Nepalese Tigers Figure Out How To Avoid Rush Hour
Ev’ryone el-us is jealous Via Kate Shaw at Ars Technica: We don’t necessarily need to separate human and…
Two Border Collies Conduct an EPA Cleanup
Good boy Via Science Now, the EPA has found that letting two dogs run around a beach improved the quality…
Would Breaking Bad’s Czech Meth Scheme Work?
Two lessons for Walter White: European meth users are locavores, and there's not that many of them anyway.
Happy(ish) World Veil Day
It’s International Hijab Day. The event began in 2004 to protest the French government’s ban on wearing the…
Rats, Enlisted
Anti-mining NGOs have known for awhile that a properly-trained rat can smell explosives and signal the threat’s location…
NASA Discovers Strangely Familiar Planet
Image: NASA NASA’s Kepler probe has discovered a solar system orbiting twin suns. Thrilled scientists announced the discovery of…
Sharks’ Teeth Are Like Our Teeth
A team of German researchers writing in the Journal of Structural Biology have concluded that human teeth are as…
Terrifying Dots.
This graphic, based on World Bank statistics, is supposed to illustrate a global trend toward fewer children and…
UK Study of Racial Discrimination Curiously Racial
A study of bias in immigration policy by researchers at the UK’s Bristol University concludes that treatment of…
Who’s Afraid of WCIT-12?
As obscure government meetings go, a mid-winter conclave of telegraph agency bureaucrats feels about as distant from power…