A room at San Diego hotel the Pantai Inn will definitely set you back a few bucks. But this baby sea lion didn't let her lack of funds keep her away from a stay in the lap of luxury -- she took matters into her own flippers and made herself comfortable on one of the hotel's deck chairs. Seems like this pup definitely knows how to have a good time, and how to yell like the dickens when The Man decides the party's over.

A fishmonger in China was cutting up a fish when his knife struck something metal. No, it wasn't a fish pacemaker or a fish peace medallion. It was a bomb. The squid, which was only about three feet long, had swallowed a three-pound bomb.

The bomb is thought to be rather old and they can't tell where it's from, but it is still fully operational. Officials say the squid ate it thinking it was food, which is reassuring because it would be terrible to think the squid ate it thinking it was a bomb. That said, squid generally eat stuff like shrimp. And I've seen some big shrimp in my day, but not that big. And there's never a bomb-size shrimp special at Red Lobster, although it is in keeping with its brand.

A rare giraffe -- named a Rothschild giraffe after British zoologist Lord Walter Rothschild-- was recently born at a Connecticut zoo. This is exciting because a) Connecticut is generally uninteresting, and b) it is always exciting when endangered animals repopulate themselves, even if only slightly. The giraffe's mom is named Petal, and the baby giraffe, as yet unnamed, is already six feet tall.

Apparently, this child-of-Petal is very curious. She likes to hang out with people. BRB moving to Connecticut to sneak into the zoo and cuddle the giraffe.

Here's a video of her standing up for the first time:

There are only 400 -- that's 400, a number you can count to in less than five minutes -- turtles in the whole entire world that can call themselves Astrochelys yniphora, or ploughshare turtles (if turtles could speak, or could in fact do anything other than eat lettuce with stupid expressions on their faces). So naturally, since humans are perhaps even dumber than how dumb turtles look eating, a man took it upon himself to try to smuggle 54 of these turtles through the Bangkok airport. That's 13 percent of the ploughshare turtles in the world.

The New Museum has launched an exhibit on 1993. This is depressing for those of us who were fully adults then, but should be fun for people filled with innocent and childish wonder what that time was all about. In order to promote the exhibit, the ad agency Droga5 has come up with a pretty cool idea: You can call the number 1-855-FOR-1993 from any of the 5,000 sad, forlorn, nearly useless phones in the city, and you can talk to the past.

Have you always wanted to live in a geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller's famous efficient shelter structure? You haven't? Well, there's some good evidence that you're right, because an Oklahoma man is offering a sum of $100,ooo to anyone willing to take his off his hands. Which can only mean that owning the thing is a pain in the ass somewhere beyond the realm of human comprehension.

Organic baby food makes up about 10 percent of the $1.4 billion spent on baby food and snacks, maybe less because so many people buy it and more because it costs like twice as much as regular baby food. A recent study raises the question: Is this money you really need to spend?

A 2012 study in the Annals of Internal Medicine looked at whether organic foods were safer or healthier than conventional foods. The study, which included pregnant women and children, found no evidence that organic food was superior to conventional food, in terms of nutrition. But it did find a 30 percent lower risk of pesticide contamination in organic food. Which ... sounds like a desirable quality in a baby food, from where we're sitting.

We already know that the Weather Channel CEO actually believes in climate change, and now he's putting his programming where his mouth is, with a new series that will take a look at the ways that scientists and others are tackling the planet's little weather problem. Each week, the show's host visits researchers who are coming up with creative, and in some cases cray-cray, solutions to rescue us hapless citizens from the havoc we're wreaking on our world.

Every 13 to 17 years, the Magicicada come. That's the name of a particular genus of periodical cicada, but you probably know them as "what the hell is that racket." They make a lot of noise, is what I'm saying. The last time the cicadas came I remember complaining about it a lot. This year, I am more mature. And that's why I'm excited that, thanks to radio station WNYC and a simple kit that you can buy for $80, this year I will be putting aside my annoyance to instead eagerly track the arrival of the cicada brood.

Finally, science is good for something. British chef and all around food celebrity Heston Blumenthal, on his television show Heston's Fantastical Food, ran an experiment to prove that chocolate-covered biscuits dipped in tea actually taste better than the chocolate covered biscuits not dunked in tea.