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- Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You've been warned. (video) (9 comments)
- Innocent people may have been framed for murder...by bugs? (1 comment)
- The Radical Pacifist History of Mother's Day (6 comments)
- Man pulled over for being radioactive (4 comments)
- Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: A Neglected Wife, her X-rated diary and How Victorian Britain Discovered That Women Enjoyed Sex Also (4 comments)
Phineas Gage Brain Map Study Spotlights Neuroscience's Most Celebrated Case
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 11:12 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
It's easy enough to understand the ghastly accident that befell poor Phineas Gage in Cavendish, Vermont on Sept. 13, 1848: the 25-year-old railroad worker was using an iron rod to tamp down blasting powder when the stuff exploded, sending the 43-inch-long, 13-pound rod through …
Vancouver Island Red Cedar: 800-Year-Old Tree Hacked Down, Says Environmental Group (PHOTOS)
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 2:15 PM EDT (Huffington Post Canada)
A giant 800-year-old red cedar tree has been poached from a provincial park on southern Vancouver Island, but the culprits who repeatedly returned to the site to hack it down may never be brought to justice. Torrance Coste of the Wilderness Committee said consistent budget cut …
Shaq O'Neal poses with tiny lemur
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 1:29 PM EDT (mongabay.com)
One of the world's most recognizable professional basketball players has used his stature to highlight one of the world's smallest primates: the mouse lemur from Madagascar. Shaquille O’Neal, a NBA legend who retired last year and earned a doctorate degree in education f …
Meet the sarcastic fringehead, an oddly named fish who looks like the Predator
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 7:02 PM EDT (io9)
The sarcastic fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi) is a footlong fish that lives off the Pacific coast of North America. When unthreatened, the fringehead's visage is fairly unremarkable. But if a marine predator (or stray human hand) attempts to dislodge a fringehead from its cre …
The Easter Island "Heads" Have Bodies
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 5:34 PM EDT (Mental Floss)
Maybe this isn’t a newsflash to anyone but me, but, um, the Moai “heads” on Easter Island have bodies. Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are disproportionately large, many people (myself included) te …
90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayers Bee-Decimating Pesticide
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 3:24 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
As I've written before, Bayer's neonicotinoid pesticides, which now coat upwards of 90 percent of US corn seeds and seeds of increasing portions of other major crops like soy, have emerged as a likely trigger for colony collapse disorder One of my biggest comp …
UFO Amnesty: Ex-Army Colonel John Alexander Seeks Amnesty For Military Who Witness UFOs [EXCLUSIVE]
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 3:03 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
If you're in the military and have ever seen what you believe to be a UFO, but were reluctant to mention it for fear of ridicule or, worse, repercussions that might end your career, take heart. Things may change. A former military insider with top secret clearance who created …
Fascinating Facts Game 9 (Inventions)
Wed May 16, 2012 9:38 AM EDT
Welcome to game 9 of Fascinating Facts. This game is dedicated to odd inventions that were released between 1920 and 1940. Below you will find 5 images of these inventions and polls to vote for what you believe these inventions are. Please answer the questions to the best of your …
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Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You've been warned. (video)
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:42 PM EDT (io9)
Arachnophobes can usually take comfort in the fact that spiders are solitary creatures. The vast majority of the almost 40,000 known arachnid species have pretty miserable social skills, so they tend keep mostly to themselves.
Two dolphins dead after ingesting synthetic heroin
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 5:48 PM EDT (io9)
Forensics experts say that two Swiss dolphins died of an overdose, presumably after some idiots fed them a synthetic opiate during a two-day rave (there is some dispute as to whether the dolphins' death had anything to do with the rave, as the deaths occurred weeks after the ev …
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