i love this idea: We let you loan to the working poor Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of […]

Call Me Fishmeal.: iPhone’s AJAX SDK: No, thank you. Seed: Loopy Logic: Moebius Strip Riddle Solved at Last Why the disappearance of the honeybees isn’t the end of the world. – By Heather Smith – Slate Magazine Stranger Fruit: Manta birth caught on video The Science of Gaydar – New Research on Everything From Voice […]

it’s true: you can get, easily, a pirated copy of the new harry potter book. as was pointed out over at boing-boing, it’s amazing the lengths media companies will go to in order to prevent these sorts of leaks from happening, and it’s incredible how they never work. you can’t keep information secret anymore: the […]

yesterday i got trog back from the wonderful people who took him while i was to be in new zealand. i missed him soooo much, and it’s nice to have him back. i can’t believe how much he’s matured in the year he’s been gone!

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Screw that, it’s been tried already, that’s what the “brights” movement was about. It (mostly) failed because of attitudes like mine. I’m not a bright, I’m an atheist, damn it. I’m proud to be an atheist, I’m proud that I’ve been able to resist the natural human tendency of leaning on supernatural explanations where the […]

British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the area to sow panic. BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | British blamed for Basra badgers Technorati Tags: badger, badgerbadger, […]

A Russian hunter traipsing through Russia’s remote Arctic Yamalo-Nenetsk region in May noticed what he thought was a reindeer carcass sticking out of the damp snow. On closer inspection, the “reindeer” turned out to be a 40,000-year-old baby mammoth, perfectly encased in ice. The six-month-old female mammoth is the most well-preserved example yet found of […]

…parents who were blind to their child’s treatment status observed significant improvement in their child’s core ADHD symptoms, as well as reductions in cognitive problems and oppositional behavior. By the end of 30 weeks, the magnitude of this improvement was substantial, and not dissimilar from what is often seen in medication treatment studies. As noted […]

I felt totally lost. So what did I do? What any other woman with ADD does who feels inept in the kitchen: I walked around in circles, pretending to be helpful while studying the magic of these women. Ok, so where am I going with all this? As I was studying these moms, I also […]

The most complete skeleton of an extinct Dodo, Raphus cucullatus, ever found was discovered recently in the highlands of Mauritius, an island located in the Indian Ocean. Because this skeleton was preserved intact and isolated in a cave, it appears that it might provide an excellent DNA source for numerous scientific studies, according to the […]

Biologists who inspected the squid said it weighed some 550 pounds (250 kilograms) and stretched 26 feet (8 meters) from head to tentacle—about as long as a school bus. But the beast might have been even longer when it was alive, because the tentacles appeared to be badly damaged. “It’s a whopper,” Genefor Walker-Smith, curator […]