May 20, 2011 – 8:38 am
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the fun and light hearted CDC blog post about preparing for the zombie apocalypse. It is Zombie Awareness Month (which I totally forgot to blog about after they emailed me that link. Sorry!), after all. Here’s how Kim Carollo of ABC News treats it Will Budget Cuts Leave […]
April 22, 2011 – 9:36 pm
Things like this are what Earth Day is supposed to be about
April 16, 2011 – 6:12 pm
Well, they’re hoping lasers will work, unfortunately, not located on shark’s heads NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A ship-based laser tested by the Navy’s research arm could put the heat on Somali pirates. The Navy for the first time last week successfully tested a solid-state high-energy laser from a ship. The beam, which was aimed at […]
April 12, 2011 – 7:05 pm
This should be good Just standing next to a bottle of hand sanitizer brings out the conservative in people, a Cornell University study has found. And just looking at a reminder to wash your hands can bring out the sexual puritan, according to the research in the journal Psychological Science. You know this is going […]
March 23, 2011 – 11:53 am
I’m going to have to agree with Treehugger’s Matthew McDermott on this one Details are a bit thin on this one, but my initial reaction to this is an overwhelming grossness: Reports from Times of India are that researchers in China have genetically modified some 200 cows so that the milk they produced in similar […]
February 28, 2011 – 7:44 pm
Considering the state of British food, they have to be really, really worried A restaurant which put breast milk ice cream on sale have had their supplies seized by council officials amid fears it is unsafe. The Baby Gaga ice cream will now undergo tests to see if it is safe for adult consumption. Viruses, […]
January 26, 2011 – 8:30 am
Apparently, according to NPR, what people got out of the 2011 State Of The Union Prom was….salmon Right after President Barack Obama finished his State of the Union address, we asked our listeners to describe his speech in three words. We received responses from more than 4,000 of you. We’ve run them through a word […]
December 27, 2010 – 10:04 pm
Well, not really, I just thought this was a pretty cool article. I love this kind of nature stuff Experiments by a team of researchers in New York and New Jersey have generated evidence that questions the common belief that the pterygotid eurypterids (“sea scorpions”) were high-level predators in the Paleozoic oceans. This group, which […]
November 21, 2010 – 8:04 pm
That is, when you read from a Scottish newspaper: “Laggravation over laundry” Around 500 lags at HMP Glenochil refused to attend work or classes yesterday after perverts were allowed to handle their smalls. Instead they stayed in their cells after breakfast. And at lunchtime, warders were forced to serve up the food themselves and clear […]
November 20, 2010 – 9:50 pm
You simply know that these folks must be Obama voters’ Typically, missing-animal posters encourage one to wonder: Have I ever seen that creature? In the case of one “missing” poster seen on the Upper West Side in New York earlier this month, the lost animal was not a puppy or someone’s cat. It was a […]
