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Seven years after Katrina, Gulf Coast rail could return bigger than before
Amtrak suspended portions of its Sunset Limited route after Hurricane Katrina washed away swaths of rail. Now mayors from New Orleans to Florida want to bring back more trains than before.
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Now your dank, squalid Man Cave can smell like a national park
This product may be a perfect metaphor for the modern condition: It’s an air freshener that will fill your TV room with chemical compounds that mimic the scent of the national parks, so you can experience a simulacrum of fresh air without ever having to go outside. Hooray for the future!
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This newly discovered fish has its genitals on its head
In the category of “hats you probably shouldn’t wear to the Royal Wedding,” Phallostethus cuulong — a new species of fish discovered in Vietnam — has its genitalia on its head. I really want that to mean that its penis is dongling from its forehead, like some kind of anglerfish/dildo hybrid, but in fact the genitals of […]
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China’s brand-new baby panda is the result of actual panda sex
Fans of (slightly weird) adorableness are having a good week, as a panda named Yuan Yuan at Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base in southwest China gave birth to her fourth cub.
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They’re genetically modifying goats to create human breast milk substitute
You know that human breast milk is very important for babies’ development. (If you don’t know this, go ostentatiously bottle-feed a baby doll near a farmers market! It will be fun, I promise.) But for various reasons, sometimes new moms can’t breastfeed — they need medication that shows up in breast milk, for instance, or […]
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What is this talking otter trying to tell us?
I never realized this before, but it turns out otters can talk, and furthermore they sound just like Ike from South Park. This one also seems mildly irked by human inability to comprehend her language. What is she trying to tell us?
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Number of bees in Queens man’s yard exceeds population of Queens
New York legalized beekeeping in 2010, but that does not mean that it was cool with city officials when they discovered that a guy in Queens named Yi Gin Chen had 45 beehives in his yard, containing 3 million bees. That’s more bees than there are people who live in Queens.
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Rush Limbaugh says Obama manipulated hurricane forecasts to delay GOP convention
The conservative radio host spins out a truly wacky conspiracy theory.
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Viewer Trust Requires Forecasting the Facts
Why do people watch the local weather report, anyway? That was the question floating just below the surface of last week’s 40th annual broadcast meteorology conference in Boston. Just like their print counterparts, local news stations are being buffeted by the winds of online innovation, and weather is particularly vulnerable. Today, detailed forecasts are just […]
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Record drought sends cattle hoofin’ East [VIDEO]
American expansion took ranchers West. Now the drought is forcing them back East in search of greener pastures.
