Anorak Magazine

This edition sees the start of a beautiful friendship between humans and aliens. That’s because it has been made together with a very special guest who has travelled from a galaxy far, far away: her name is Miss Zonk. She happened to land on Planet E

If you ate a 200-year-old potato, you would end up with a very sick tummy. If you ate a 2,000-year-old pot of honey, you would be… absolutely fine! That’s because honey never spoils. Potatoes do, but honey… nope! Bees ensure that it can last during t

“I have no doubt that humans will one day fly by the rings of Saturn. We have already sent probes to Saturn, although there weren’t any people in them. The most recent voyage there was undertaken by the Cassini-Huygens probe, which has just completed

How are globes made? Our globes are made by hand. This means we hand-cut a map into shapes called “gores”. They are then individually wet and stretched across a sphere. A globe maker has to be very careful while stretching the paper as naturally it w

What would happen if countries had no borders? “It would really help, I think. It would mean that anyone could visit any country without needing a passport. My dad has lost his passport twice, so that would help him.” Jess (6 years old) “I think not

Dearest diary, I have been sitting in the tower for a while, resigned to the fact that I would not be able to find a way to come down from it without breaking my neck. I had been having such a pleasant afternoon until then. The landscape in Germany h

“This disease is my least favourite because it is, frankly, silly, and I don’t like silly things. It starts at an early age in children, as young as two years old, especially the ones who have a mischievious nature. It is known to last until the age

A swan threw a hissy fit today at approximately 5:30pm on the banks of the river Flee. He frightened passing children with the flapping of his wings and even spat at them. After a responsible duck rang a river guard, he was eventually restrained and

Long term resident of 345, Nightmare Street, Mrs Witticombe, came to the police station yesterday in a state of despair. Mr Plod, the police officer in charge of “strange-but-true-cases” first offered Mrs Witticombe a cup of tea to calm her nerves. W

We are proud to announce that Peterville has now opened the first Pigeon Museum in the world. On the day, a world-famous pigeon band played as the exhibits were declared open. The museum showcases the column where Paul the pigeon announced the Pigeon

A visiting alien from Planet Mercury walked into the town’s square yesterday and gathered a crowd with his cries. “Aliens exist” he shouted “and I am the living proof of it.” He invited people in the crowd to prod him to judge for themselves but the

Hello. My name is Miss Cloud. I live in the sky with my family. When I was a child cloud, days never seemed to end. We sat in our home in the sky all day, until we were ready to go out and drop rain on the world. When I reached seven years old, my pa

“Earth is named after Erda, an old Anglo Saxon word which means land or soil. A bit of a boring name, don’t you think, for a planet that carries whales, ice creams and rainbows? What shall we rename it?” “Your planet is the only planet to have one mo

How the world was created is a question that humans have been trying to solve for thousands of years. Some believe it was created by one or several gods while others think it was the result of energies coming together in the universe. For a very long

An elephant’s brain is much bigger than ours – at least 3 or 4 times larger. They are capable of showing emotions like crying or laughing, and have an excellent memory. Worms are strange creatures: they have no arms or legs; they are both male and fe

Our ancestors started organising themselves into cities around 9,000 years ago. The first of these ‘settlements’ (as they were called back then) were found in Jericho (Palestine) and Çatalhöyük (Turkey). The latter one housed as many as 7,000 inhabit

Rainforests are like a belt of plants, trees and creatures living all around the Earth. Found in South America, South East Asia and Africa, they are crucial to us. While rainforests only cover 6% of our planet, they are home to half the world’s plant

When he was 16 years old, Hector Turner became the youngest Briton to complete the Marathon des Sables, which means he ran 150 miles across the extremely hot Sahara desert! “My dad has always been an outdoorsy sort of person. He was often heading off

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