I can't help but use my “Digital Footprints” tag on this story! “The landscape depicted corresponds exactly to the surrounding geography,” she said. “Complete with herds of ibex marked on one of the mountains visible from the cave itself.” The research, which is published in the latest edition of the Journal of Human Evolution, furthers […]
A pretty fun Ask MetaFilter question asks what are the most strange yet enjoyable food and flavour combinations you know? Here's a few samples…– ham and peanut butter– cheese and brown sugar– lemonade with salt and pepper (popular in India apparently)– lemonade with iced tea– half grapefruit, sprinkled with cinnamon and briefly microwaved– garlic and […]
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Posted 17 July 2009
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You love celebrity gossip, admit it. And when I need my fix, I visit What Would Tyler Durden Do (wwtdd.com) which has some of the funniest snarky comments you'll find on the Internet (that's a pretty high bar right there!) A recent post about the “celebrity” mother of the octuplets in California caught my eye […]
The flip side of my interest in the idea of Peak Oil is stories like this one.
This slideshow won a recent competition for “Best Slideshow” on Slideshare… THIRST View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design crisis)
This video, from the web site “Why Doesn't God Heal Amputees?“, poses some provocative questions. Or perhaps we should just be calling for a Truce on Religion? (Oh, and I found an answer for Question #8 as a start.)
This story's a month old now but I'm not sure how many people saw it – a scientist who studied bacteria for 44 000 generations (since 1988) has observed the bacteria mutating and after 33 000 generations, one of these mutations led to them evolving a new way to eat. Out of the blue, their […]
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Posted 08 July 2008
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No, not the catchy Feist song… Instead, “Saskaboom” was the name given to a feature that CBC's “The National” aired last night on Saskatchewan and our booming economy. The piece included a feature on Weyburn and the impact of the oil sector on the local economy. So if you want a taste of the city […]
Peak Oil is a theory that is increasingly relevant as the price of oil and gasoline continue to skyrocket. It was first proposed in the 1950's by an American geoscientist named M. King Hubbert who worked for Shell in Texas and correctly predicted that the supplies of oil were limited in the United States and […]
Pace is babbling up a storm these days (what's the line? “You spend the first few months of their lives waiting for them to talk and the next eighteen years wishing they would stop!” ) with lots of “da da”, “ga ga”, “blah blah, blah” (seriously!) and grunting noises. So I did some research (okay, […]
