Recycled Babies in Scotland
Reborn, born again, recycled, all seems the same to me. There's a baby maker in Foutainhall, Scotland - near Edinburgh, who makes, well, um, babies. Except her babies are not real. For some, they are too much like real babies. They are crafted in vinyl and have become quite popular with collectors and nostalgic grandparents, not to mention parents who ...
Which Country Has the Biggest Oil Supply?
I got this email from a friend. It shed a lot of light on our previous article on North Dakota and the oil prices. Get your hole poker out and tell me what's wrong with this argument. Which Country Has the Biggest Oil Supply? Like you, I've been absolutely blown away by what has happened to the price of a ...
China Gets Okay to Import Ivory of Endangered Elephant
The good news is that China is not likely to abuse its privilege of importing ivory from African elephants which are covered by the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) which made the decision at a meeting in Geneva. NOT! What in the world?! China joins Japan as the only two countries that are permitted to import ...
Beijing May Artificially Change Weather for Olympics
Beijing is pulling out all the stops in order to have clear weather for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics Games. The government says that if bad weather threatens then meteorologists will be asked to step in and change the weather. Whoa! It almost makes me wish for rain, or thunderstorms and heavy winds and such just to ...
Dirty Water, We Need it Clean
"Every day, 1.1 billion people have to wash with, bathe in and drink dirty water. That's the same as the population of North America and Europe. We can't live with that fact. Can you?" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Mv8pauMKc[/youtube] After seeing this video I understood that there are places on Earth were people don't have the time and the power to think about solar power, gas prices or ...
Mars – A Home Far Away from Home
Planetary geologists are guessing that valleys on Mars came from gushes of water resulting from past rainfall or groundwater springs. Theorize, believe, speculate ... they all have the same meaning when it comes right down to it. Scientists so much want to believe that life, as we know it, existed elsewhere that they will jump to any conclusion. And jump they ...
World Bank Concludes Biofuels are Cause of High Food Prices
It's not the high crude oil prices causing high gasoline prices that are driving up food costs. It's not the fault of the US invasion of Iraq and upsetting the oil bucket. It's not even the global warming monster that is causing food shortages, hunger among the poor, increased poverty or social unrest. It's not even the demands of the ...
European Union – Concerned About the Length of Cucumbers and Curvature of Bananas
This story may not need any more words other than the title to make you laugh out loud, but we'll try. Apparently there are standards for the length of the cucumber and for the curvature of bananas and the European Union won't leave it alone. They want to make sure these things are and will be properly regulated. Original image ...
Topless Activists Protest Bear Skin with Bare Skin
We're behind the bears! I know what you wanna see, I know what you like. What's with the dude? Nothing you can say will make me change my mind. What bare skin? I don't believe you are making a statement. The post about 3 topless PETA demonstrators protesting outside KFC generated quite a buzz. Not much sympathy, just buzz and a desire to ...
Three White Lion Cubs Looking for a Home
"I want my mommy!" "Doesn't anybody love us?" "We're hungry!" "I need burping!" "Well, at least we have each other." "Alright guys! Let's stick together." I guess I am naive enough to think that only humans can be so heartless as to turn away their own children. Not so. A white lion in Schloss-Holte Stukenbrock of Germany rejected her three cubs. What's up with that? Let ...
