Everyone has their own particular talent. For Paul Hunn, it’s the ability to belch at 110 decibels. Action replays included.

Held every year, at the Sensoji Temple, in Tokyo, the baby crying festival is a 400-year-old tradition, believed to keep rug-rats in good health. Amateur sumo wrestlers hold the babies high in the air, and try to scare them into crying, while a sumo referee judges the match. The toddler who cries longest and loudest is considered the winner.

Some people are night owls, and others are morning larks. What makes the difference may be their levels of general intelligence. However, humans, unlike other mammalian species, have the unique ability, consciously and cognitively, to override their internal biological clock and its rhythmic outputs. In other words, at least for humans, circadian rhythm is not entirely a matter of genetics.

Within broad genetic constraints, humans can choose what time to go to bed and get up. Humans can choose to be night owls or morning larks.

Traffic that grinds to a halt and then restarts for no apparent reason is one of the biggest causes of frustration for drivers. Now a team of Japanese researchers has recreated the phenomenon on a test-track for the first time.

Four Lions is a film that satirises a group of hapless Muslims who decide to blow themselves and others up during the London Marathon. It is directed by Chris Morris who was behind the TV series ‘Brass Eye’; and even though the subject maybe cause controversy he attempts to show us the funny side through his Jihads who are more like ‘Dad’s Army’ buffoons.

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Origami artist Mui-Ling Teh makes small but perfectly formed paper creations so small that they can only be appreciated in close-up photographs.

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