Pink Panties: A Weapon For Ridiculing Extremists
It has been about a week since Valentine's Day, and the internet has been deluged with stories of what people did that day ever since. Amazingly, one of them was actually worth reading about. It occurred in India, where rapid modernization and liberalization has put traditionalists on the defensive.
Continue reading...This Day In History: Wierdest Disaster Ever
Friday, January 16, 2009
On this day in 1915 (from the day of publishing, at least), argueably the strangest man-made disaster ever happened in Boston when a 50 foot, 2.3 million gallon tank of molasses collapsed. This created a wave of sugary destruction up to 15 feet-high, travelling at the breakneck speed (for molasses) of 35 mph and what must surely be one of the hardest clean-up efforts of a non-inherently lethal substance in recent history.
Continue reading...What The Neocons Think About Sustainable Energy
Friday, January 9, 2009
Some skepticism is good, and I am am certainly not suggesting that the government should always be trusted. But conspiracy theories tend to fall under two categories; "plausible" and "WTF?" Some people are incapable of dicerning between the two. According to the winter '08 issue of the Intelligence Report, there was no shortage of the latter kind of conspiracy theory going around at the Ninth Annual Freedom 21 conference.
Continue reading...The Strangest Camouflage in the World
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Insects typically do not stand out. Something to do with it being their one way ticket to certain extinction, generally. A fact that just adds to the mystique of the extremely rare pink katydid. Though remarkably pretty and startling, one must wonder just what purpose this color scheme serves. It’s certainly not the best camouflage, so must surely result in untimely death more often than not.
Continue reading...The Most Painful Animal Bite on Earth
Friday, October 31, 2008
Remember how whiny you were when your parents made you get a job or mow the lawn or whatever it was you had to do to "become a man/woman?" Feel like a sissy looking back on how "hard" you had it then? If not, you will. The Setere-Mawe people of Brazil have found something far worse (albeit less humiliating) than your first job at McDonald's. Meet the bullet ant.
Continue reading...Nature’s Deadly Bong
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Limnic eruptions are well outside of public consciousness. Not surprising, considering their extreme rarity. In all of recorded human history we only know of two for certain. Both occurred in Africa in the 1980s; one at Lake Monoun in 1984 and then a particularly deadly one at Lake Nyos in 1986. The latter killed as many as 1,800 people and the lakes have yet to recover.
Continue reading...How Ecotourism is Destroying Antarctica
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Problems were inevitable for Antarctic tourism from the start. Seen by many as the last unspoiled landmass on earth, the unique and vulnerable ecosystem is what attracts people to our southernmost continent. How do we handle tourism to a place whose only appeal to most of us is its lack of large-scale human contact? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
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Monday, February 23, 2009
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