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 ...
Not All is Happy in Panda Land
Even if there are new pandas on the block born after the earthquake, not all is happy in panda land. It appears that three giant pandas are suffering from post-quake trauma. In a simple incident where a zookeeper tried to hand a bowl of milk to one panda, the metal bowl dropped and crashed making a loud noise and scaring ...
A Shirt Made from Real Fish Scales
Remember the salmon skin bikini? If not, you should. I've been on the look out for one of these for some time now. Well, there's a guy in China, 71-years old, who thinks he's found a way to stay cool. Following through on an idea that he had more than 30 years ago, the man has started making shirts out ...
Hurricane Season Longer, Stormier, Arriving Earlier
Hurricane season this year is expected to be longer, stormier and arrive earlier. Climate scientists are saying that this centuries storms are bigger than last century's because the area of warm water that can support hurricanes is growing larger. The Atlantic Ocean is more hurricane friendly. "There has been an increase in the seasonal length over the last century," Jay ...
Three Topless PETA Demonstrators outside KFC
Where's my camera when I need it? And why don't these girls do their thing at a KFC near me, dang it? Topless demonstrators for PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) were spotted hanging outside a KFC joint in central Sydney. Here birdie, birdie. Here birdie... What you hiding there, honey? You got something to say? Then how about ...
