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Former War Zones Too Dangerous to Enter
When the smoke clears and the last shells have fallen, some war zones will retain painful reminders of former unpleasantries. Uncleared and unmapped, it's safe to say minefields present an extremely unpredictable and deadly danger to civilians, often long after the conflict in which they were used in has come to a close. Here are some of the deadliest places to go walking unescorted...
Continue reading...Animals Recruited for War
Monday, September 28, 2009
Since the dawn of time, men's creativity when it comes to hurting other men has known no bounds, and his fellow beasts have, on occasion, been called into this service. This has taken many different forms over the years. Elephants, dogs and dolphins have all been drafted to fight in mankind's various squabbles...
Continue reading...The Bridge of Mostar: The Jewel that Divides Two Cultures
Monday, September 14, 2009
As the USSR crumbled, a similar but far bloodier process was taking place in a troubled part of Eastern Europe. For hundreds of years a melting pot of nationalities, and today the last bastion of Islam in Europe, nowhere was the fighting fiercer or more terrible than in the beautiful Herzegovinan region of Mostar...
Continue reading...Leningrad’s Past Comes Back to Haunt it [PICS]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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All too often we forget the hardship experienced by generations past, especially during certain wars, yet some people have a profound way of reflecting on times gone by, presenting their take on the world in a new light. These haunting, hybrid images of past and present St Petersburg – formerly known as Leningrad – are the works of Sergei Larenkov.
Continue reading...Iraq’s Depleted Uranium Shells Could Kill 500,000
Monday, May 26, 2008
Image from Christiaan Briggs In the wake of the first Gulf War, the American Press was enamored with military technology in a way that they never had been before, trumpeting the ability of the modern Roman Legions to put a single bomb through a single window anywhere in [...]
Continue reading...Blame Global Warming For Next Global Heath Epidemic
Thursday, April 10, 2008
As carbon dioxide levels rise and global warming sets into full motion in the coming decades, there’s most likely going to be a patient demanding some critical care and attention. Of course the planet will need some attention… but maybe you will, as well. Image by Apollyon [...]
Continue reading...Rebels Threaten Execution for Gorilla Rangers
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Congolese rebels in control of eastern Congo and Virunga National Park have said they will execute any wildlife rangers attempting to enter the area, home to nearly half the world’s endangered mountain gorillas. Land mines have been placed on routes leading into the region, despite a recent signed [...]
Continue reading...Military Creates Cyborg Insect Spies
Thursday, March 6, 2008
In the movies, cyborgs are almost always evil. After creating insect spies, scientists plan to invent the “fanborg”: half human, half robot, all nerd. Image by Bruno Girin Generally they use their superior robot strength and intelligence to destroy us puny weaklings until a plucky flesh-and-blood human comes along [...]
Continue reading...James Lovelock Says Live It Up: We’ve Got “20 years before it hits the fan”
Sunday, March 2, 2008
This is a follow-up to my previous post, “If You Knew the World Would End in the Near Future, What Would You Do?” Smile, this guy says we’re all screwed! It’s not the way I wanted to start my Saturday, reading that James Lovelock, the author of the [...]
Continue reading...If You Knew the World Would End in the Near Future, What Would You Do?
Friday, February 29, 2008
It’s a new take on the age-old question that takes the form, “If you could do something without getting caught, would you?” A retreating ice shelf in Greenland. Photo by John Rudolph Usually, the ’something’ involves having an affair, stealing a large amount of money, or even killing [...]
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Monday, October 26, 2009
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