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Friday music blogging: Bahamas
A few days ago I went to Seattle’s legendary Crocodile to see the band Milo Greene, which I have praised before here in FMB. They were good, but the big discovery of the night was the opener, Bahamas, the Canadian indie project led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Afie Jurvanen, who used to play keyboard and guitar for […]
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Dust Bowl Revisited
By Janet Larsen On October 18, 2012, the Associated Press reported that “a massive dust storm swirling reddish-brown clouds over northern Oklahoma triggered a multi-vehicle accident along a major interstate…forcing police to shut down the heavily traveled roadway amid near blackout conditions.” Farmers in the region had recently plowed fields to plant winter wheat. The […]
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This origami kayak folds to the size of a suitcase
I want one, and, for just $800 on Kickstarter, I can have one.
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‘Bike taxidermy’ makes for the most eco-friendly hunting trophies ever
All the cool of taxidermy; no dead animals involved.
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Ecuador’s dropping 22 tons of poison on the Galapagos to kill 180 million rats
The rats first came to the islands in the 1600s, aboard ships from far away, and on a steady diet of eggs and baby tortoises, lizards, snakes and now-endangered birds species, they multiplied.
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Three battle plans for fixing climate in Obama’s second term
To charge ahead on climate action, Obama could follow one of these three paths to victory, ripped from military history.
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Awesome Scottish guy dresses up as giraffe and does righteous stuff
A Scottish dude dresses up as a giraffe and does nice stuff for people. It sounds weird, but it also sounds kind of like a nice way to spend your time.
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This octopus is so tiny that it snuck into the aquarium undetected
He lived there for nearly a year, secretly snacking on the aquarium's crabs, before being discovered.
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One big step closer to ending mountaintop removal
One of Appalachia’s biggest coal companies is getting out of the mountaintop-removal business. In a landmark announcement, Patriot Coal, one of Appalachia’s three largest mountaintop removal companies, has signed a settlement agreement with the Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy committing to end its practice of large-scale surface mining in […]
