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Scientists Discover “Frogmander,” Americans Keep Teaching Creationism
Image from University of Calgary Some people just don’t get the point, no matter how much stuff happens – Americans continue to see creationism taught in their schools not as a religious doctrine, but as science, by at least a quarter of the nation’s biology teachers.
Continue reading...The “Lost Brittlestar City” of Antartica
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Image from laszio-photo The world record for the fastest a human can swim as a matter of fact, is just over 5 miles an hour. I explain that as a way of proving that there are sea stars thriving in a current in Antarctica that would leave [...]
Continue reading...Cat And Mouse Cause Blackout in Albanian Capital
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Image from ddfreyne The Albanian capital of Tirana was the center of a 72-hour power outage Friday, the latest in a series that have been plaguing the residents of the small former Soviet satellite. While most the blackouts have been related to a failing infrastructure that’s suffering age-related [...]
Continue reading...The Violence of the Sun: From Monster Flares to Solar Quakes
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Image from NASA. Not our sun, but you get the point. I know – who would have thought that a ball of gas so hot we can measure, but not yet properly fathom, be put off by its fusion-powered viciousness? The sun is having a bad week, [...]
Continue reading...EarthFirst!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
One of the best things about the environmental community is exactly that–the sense of community felt by all of those participating in it. Obviously this has diminished some since green became cool, and massive corporations like Shell began their greenwashing campaigns, but the reality is that most [...]
Continue reading...Truffle Crops Crashing Under Alien Threat
Monday, May 19, 2008
Image by Flickr user Ulterior Epicure European soils that have long been sniffed out by pigs in search of a fantastically expensive fungus are starting to lie still as an invasive breed takes over the continent. This dangerous threat? The Chinese black truffle, which is chasing the delicacy [...]
Continue reading...World’s Smallest Personal Helicopter Takes Off
Monday, May 19, 2008
Images Via 1, 2 A Japanese inventor has traveled to the birthplace of Leonardo DaVinci out of a desire to honor the legendary Italian designer with a series of demonstration flights of the world’s smallest helicopter, based on a concept of DaVinci’s.
Continue reading...Aussie Military brought in to Kill Kangaroos
Monday, May 19, 2008
Image from t3rmin4t0r The Australian military has begun a program to cull back a population of Eastern Gray Kangaroos outside of Canberra because of overpopulation, causing significant damage to the environment. At least 20 have already been killed, and a total of 400 will be exterminated [...]
Continue reading...The Urban Beekepers of London
Friday, May 16, 2008
Urban beekeepers. Images via 1, 2, 3, 4 There’s been a fair amount of coverage in recent years about the sudden disappearance of honeybees; a catastrophe that is so widespread that beekeepers in Southern California have resorted to stealing one another’s bees. There is at least one [...]
Continue reading...Did Pandas Know The Earthquake Was Coming?
Friday, May 16, 2008
Image from avlxyz It’s been well-documented that animals are better than we are at picking up little changes in the surrounding world. Watch your dog lose his marbles 30 minutes before a thunderstorm arrives and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. It only makes sense then, that [...]
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
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