Tigers in Sheep’s Clothing
Back at work today, and within mere hours of returning to my desk I was greeted with a new e-mail, forwarded by Napoleana! It was the “Mother of the Year” forward, showing a tiger allowing pigs wrapped in tiger skins to suckle, along with the following text: In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in th... »
A new kind of unsafe sex….
The safest sex used to be with yourself. After all, any STD you catch is most likely to be one you already have. According to Greenpeace, though, you might be in danger of picking something up even when you’re enjoying your single-serve pudding cup all alone. Some of the squishier jelly vibes are made using phthalates, free roaming chemicals that keep the plastic squishy but which could deta... »
Extremely bad ideas.
There’s an awful lot I’d like to talk about, but of course I’m limited by time, space, and proper story telling narrative. I’ll start by acknowledging the fact that today is September 11, 2006 — five years since terrorists killed 3,000 people on American soil. The weather this morning is exactly the same as it was then: clear, crisp, beautiful. While most Americans wi... »
Strippers and Science!
Who doesn’t love strippers? A few climatologists, for starters. The entertainment for the Australia-New Zealand Climate Forum included a burlesque act — hardly a strip show — during which attending scientists were invited to pop the balloons off a progressively nuder woman wearing stockings, hot pants, and a corset. Apparently, the conference-goers were not forewarned about the n... »
Monkeys Sticking Their Tongues Out!
Steve mentioned this on the most recent podcast, so I had to check it out. Researchers have recently determined that monkeys practice imitation “with a purpose.” I originally thought this was no big deal, but apparently it hasn’t been shown conclusively before that monkeys (as opposed to apes) practice this as a form of social learning. So, this story has immediately captured my ... »
