptic predictions, spurred on by the apparent musings of a "black hole" that he said was growing on his spine.
"I can’t sleep because whenever I sleep, my spinal cord is pulling so hard, because the world is breaking down, and the water is flowing into the gap," he said.
He added that the black hole had sent him messages that a flood of biblical proportions was set to eradicate the entire planet and urged his devoted fans to join him on his farm, the only place on the planet set to survive the washout, Vice World News reported.
People from across the country answered the call - authorities believe between 15000 and 20000 people congregated at Veasna's farmhouse in a sleepy part of Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, with some travelling from as far as South Korea to avoid meeting an apocalyptic end.
Some tourists in the UK claim to have witnessed a huge beast while enjoying their holiday in Norfolk. Some of these tourists believe that the huge beast they saw, was big foot.
A 28-year-old woman in the United States, who describes herself as being "allergic to gravity", has revealed that she spends 23 hours in bed, faints up to 10 times a day and can't stand for more than three minutes without passing out.
It is quite normal to have an emotional support animal. The name says it all, one of the purposes of these animals is to support you emotionally through anything you might be going through. But have you ever met an emotional support alligator?
A brutal summer has caused havoc for many in rural Spain, but one unexpected side-effect of the country's worst drought in decades has delighted archaeologists - the emergence of a prehistoric stone circle in a dam whose waterline has receded.
The winner of a lying down competition has bragged of his lack of preparation by saying he "didn't even warm up" after claiming the title.
This week, Chef Maradine takes us on a quick trip to Italy. Today we make a classic Italian bruschetta.
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Like clockwork, every year, we seem to get new theories about the moon landing being fake. And every year, there is new "evidence" that supports the fake narrative. A conspiracy theorist has emerged, claiming new evidence on the fake moon landing.
A University in Texas will soon be offering a writing course that will teach student how to write songs like Taylor Swift. Yep, a Taylor Swift song writing course.
Cutting corners tends to be very tempting, especially when you are in high school, writing an exam you didn’t really study for. As tempting as it may be, it doesn’t make it right and this teacher made sure his students learn this.
In 1989, Janet Jackson released a video for her song Rhythm Nation. The video won a number of accolades, including a Grammy. But the video also somehow made any laptop crash whenever it played on it.
A monkey has caused a massive amount of confusion at a California zoo after police rocked up to respond to a 911 emergency call.
For those indoors, lazy movie nights, we don't really want to cook. This week, Chef Maradine gives us the perfect recipe for the perfect tv snack, Nachos
Nico chats to Springbok Women Rugby player and winner of the Leopard's Women's Rugby player of the year for the 2021 season Jakkie Cilliers.
The medical field has come a long way. These days a pill can help you with your headache. But there was a time pills didn't exist at all. These were truly dark times for patients.
One of Baba Vanga's predictions for 2022 just came true – and here's hoping that's the last one. The late Bulgarian mystic was known for her uncanny ability to predict future events.
A man with engineering know-how has invented a robot suit that gives snakes the ability to "walk with legs".
A furious woman has taken the ultimate revenge on her unfaithful partner by airing their dirty laundry in a full-page advert in an Australian newspaper.
Depending on how old you are, you will remember the days of renting movies on VHS or DVD. You'll also remember the anti-piracy message at the beginning of the movies. What if we told you, that message actually backfired?
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This week, Chef Maradine looks at the sweet side of things. Ever tried making some tiramisu? Well, here's your chance.
Usually, when one mentions taste, we automatically think some for of object one can see and put into your mouth to taste. But what if we told you this guy can taste words?
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Fancy Feast, the company famous for making gourmet cat food, has decided to open a cat food inspired restaurant for humans in New York.
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Let's be honest, not a lot of us read through the entire T's & C's page of any app we download. We really just want to start using the app. But what if you accepting the T's & C's is really opening up yourself to some trouble?
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There's really not much to say about this. We would rather have you quick visit itanimulli.com, then come back and read the rest of this article.
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From runway to bin day, Balenciaga has the shoe for you. The luxury label has just unveiled its new limited edition 'distressed' kicks, and they look oddly like those manky old Converse you drew on with permanent markers back in high school
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In late April of 2022, the world of breakfast foods got rocked by the announcement of a new cereal by Tropicana, engineered to be eaten with orange juice, not milk.
Akihiko Kondo's marriage to hologram Hatsune Miku has seemingly come to an end after a software update turned her into an error message.
Elliott Tanner will graduate from the University of Minnesota this month with a major in physics and a minor in maths and is planning to get his doctorate next.
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An undisclosed private art collector in Europe recently made more than $1 million go “Poof!” by purchasing a receipt for invisible artwork at auction.
A Great-Grandma has become the proud owner of the world’s oldest Easter egg that’s remained unopened for 62 years.
Elon Musk – the richest man on the planet – claims he doesn’t actually own a house and spends most of his time skipping between the various spare rooms of friends.
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Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Harbin Institute of Technology published a study on March 25 in Advanced Functional Materials, revealing the creation of a magnetic slime that could potentially be inserted into the human digestive system to fish out foreign objects.
The stairs to the Temple of Hathor are a complete mystery to archeology. Built-in pure granite, one of the hardest materials, the stairs have somehow melted.
Interestingly, listening to rock music can have a calming effect and even lower blood pressure, and listening to fast-paced music proved to be a major factor in speeding up operations.
During the late-17th to mid-20th centuries, unwed women in England and America did not swipe right to find a husband. Instead, they baked special “dumb cakes” and followed a stringent ritual that was supposed to give them information about their future spouses.
Not something you normally read about a plane. A car definitely, but a plane? Well, it has happened, a plane in Costa Rica performed a hand-break turn!
I visit the world's first official UFO Landing Pad. How many UFOs did I see? Watch to the end. The world's first official UFO landing pad was built in the small Canadian prairie town of St Paul, in Alberta, Canada, and was formally opened on 3 June 1967 by the Hon. Paul Hellyer, Canada's then Minister of National Defence.
Kuruman is a town with just over 18,000 people in the Northern Cape province. The town is known for its scenic beauty and the Eye of Kuruman, a geological feature that brings water from deep underground.
The abundance of water produces an unexpected swathe of green amidst the barren plains and the town is also known as the Oasis of the Kalahari.
It was at first a mission station of the London Missionary Society founded by Robert Moffat in 1821. It was also the place where David Livingstone arrived for his first position as a missionary in 1841. The Kuruman River, which is dry except for flash floods after heavy rain, is named after the town.
16-year-old Kimberley beauty Theanè Willemse walked off with the title of Miss Teen Universe South Africa 2022. She will be representing South Africa in the Miss Teen Universe pageant to be hosted in November in Florida, USA.
A young model, and keen dancer, Theane is excited to represent her country and also has big dreams for her future ahead.
In the late ’90s, a weirdly wonderful robotic creature took the world by storm. A mashup of an owl and hamster, the Furby responded to physical touch with coos, gibberish, and expressive facial gestures. Over 40 million Furbies were sold in just three years after its initial production, spurring a Beanie Baby–esque global craze.
But beneath the Furby fervor lurked some well-founded fear. While both children and adults alike were falling head-over-heels for Furbies, others were leery about a lifelike toy that you could never switch off. This spurred many Furby-related conspiracies, including that the robo-pet was teaching kids bad words, interfering with flight equipment, and was even an international spy.
So, are Furbies harmless friends or spying foes?
THE SECRET LIFE OF FURBY SPIES
One of the most widespread Furby conspiracies was that the creature was actually an international spy. In 1999, the National Security Agency (NSA) banned the polyester chatterboxes from offices because it believed Furbies could repeat or record conversations about sensitive information. The NSA even circulated its own internal memo, reminding staff that recording devices of any kind were strictly prohibited: “This includes toys, such as ‘Furbies,’ with built-in recorders that repeat the audio with synthesized sound to mimic the original signal.”
The panic got so bad that Roger Shiffman, owner of Furby-manufacturer, Tiger Electronics, issued a statement saying, “Although Furby is a clever toy, it does not record or mimic voices. The NSA did not do their homework. Furby is not a spy!”
One reason people believed this particular narrative was that the Gremlin-like toys “learned” their human companion’s dialect. And we use the term “learn” very loosely. Furbies came pre-programmed with 700 to 800 words. While they only spoke their native language (Furbish) straight out of the box, more interactions would unlock more real words.
In actuality, Furbies couldn’t learn or re
On today's episode, which is the last one of the series, Jen takes a look at a number of things we should consider as adults.
It looks like the royals might have a couple more speculated scandals hidden in their past. Simon Dorante-Day has been trying to prove his unfounded theory for over 20 years, and his latest bid has got fans agreeing with his 'obvious' resemblance to the Queen
British company Genus is launching a genetic test to identify the least flatulent cows in a bid to save the environment.
A Texas drone business teamed up with an online content creator to create a giant QR code over Dallas to "Rickroll" the entire city.
Lab-grown ‘lion meat’ could be set to go on sale in the UK, as well as a whole menagerie of other exotic meats that haven’t actually come from animals.
DESPITE THEIR ANCESTORS BEING HUNTED TO NEAR-EXTINCTION, BEAVERS HAVE MADE A COMEBACK AS THE KEY TO THE CITY’S PLAN TO MITIGATE THE FLOODING.
It’s been 400 years since beavers were hunted out of London, but with waters on the rise due to climate change, it’s their time to shine once more — beginning with the reintroduction of Sigourney and Justin Beaver.
DAM-MED IF THEY DON’T
March 17 marked the return of the beaver at Enfield’s Forty Hall Farm, two years after Enfield Council and London Climate Change Partnership nailed down a plan to help alleviate major flash flooding that has pained the city in recent years.
Though generally known as a rainy city, London’s downpours have gone from gloomy to grim, with LCCP’s deputy chair Bob Ward expressing concern that the city’s flood risk has turned life-threatening.
According to a July 2021 report, the city experienced more than the total month’s average rain on several individual days. Along with flooding more than 1,000 homes, the influx of water forced hospital and train station closures.
“There is now a real risk of people drowning, particularly in basement flats if a major flash flood occurred in the middle of the night,” Ward told the Observer.
FROM HUNTED TO HEROES
Despite their ancestors being hunted to near-extinction for their coats and musk during the days of Billy Shakespeare, two chosen beavers — a male from a similar project in Yorkshire and a wild Scottish female, temporarily named Justin Beaver and Sigourney Beaver — have made a comeback as the key to the city’s plan to mitigate the flooding.
We’re not sure how Hailey will feel about this, but the Council hopes Sigourney and Justin will immediately get to work making beaver babies who can help them build an empire of dams, chomp down trees, and bring some new wildlife neighbours to the area.
If all goes as planned, these new habitats will ultimately slow down and filter the wetland waters, reducing flooding downstream.
THE SECR
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Social media sensation the 'Russian Popeye' has received comments from concerned fans urging him to seek medical help for his massively bloated oil-pumped arms
Many TikTok users cannot believe Kirill Tereshin is still sporting bulging muscles in his arms after he was forced to undergo life-saving surgery on them. They are now urging him to seek urgent medical help before something terrible happens.
Kirill has become a social media sensation thanks to a series of bizarre clips and sketches in which he is either flexing his giant biceps or showing off designer clothing. The 25-year-old was forced to have his enhanced triceps surgically removed but his bulging tree trunk arms look dangerously out of place on his slender frame.
If the colourful ink between his ballooned upper arms is anything to go by, Kirill, who goes by the moniker of Ruki Bazuki, clearly has an interest in the extra-terrestrial.
It says something about the lad that an alien tattoo in the middle of his chest surrounded by a spaceship and planets, is not the most eye-catching thing about him.
Rather than dedicate his life to lifting weights in the gym, in 2017 Kirill from Pyatigorsk, southern Russia decided to get big arms with permanent synthol oil injections.
Aside from looking absolutely bonkers, synthol can damage muscle tissue and endanger cardiovascular health which has led to Kirill's TikTok followers expressing their concern for his life.
One person commented on a recent video: "Popeye the sailor man... On a serious note they really are gonna pop."
A second said: "Go to the do doctor b4 its too late."
"Go to the hospital," a third wrote.
Synthol itself is made up of 85% medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) oil, 7.5% lidocaine, and 7.5% alcohol, according to Healthline.
Lidocaine is designed to reduce pain and the alcohol helps sterilise the mixture and reduce the risk of bacterial infection. MCTs are typically found in coconut and palm oils. The self-proclaimed bazook
Doctors at a New York hospital said a man who came in complaining of difficulty breathing through his right nostril was found to have a tooth growing in his nasal cavity.
This week, Aaron makes a stop in the diamond capital of South Africa. Kimberley is the capital city of South Africa’s Northern Cape Province. It’s known for its 19th-century diamond mines, like the deep, hand-dug Big Hole.
Huge rats that are capable of treading water could be attempting to sneak their way up your water pipes and into your home, according to a pest control expert.
We chat to author Jen Thorpe. She tells us more about her new book, "Adulting 101" and also gives us tips on how to "adult" like we should.
Clips of an elderly man went viral on TikTok this week, with claims of him being 163 years-old leaving users shocked. The frail man, a monk, was speculated to be practising self-mummification
Switzerland has a reputation for crafting exceptionally accurate clocks and the world’s finest watches. Think TAG Heuer, Piaget, and Rolex. So, when you hear the expression “doing Swiss time,” you’re likely thinking about cogs and cuckoos — not prisons.
A 500-pound black bear nicknamed Hank the Tank is causing alarm in a town near California's Lake Tahoe where the massive bruin has been blamed for breaking into dozens of properties.
Ever had questions that no one could answer? Well here's your chance to get closer to an answer, we hope. This week, we ask a pretty simple question, do stairs go up or do they go down?
A woman has called out her mother for an expensive family tradition. In a post on Reddit, the 25-year-old woman explained that her mum demands "lavish gifts" on her kids' birthday as a thank you for giving birth.
A mum obsessed with mythical creatures has changed her name to Marie Unicorn Sparkles and decided on the switch while watching Marie Kondo's hit Netflix show.
This week, Aaron's town of the week is the small maize town of Reitz in the eastern Free State town.
After a group of New Hampshire students built a roughly six-foot-long miniature boat and filled it with gifts in late 2020, they set it out in the Atlantic Ocean, hoping it would eventually wash ashore and be opened by someone across the globe.
A mass of fireballs streaked across Puerto Rico’s skies in early February 2022 in a dramatic and otherworldly display. Was it America’s second Roswell? Or perhaps the planetary invasion tinfoil-hat wearers have predicted for the last two decades? Nope!
Irishman Man Brings Corpse of Dead Uncle Hoping to Collect His Pension. Yep, like in the movie "Weekend at Bernie's", this man thought this would be a brilliant idea.
Frustrated zookeepers have booked a Marvin Gaye impersonator to help get their love-shy monkeys to 'get it on'.
When last did you have some tasty home made cupcakes? Well today, Chef Maradine gives us a quick chocolate and cappuccino frosting cupcake recipe that you can try for you & your Valentine this coming valentine's day.
Aaron took a short left and off-ramped into the small farming northern Free State town of Heilbron.
A pair of Ohio radio DJs broke a Guinness World Record when they conducted a 25-hour, 35-minute interview on the air.
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Owner Lisa Kite, 58, began teaching her nine-year-old dog, Ivy, how to paint when she was just aged two.
After noticing how quickly she picked it up, Lisa started trying her out with different types of paint, starting with watercolours before moving on to acrylics.
Lisa, from North Carolina, US, said: “It didn’t take long to teach her how to paint; she was painting within a week. “Initially, I trained her to get a beer from the fridge to impress my adult children when they came to visit and from there, I taught her lots of different tricks.
“She’ll do the basic commands like sit, roll over and shake but she’s learned how to sort the washing, take my jacket off, wipe her feet, and put coins in the bank.
“We have a two-page spreadsheet of different tricks now.” The Australian shepherd’s paintings have a range of names, from ‘Meringue’ to ‘Jungle Cat’, and prices vary, with her most expensive work of art selling for £360.
Lisa added: “I’ve given so many paintings away, but we sell them all over the world; I’m blown away by how many people want one of her paintings.”
Despite not being an artist herself, Lisa loves seeing the art her pup creates and sets Monday as their day of the week to paint, with Ivy having five paintings on the go at once.
Lisa donates the profits from Ivy’s artwork to local charities and food banks in their area. She said: “This is fun for Ivy; she is trained using positive reinforcement and is putting good into the world. “I’m not an artist but I love art and have learned a lot from Ivy.
“She only adds one colour to each painting per week to make sure we’re not diluting the colours. “As long as she’s busy, she’s happy and we make sure to walk her five miles a day on top of that.
“We give the profits away to charity; it’s usually animal welfare charities but also food banks. “I love the idea that there is a dog working to help other dogs and pets in the world.”
If you are imagining girls in their pyjamas, then you will be sadly disappointed to know that this is far more serious. Who are participating then? EVERYONE!
Men, women and even kids partake in this new sport whose moto seems to be: “PFC, It’s a thing”. Inspiring, isn’t it.
“The fighters don’t like to get hurt, and there’s a lot of people who don’t want to see the blood. They want to see good competition; they just don’t want to see the violence.” – Steve Williams, CEO
Pillow Fight Championship began with an idea to develop a real fighting sport that would appeal to the international family audience by combining the ancient weapon known as a “pillow” with experienced MMA competitors & boxers and strict rules. However, PFC isn’t just about hard-hitting pillow fighting, it’s also about pure entertainment and fun!
PFC has quickly evolved into a very popular sport-based showcase complete with all the strength, stamina, and strategic skills of the other more brutal combat sports but with a massive amount of fun!
PFC is all the thrill of a hand-to-hand combat fight without any blood and a lot more action!
A furious woman discovered that her neighbor had stolen her parcel after spotting the brazen thief wearing the exact outfit she had ordered.
Animal rescuers in Britain said it was "amazing" that a gecko survived a 4,800-mile, three-month journey from China to England in a box of musical instruments.
Have you ever thought to record and play back your dreams like a movie? Certainly, your answer will be” No “. But now recording your dreams is not a dream anymore.
Paranormal activity investigator, Matt Tillett claims to have a possessed doll. Annie is a real-life Chucky doll which Matt claims has to be kept under 24-hour surveillance because of how much of a threat it poses.
A man has started a very bizarre 'experiment' to see how long he can survive while eating only raw meat.
Toyota is planning to explore the moon’s surface using a new vehicle called the Lunar Cruiser. The company is working alongside Japan’s space agency on the vehicle, which is set to launch later this decade.
For the first time this year, Liezl is here to give us some nutritional tips. Today she focuses on how to actually go about deciding on that new year's losing weight resolution.
A 73-year-old woman from Long Island got some satisfying justice on a guy who was trying to rip her off.
During the Great Depression, a hippopotamus in South Africa decided she wanted to see more than her microcosmic watering hole. She began what would become a two-and-a-half-year journey of over 1,000 miles. Her trip became so popular that sightings of her made headlines around the world
This week, Chef Maradine shares some tips on how to make your next steak dish a bliss! Ever thought of adding a cauliflower mash?
This week, Aaron jumped off the N1 and onto the R59, straight into the beautiful town of Parys.
Russia is not known for being friends with the world. In fact, they often like to showcase how they can be better than the rest of the world.
Image of a mysterious cylindrical object has been spotted by an astronomer while he was collecting data about M42 Orion nebula.
Cape Town residents and tourists flock to Oudekraal in search of the Antipolis shipwreck, which now lies nestled between the rocks near the Twelve Apostles Hotel.
Two Los Angeles police officers who lost their jobs because they were out catching Pokémon instead of robbers have failed to overturn the city's decision to fire them at a California court of appeals.
A mum who lost part of her tongue after a battle with cancer has had a new one made out of part of her leg - only for it to start growing hair.
As Tonga comes back online following the eruption of its massive Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano on Saturday, we're learning more about the toll it took on the environment and its people.
This week, Aaron took a turn onto the R70 and stopped in the small farming town of Rosendal.
Missourians received an "Emergency Alert" on their phones Tuesday that made references to the superhero Batman after authorities say a test alert was inadvertently deployed statewide.
The evidence of advanced surgery is 2,000 years old. This skull, which has been ‘held together with metal’, is a long and elongated specimen.
A mysterious sound emerged from underground has given residents sleepless nights and left them terrified for weeks.
Zane Wedding initially suspected that he had water trapped in his ear after going swimming but decided to consult a specialist when the wriggling sensation continued.
A couple from Tamil Nadu is all set to host their wedding reception in Metaverse. Yep! The wedding reception will be entirely virtual.
Similar to one you'll find on an airplane, our planet will be getting its own black box to record events to the downfall of civilization.
For the first time in 2022, our in house chef, Chef Maradine is back! We kick off the year with a healthy pizza recipe.
Alfredo Antonio Trujillo was born at 11.45pm on New Year’s Eve at Natividad Medical Center in Monterey County, California before twin sister Aylin Yolanda Trujillo arrived as the clock struck midnight - meaning that she was born on New Year's Day
A video claiming to show a triangle-shaped UFO flying next to the International Space Station (ISS) has caused a frenzy on YouTube with conspiracy theorists asking NASA to "tell the truth"
According do North Korean media, former supreme leader Kim Jong-il, invented burritos in 2011! Very confusing, but that's what he says.
A woman who quit her job to act like a puppy full-time has gone viral after being filmed getting into a 'fight' with another 'dog'.
A woman married the colour pink after dating it for more than 40 years, in a bizarre ceremony that made history and is believed to be the first of its kind.
The skunk ape, also known as the swamp ape and Florida Bigfoot, is a purported ape-like creature that is said to inhabit the forests and swamps of some south-eastern United States, most notably in Florida.
This week, Aaron took a short left off the N5 and stopped in Harrismith. The town of Harrismith is situated in Thabo Mofutsanyana region of the Free State province, South Africa.
Scientists at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel have trained goldfish to drive motorized tanks around a room with promises of a 'reward' should they complete the task.
We found a TikTok user who claims to be from the future. Not only that, he also decided to share some of his predictions for 2022.
At the age of six, you are not even in school yet. You still get taken care of by your mom. She cooks and cleans for you and makes sure that you are safe and happy.
The replica potato was chopped down from its stand at around 3.30am on New Year's Day, according to a police report. Nicknamed the "big potato", the sculpture made headlines around the world and on social media when it was installed in October 2021.
Officials in Texas town said residents weren't just imagining it when it seemed to be "raining fish" during a storm.
A video from Demi Lovato's documentary series "Unidentified With Demi Lovato" claims to show that the popular singer-songwriter has had an interaction with a ghost, named Carmen, who tells Demi Lovato about "trauma" caused by men.
After years of work, a man in the UK has finished a model train set with 1 kilometre of tracks.
The Caped Crusader will be travelling across Britain in an eye-catching Batman-inspired mobile van, an alternative to the traditional Santa's grotto this Christmas.
With all the beef, lamb and chicken that we will be eating this festive, one needs to have an assortment of salads right? Well this week, Chef Maradine has the perfect salad pairing for us.
Two politicians in Brazil jumped in the ring with one another to settle a score, rather than resolve it in the more expected - and polite - way.
About 50 days after a volcano eruption caused a buzz around the Canary Islands, thousands of honeybees emerged from the ashes, after having sealed themselves in their hives to weather the lava flow.
If you thought robots were emotionless machines, think again — because a man in England has invented a robot that can create art and write poems.
Organizers of a beauty contest for camels in Saudi Arabia said 43 animals have been disqualified for receiving Botox treatments, face lifts and other cosmetic procedures.
Chef Maradine gives us a tasty trifle with a twist. This week, we have chocolate & cherry trifle on our menu, sure to put extra colour on your Christmas dinner table.
Nico once again caught up with Kyla Gouws. The last time we spoke to her, she was on her way to the IMTA talent competition in New York. Now she is back with her very own single, Parachute.
A man accidentally burnt his entire house down, while trying to get rid of snakes that had found their way inside the house.
Pilots in China have spotted hovering somewhere in between the clouds. And somewhere on the moon, the Chinese Rover has spotted a weird looking cube.
A dad has revealed the “ridiculous” letter his daughter received on her first day at work, which contained some rather unusual office rules.
During the march of the Christmas Island crustaceans, automobiles become useless. And pedestrians don’t get off much easier. As videos posted to social media show, people must carefully pick through waves of the scarlet-hued creatures, which make their way from the island to the ocean.
Home Alone fans can finally fulfill their dream of staying at the iconic McCallisters’ house this Christmas. The house that served as the home of Kevin and his large family is now available on Airbnb for one night.
The festive season is here and this week, Chef Maradine has the perfect meal for your Christmas lunch.
This week, Aaron takes a trip to the Thabo Mufutsanyane district, just of the R26 and stops in the beautiful small town of Clocolan.
Julie Hawkins, aged 105, has broken the 100-meter world record for a woman in her age group — but was still annoyed she didn't run it even faster.
Nico caught up with the Loslappie hitmaker to chat about his latest single, Opmaak Liefde. The team then decided to throw a tongue twister at Kurt and his reply will leave you in stitches.
This year, 12 days of Christmas will cost American shoppers way more than previous years.
Exams are not everyone's most favorite thing about school, but every now and then, there are those set of questions in the exams, that put a smile on your face.
Looking at the recent weather we've been having, we asked our in-house chef, chef Maradine, to give us a recipe that would work with the rainy weather. She brought along a recipe that puts a twist to the traditional pancake.
It's OFM Thank you Thursday and we are thanking our farmers and the agricultural sector for the amazing efforts and contribution to Central South Africa. Today we talk to Dr Frikkie Maré who serves as one of the directors of the non-profit organisation, the Agri Relief Foundation (ARF).
Edgar Randolph “Painless” Parker performed in numerous cities and turned the act of pulling teeth into a show, promising to pay $5 should patients feel any pain.
Nico chats with retired RSA Rugby Union's head of refereeing Andre Watson. They touch on his everyday life, his refereeing career and what he thinks of the current state of refereeing in rugby.
Not everyone likes dogs, that we understand, but this man took it a bit too far. An unknown man placed a turd on a tram seat and blamed a popular stray do that the community of Istanbul has come to love.
Surgeons discovered two hairballs, one measuring 15cm by 10cm and another smaller one in the 38-year-old's intestines.
Our dietician, Liezl van Zyl is back for the last time this year. Today, she takes a look at the type of food we'll be consuming this coming festive season. Yes it is the festive and we will be eating a lot of food, but do remember to keep your health in mind. Don't eat too much junk and remember to keep active as well.
Hi kids, if you think that animals are amazing, this is the show for you! Join host Earth Ranger Emma as she travels the world to discover the wildest animal facts out there and solve nature’s biggest mysteries. With top ten countdowns, an animal guessing game, conservation conversations, and epic animal showdowns, this is a journey you won’t want to miss!
An Alabama engineer took inspiration from his childhood to break a Guinness World Record for building the world's largest Nerf gun.
This week, Chef Maridine helps us out with some easy to make snacks for the little ones. These are sure to keep them busy while watching their movies this coming festive break.
This week, Aaron takes a turn along the R26 in the Eastern Free State and stops at Ficksburg.
A man who recently moved with his wife from the Washington, D.C., area to Texas brought along something unusual -- his collection of more than 70,000 items related to Star Wars villain Darth Vader.
Yep, it has happened again! Another Google earth user has found something on Google earth and believes it might just be aliens taking pictures of earth.
Rockfish could hold the key to eternal life as new scientific research shows that they have genetics that help them live for over 200 years.
The German hamster trades cryptocurrencies in a rigged container known as the “Goxx Box” and has done so since June 2021.
Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his patients. He’d host star-studded parties at his eccentric vacation house. But one summer, Joe discovered that Ike was gone and everything he’d thought he’d known about his neighbor -- and the house next door -- was wrong. From Wondery, the company behind Dirty John and Dr. Death, and Bloomberg, “The Shrink Next Door” is a story about power, control and turning to the wrong person for help for three decades. Written and hosted by Joe Nocera, a columnist for Bloomberg. The Shrink Next Door is soon to be an Apple Original series, starring Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd. Premieres November 12 only on Apple TV+
An 83-year-old from Alabama started walking when he retired more than 25 years ago — and never stopped.
It's time to bask in the athletic prowess of Wrinkle, the especially spiffy emotional support duck who ran at least part of the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
Normally, our chef, Chef Maridine, gives us easy to make recipes. Today she decided to rather give us some kitchen tips that will make working in your kitchen that much easier.
Because we really love coffee on The Joyride, we decided to get a professional to help us make the best coffee, or at least taste it. Stevo Kuhn is a competitive barista from Bloemfontein. He is the 2019 Central Region Barista Champion and at the 2020 South African Barista competition he placed 2nd. Taking hold of the best espresso and best technical awards.
The New Belgium brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado, is famous for its Fat Tire ale and sizable supply of suds. But recently, CEO Steve Fechheimer decided to craft a new beer, created to highlight how climate change threatens breweries.
If the world of Hogwarts, Huffelpuff and Gryffindor is where you spend most of your fantasy time, then Wingardium Leviosa means exactly what you think it means, we summoned a broomstick!
A man in the UK is on a mission to collect deep fried chips from every single Wetherspoons in the UK.
A New Zealand charity ruffled a few feathers this week after announcing the winner of their Bird of the Year award wasn’t a bird at all, but rather a long-tailed bat!
What happens when two geniuses meet? How do great duos -- like the Beatles' Lennon and McCartney, or Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin -- manage to change the world together? What about when the sparks start to fly?
Every great collaboration is a love story. It’s intense. Passionate. Along the way, there’s flashes of love, hate, pride, ego, ambition, and brilliance. From Wondery, the company behind the hit podcasts "Business Wars" and "American Scandal," comes ONE PLUS ONE, an ongoing series about the fascinating stories of two great minds coming together to accomplish something they never could on their own.
In each series, hosts Rico Gagliano (Safe for Work) and Faith Salie (CBS' Sunday Morning) will bring you the ups and downs of the world's greatest collaborations, and what we can learn from these pairs in our own work and life relationships.
A company in Hong Kong has designed a robot dog that the consumer can build themselves at home.
When you thought the internet couldn't get any weirder, it always does. A king penguin at Edinburgh zoo has been knighted by the Norwegian King's Guard.
Chef Maridine is back with another easy to make recipe! This week she helps with making some tasty pate to go perfect with your pre-braai snacks.
Nico caught up with talented, adventurous and obstacle course athlete Thomas van Tonder. The South African started racing OCR in 2013 and finished second in his first race. Within three years he had turned pro!
Seeing that Aaron hasn't been able to fully explore central South Africa due to the pandemic, he decided to take little tours at least once a week. He starts his journey in the eastern Free State town of Fouriesburg, situated along the R711 & R26 routes, a stone throw away from the Caledon's Poort Lesotho border post.
A rumored vigilante in South Africa has earned the nickname 'John Wick' and been hailed as a 'hero' by local residents. However, police say the evidence so far does not suggest the killings are the work of a lone gunman.
Nico speaks to Bloemfontein based body building couple Salomien & Morne Delport who recently took part in the IBFF World's Pro Am 2021 and both came back with top 3 finishes. They tell us about fitness for competition, explain some of the difference within the sport and plans for the future.
This strange planetary light was spotted next to the sun. Is it possibly the mythical 10th planet called Nibiru spoken of by the Sumerians or is it something else?
There's taking a break from the house to avoid an argument, then there's what this guy did. A man on probation and under house arrest, handed himself over to the police just to "escape" from his wife.
"Nine years ago, an idea spread like wildfire across the internet, a trampoline bridge over Paris’s River Seine. Although the concept soon went viral, it remained unrealized until 2021."
How did Charles Manson become an evil, cunning monster? In August 1969, the world is shocked by the savage murders of movie star Sharon Tate and four others at the sprawling Hollywood Hills estate she shares with film director Roman Polanski. When the following night another couple is brutally slaughtered, panic spreads among Los Angeles residents. Four months later, the mastermind behind these vicious crimes is arrested, and the public learns the name that would haunt it to this day: Charles Manson. But few knew then – or now – the full story behind the making of a mass murderer. In this groundbreaking 6-part series, host Tracy Pattin is joined by internationally acclaimed actor Stephen Lang (Avatar, Don’t Breathe) to take listeners on a unique journey, investigating Manson’s unlikely path from his troubled childhood in rural West Virginia to the night he sent his out his followers to commit the most infamous crime in Hollywood history.
Researchers from Osaka University in Japan have 3D printed wagyu beef, and it looks very close to the real thing.
Ever worried about a sweat stain? Or maybe your stokings tearing? Well this week, Nikki has the perfect tips to help you out.
The Los Angeles home from the 1984 movie A Nightmare on Elm Street has been listed for sale in time for Halloween with an asking price of $3.5 million.
Our in house chef, Chef Maridine is back! This week, she has a rather peculiar dessert, but one sure to tickle your taste buds.
Behind the secret entrance lie five restaurant and bar spaces, all immaculately designed. A Gotham City-themed restaurant has opened in London's Soho - but you'll need a keen eye to spot it.
The internet is laden with conspiracy theories regarding the infamous terrorist attacks on the twin towers. One can have their pick from a huge variety and ironically, most of them are logical and put forth a cogent argument.
A baked bean fanatic has adapted every aspect of his life to centre around his 'passion' and has even forked out over £10,000 ($13,700) on bean-themed merch.
Ever wanted to have a braai, but really not in the mood for the smoke for some odd reason? Nico found a very nifty useful tool for the upcoming braai season that will give you the great braai taste, without the smoke. Basically, you can braai inside your house.
Around 100 hippos descended from hippos previously owned by Pablo Escobar are the first non-human creatures to be legally considered people by a U.S. court.
What is it like to be famous before you’re famous? What is it like to walk in the shoes of another person? Each episode of Imagined Life takes you on an immersive journey into the life of a world-famous person. It’ll be someone you may think you know, even admire -- or maybe the opposite. You’ll get clues to your identity along the way. But only in the final moments will you find out who “you” really are. So sit back, let go, and -- imagine your life, with our hosts, Oscar nominated Virginia Madsen and celebrated voice actor Robbie Daymond. From Wondery, the network behind Dirty John.
A 4-year-old New Zealand boy was visited by a police officer after calling emergency services to ask for somebody to come and see his collection of toys. The officer reported that the toys were, indeed, pretty cool.
Nikki is back with some weird yet useful hacks. some tips to keep your battery lasting longer, how to retain information after studying & how to increase your concentration.
A man and his garden were splashed with human waste from a plane flying overhead. And you thought you were having a bad day, eh?
Chef Maridine is back with another easy recipe for you to try this weekend. Today she helps make a salad from one of South Africa's favorite snack, biltong.
Aaron & Nico catch up with Protea cricketer Anrich Nortje. They talk the upcoming cricket world cup and the readiness of the team.
A woman has been shocked to discover just how much data Amazon has collected about her.
Nico & Aaron helped an 8 year old blind young man meet one of his heroes, Paralympian Louzanne Coetzee.
UFO hunter, Scott C Waring, believed he might have just see a UFO. He believes that the mysterious "craft" is getting ready to leave the ocean and launches into space.
A 72-year-old Bosnian man has built a house that can rotate all the way around, after becoming tired of his wife's complaints about the view from their home.
Jaybee found a quick gadget that will be very helpful if you love watching videos on your phone.
A load of people online has been absolutely baffled after spotting a strange island on Google Maps that appears to have been completely blacked out. Honestly, there's no wonder that some people have suggested that they might have finally found the island from Lost.
Her 'quantum immortality' theory is that we never really die and that we just wake up in a parallel universe whenever you pass on in another - her theories left TikTok followers uneasy.
This week's menu has something sweet and something sour. Chef Maradin takes us on a little taste trip with some Asian inspired that has something to do with watermelon, just in time for summer.
Otzi The Iceman is one of the oldest and greatest mummy specimens in the world. So well preserved, perhaps, that he is still making his mark on the lives of those trying to tell his story.
We found that the oldest insurance company in the world turned 325 years yesterday. They celebrated this by sharing some of their weirdest insurance claims. After reading this, we then decided to call a couple of South African insurers to see if they would be willing to insure some of our weird, "belongings".
A documentary about a UFO citing and cover up and surface, turning the conspiracy world all sorts of frantic. On top of all that, it has also surfaced that Men In Black was not just a series of movies, but a retelling of events that actually took place.
In a packed Istanbul passenger ferry between Europe and Asia, all eyes turn to one commuter enjoying the view from his window. Boji, a street dog, has become a regular sight on ferries, buses and metro trains in Europe’s largest city. A devoted commuter, the dog enjoys long journeys on public transport, up to 30 kilometres (20 miles) on a regular week day.
Being a sport fanatic, it only makes sense that Aaron finds a sporting series that he randomly becomes obsessed with. But this isn't just any sport series, it will keep you glued to your screen, especially when you find out what it is about.
There is something quite distinctly upsetting when one of your favourite snacks is discontinued and you find yourself wondering what on earth you can sink your teeth into now.
Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Girl marries girl. Boy gets boy back, but then his family can’t stand him. Wondery’s new series is all about love, relationships, and the sometimes bumpy road to commitment. Host Ingrid Haas (Chelsea Lately, Key and Peele) recently got engaged herself, and she will explore stories from real couples to learn what went wrong, and how they finally got it right. She’ll recount surprise engagements featuring pop stars and tense wedding ceremonies. And she’ll look for answers to the questions that keep us up at night: Will I ever find someone? If I like it, will I put a ring on it? And how the hell does anyone get to happily ever after anyway?
Usually when people go on a journey to find out about themselves, they don't end up with more questions than before. Well, that's unless you're Lydia Ellen, who was told she ‘Didn’t exist' when she received Ancestry DNA results.
The story of Edward Mordrake is as compelling as it is woeful. The narrative of a doomed man, cursed with a second face on the back of his head, is a staple of “true” horror listicles, medical mystery compilations, and “Did You Know?” image macros.
Chef Maradine gives us a quick recipe for those with a bit of a sweet tooth. Today we are making Churros!
SpaceX has provided the rocket which will lift off in November and carry out a universe-first space maneuver less than a year later, hopefully allowing Earth to protect itself from asteroids
A weird dome was captured in satellite images on Google Earth in Antarctica – with some conspiracy theorists blaming aliens.
Danielle Witt and Ben Rockey-Harris made the terrifying discovery they had accidentally bought the infamous home that inspired the hit 1973 film The Exorcist - after wondering why it was so cheap.
Wired is a YouTube channel, and one of the features is a Google Autocomplete questionnaire. Now what makes this really fun is that they get celebrities to come onto the show and ask each other the questions that have been posed to Google before.
Jen Glantz has thousands of women and girls envious of her life, as she makes a living out of attending the wedding of strangers as a professional bridesmaid.
A persistent internet rumor has led Canada's government to officially deny that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the love child of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Racing to beat NASA, an actress and a film director will blast off next month for the International Space Station, where they will film “The Challenge.”
The dry and windy weather have caused seasonal fires that have spread across the Northern Cape. The fires put a lot of animals in danger and sometimes in close proximity with humans as they try evade the fires and run into the roads. We chat national spoke person of the NSCPA Kevsie Nair, who enlightens us on how to handle the animals, should we find ourselves in this situation.