Entries Tagged as 'Science and Nature'
It’s Cuz They Respect Their Women More, See
See:
SF Chronicle – Afghanistan’s dirty little secret
For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover. Literally it means “boy [...]
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Sussing Out Possible Omens
A Chinese boy is born with 6 normally-growing digits on each hand and foot, giving him 24 total.
Strangely, three months before the birth of Guangchun, his family’s sow also labored a weird shaped piglet, which had eight legs, two mouths and four ears.
His mother says:
“The pig died two days later. [...]
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EFFITY EFFING EFF
I was at Ikea the other day and couldn’t find where they’d put their damned 100 watt bulbs.
Ikea – IKEA TO PHASE OUT INCANDESCENT LIGHTING IN ALL US IKEA STORES BEGINNING AUGUST 1, 2010
EFF.
*howls*
Now I’ve just discovered a WHOLE LINE of products that they don’t carry at the Seattle store and it’s made me [...]
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I’ve Left It Too Late Again
So this time I give you a picture of a baby sea otter, sucking a pacifier.
Curtsy: ZooBorns. Baby turns one tomorrow. We’ll be at the zoo.
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Wave Bye-Bye to NASA, Kids
Holy crap:
CDR Salamander – NASA is lost ….
It will take decades to recover from the Obama Mal-Administration’s hate of this nation’s greatness. In a far-reaching restatement of goals for the nation’s space agency, NASA administrator Charles Bolden says President Obama has ordered him to pursue three [...]
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The Jones Act and Creative Problem Solving in the Gulf Oil Spill
Weekly Standard – Oil Messed Up Anger grows along the Gulf Coast at the Obama administration’s pathetic response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history. By Winston Groom (author of Forrest Gump, among others)
It has been apparent from the outset that the Obama administration had no wish to be responsible for fixing this [...]
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The Gulf Oil Spill and the Perplexing US Government
This has made the rounds (honestly I don’t even know if I might have already linked to it in another publication/blog) but here it is again for the old external memory drive, because it’s JUST. SO. AMAZINGLY. BAAAAD.
FP – Avertible catastrophe
Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand [...]
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I Got Nuthin
Tomorrow’s a big day. So I offer you just this: A dog playing soccer with a deer.
Where is that dog’s self respect. EAT THE DEER.
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Out to Fix the Disease of Being Female
This right here makes this new Times site worthwhile. You can register for free! For freee!
The Times – What do women want? Not a sex drug, thanks, by Janice Turner
Two quotes:
Who needs these drugs, anyway? Is a woman who doesn’t want sex actually suffering from a medical condition? Unlike a man, the problem [...]
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Beware Government Employees Named Elizabeth
Remember Elizabeth Becton? Of “Call me Liz” fame? Now we have Elizabeth Peuler:
Under intense media scrutiny, at least a dozen federal agencies have taken part in the spill response, making decision-making slow, conflicted and confused, as they sought to apply numerous federal statutes. In one stark example of government disputes, [...]
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Peter Recommends CXXIV
Rat Staring Contest With Background Music
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While Aussies Have Been On the Hunter Valley Wine
They had to do something with all that lager…
Telegraph – ‘Drunk’ parrots baffle vets as they fall out of trees in Australia
Update: “The sad toll on the innocents,” hahaha.
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An Especially Oleaginous Puget Sound
Visualizing the BP Oil Spill in Seattle.
Pretty incredible.
Update: We can visualize an especially radioactive Puget Sound too:
NRO – Daniel Foster: Nuke It?
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Time For Top Hats in Poland
Telegraph – Beavers responsible for Poland’s flooding
Beavers are partly to blame for the devastating floods that have swept Poland killing 15 people because the animals tunnel through vital defences protecting the cities, the interior minister has said.
Hah!
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You’re Gonna Wanna Watch That Last 20 Seconds Over Again
EarthFirst Mourning Loss of a Tree – Crying & Screaming
Curtsy: Vanderleun,
Sane and thoughtful people upon viewing this quite naturally say, “Get me a gun. No, the bigger one.”
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