Doomsday vault to avert world famine
If all agriculture is wiped out, all we have to do is make our way to Spitsbergen, Norway, and pick up some seeds: New Scientist News – Doomsday vault to avert world famine
Early Man Was Hunted by Birds
Now are you afraid of birds? Researcher: Early Man Was Hunted by Birds – Yahoo! News
Stardust returns.
“Stardust,” NASA’s comet dust-collecting satellite, will return to Earth Jan. 15. Its flight path will take it over northern CA and NV, but should be visible almost as far south as Las Vegas and as far north as Portland (though it will be pretty low in the sky at the northern and southern extremes).
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Mistaken identity.
Today after preschool a mom I haven’t seen before is putting her son into her car. She greets Clara effusively as we walk by on the sidewalk: “Oh, hello, sweetheart! I had so much fun talking with your grandma last week!” I look quizzically at the woman. “Actually,” I say, “Clara’s grandma hasn’t be
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Next time when I’m a baby.
Clara wanted to read her new book Clara and Asha before bedtime. As I’m bringing it over to the bed, she says, “Next time when I’m a baby, I don’t want you to name me Clara. I don’t like that name any more. I want you to name me something else.” Me: “Oh yeah? What […]
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All the news.
Hypothesis: Over time, BoingBoing and The New York Times will gradually converge in style and coverage, until they are nearly indistinguishable. I’m not as crazy as you may think. For this to happen, the Times would have to start acting more blog-like. Many newspapers and magazines are already doing
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Google Keynote – Engadget
Best coverage of a trade show keynote I’ve ever seen. Google Keynote with Robin Williams – Engadget
Comment spam poetry.
The following “comment” appeared on one of my posts recently. Bizarrely poetic. Where the heck do they get this stuff? The puissant Lord was somewhat of the form of Vishti.[1828] He besworne in some respects the biscainers of the sub-title, and in some a mass of strong-blooded phenternine. We inspan
N.M.’s Largest Crocodile Classified – Yahoo! News
Now there’s a hell of a eulogy! “He had a good life,” he said. “He did whatever he wanted to do. He probably didn’t have any natural predators and terrorized the New Mexico seashore.” N.M.’s Largest Crocodile Classified – Yahoo! News
Rocket Bike
It does help to be a rocket scientist if you want to build one. A Real Rocket Bike – Popular Science