January 2010
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September 2009
1 post
To Casket Or Not To Casket? →
One Of America’s Great Field Biologists Thinks About Burial by Robert Krulwich
This is a sexton, or burying beetle. It’s a little critter, about the size of a bumble bee, and it can (and will, with the help of a mate) take that much bigger and very dead shrew and get it very quickly underground.
Freeze Me, Blast Me, Shatter Me
He says that there are already companies trying...
October 2008
1 post
http://hellotxt.com/v/NlTO - wondering what the Numa Numa song + Rihianna + T.I. = …?
August 2008
1 post
Sleeping Lion + Hippo + Dog?
wondering how a hippo singing The Lion Sleeps Tonight while a dog dances can still be so amusing…?
[watch]
July 2008
5 posts
“There is no off position on the genius switch”
– David Letterman
Who knew there was a word for... "muricide"
Mouse-killing behavior in rats: muricide
Rats can, and do, kill mice, a behavior known as muricide. Muricide is a form of predatory behavior: rats hunt, kill and eat mice.