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Things from behind can take you by surprise. There's a reason the word "backstabber" has the connotations it does - it's not just an attack from an arbitrary position, it's specifically dishonourable because the victim…

Want to show that a creature is alien or somehow otherworldly? Easy - give it eye stalks. This simple anatomical alteration seems so strange to us humans that it will clearly signal the extraterrestrial, or…

'Verse' has many meanings. It can mean a stanza of song or poetry, or the concept of poetry in general. In some circles, it is short for 'universe', and is thus used to mean 'world',…

Black ice: This is when a thin, transparent layer of ice covers part of the road. It’s extremely tough to spot, and can make your vehicle skid or lose control on the slippery surface. This…

The other day, I drove into a narrow lane off a main road. I didn't want to reverse back out onto the busy street, so I had to do a billion-point turn (or that's what…

Being able to reverse and parallel park without using a camera is not required for the VicRoads driving test. This says something interesting about our society. We've reached a stage of technology where it's understood…

Parallel parking is hard. I know, this might sound obvious to some, and false to others. But the truth is, unless you have a lot of practice - and sometimes even then - it'll often…

People might object to getting a reverse camera kit on the grounds that they don't technically need one. And, at least in some circumstances, I suppose that's true. But while necessity might be the mother…

Reversing should be easy. Driving should be easy. Life should be easy. Alright, maybe life shouldn't be too easy. Many of us wouldn't want to say goodbye to all the challenges in life. But apart…

Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize-winning theory of relativity all started with a thought experiment about a train, a mirror, and a beam of light. It ends up going to some pretty complicated places, all because of…

It has been said that an army marches on its stomach. Even if you're not a military sort of person, it's important to be well-provisioned if you're travelling anywhere. There's nothing that can make people…

Last Saturday, some friends and I drove into the Dandenong Ranges for a bushwalk. On our way, we accidentally took a wrong turn and went down what turned out to be a driveway. A very…