If this does not show a cross species link with non-humans, I do not know what proof is needed.
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Category: Environment
Ever wonder why no one has solved the problem of having to raise your arm repeatedly on the couch in order to throw a ball to your dog? Well, finally scientists have tackled the problem.
Continue reading “Scientific Breakthrough: Engineers Develop Automatic Ball Toss For Dog Owners”
I wonder what graduate student is going to get this field assignment. Dozens of endangered species have been found in the demilitarized zone between Koreas. The Dear Leader is unlikely to prove a budding naturalist.
Continue reading “Preservation Through De-Militarization: Endangered Species Found in Korean DMZ”
Scientists have dated “hand” and “foot” prints in Poland that may be the oldest ever found of a four-legged creature. The prints were left in the early Middle Devonian period roughly 400 millions years ago. Of course, for creationists, who insist that the Bible shows that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, these are just muddy footprints and the scientists are off by 394,994,000 years in their calculations.
The Chinese government is again being accused of not acting swiftly enough to shutdown another company producing tainted food. The most recent scandal follows the 2008 case where the government allowed melamine-tainted infant formula to sicken 300,000 babies (and causing death for six babies). The same chemical is involved in the shutting down of the Shanghai Panda company, which produces condensed milk and milk powder.
Continue reading “Got Melamine? Chinese Officials Accused of Covering Up Tainted Milk”
I just saw this on Reddit and thought it was too cool not to share.
Continue reading “A Water Drop”
In Florida, Jason Alkire, 26, is accused of killing his cat and then skinning it in an effort to create a memorial. Police insist that the cat did not have nine lives, but Alkire allegedly had almost as many lies to explain why he was caught with a pocket knife skinning a house cat.
Continue reading “Nine Lies: Man Arrested After Killing and Skinning Cat for Memorial”
Looking for something else to worry about, consider T Pyxidis . . . it may be the end to all of us.
Sea Shephard’s hi-tech anti-whaling speedboat Ady Gil was virtually cut in half by a Japanese ship running interference for whalers this week. The Japanese Shonan Maru hit the speedboat during one of the confrontations at sea. At video of the ship is found at the site below.
Continue reading “Japanese Whaling Ship Cuts Off Bow of Environmentalist Ship”
PETA’s new ad featuring Carrie Underwood, Tyra Banks, Oprah Winfrey and the First Lady bills them as “among the most stylish and influential women in America” who “all refuse to wear real fur.” The First Lady also refuses to make such endorsements. The ad raises questions over the use of celebrity images without consent and possible appropriation of name or likeness in torts.
Continue reading “Fur Flies Over Advert: PETA Runs AD With Picture of First Lady Without Permission”
French officials have been heralding the amazing escape of the eldest son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Pierre, after a mudslide killed 64 people on the Isle of Pigs in Brazil. It was certainly an amazing and terrible mudslide but the escape was a bit less remarkable.
Continue reading “Pierre Sarkozy Makes “Miraculous Escape” From Mudslide . . . By Staying At Party”
Now this is the way to remove snow.
Continue reading “The Real Polar Express”
This should be shown in slow motion, of course.
Scientists are seeking greater protection of dolphins as “non-human persons” in light of research showing that they are the second most intelligence species after humans. They specifically argue that the continued use of the animals for amusement is morally unacceptable. They might want to start with the Japanese, who cherish an annual massacre of dolphins as a cultural tradition (shown below).
Continue reading “Scientists Call For Dolphins to Be Given “Non-Human Person” Status”
While Hugo Chavez spends wildly on a military build up and cracks down on free speech and the free press in Venezuela (here), he has ordered the rationing of electricity in the oil-rich country. Chavez blames not his policies but waste of businesses for the crisis.
Continue reading “Chavez Orders Rationing of Electricity”