The Evolution of Plant Minds

     I was listening this past weekend to an NPR story about the history of chewing gum (see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600&ft=1&f=1032). ...

Megamouth Shark: Rare Fish Caught, Eaten in Philippines

A megamouth shark has been caught and eaten by fishermen in the Phillipines.  The rare fish is one of the most endangered species on earth according to the World Wildlife Fund, with only 40 others recorded in...

Detained Taiwanese ex-president Chen on hunger strike

After former Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian was put into police custody on Tuesday afternoon, he has refused to eat anything denying any wrongdoing. Chen was questioned over accused corruption scandals...

Beijing cat clean-up

Beijing is all geared up to host the Olympics game and welcoming people from all over the world but it is bad time for Cats in the capital city. " Beijing is undergoing a massive street clean-up operation to...

Government launches leftover plea to fight world food shortage

A new report on the growing global food crisis will call for people in developed countries to stop throwing away edible leftovers."FAMILIES can help ease world food shortages by being less wasteful, a Government report will claim today. As Gordon Brown arrives at the G8...

Eating insects: save the planet and munch a moth

As food prices continue to rise, and the world gets hotter, we as humans need to find more ways to conserve our planet and help our species adapt.Well, eating insects could be the answer. I don't know if I...

USDA: Most recalled beef has probably been eaten

Here's your daily OH MY GOD, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE alert:"Federal officials are trying to track down the 143 million pounds of beef recalled Sunday, but they say that most of it has probably been eaten."

Dragon causes panic - reports man eaten

This just goes to show that while we think our lives are in danger living in the urban jungle, for some their lives are at threat from much more real dangers."The media in PNG is abuzz with reports that a dragon is on the loose, with the potential to kill anyone who crosses...

Christmas Season: 'Date-rape' drug found in Chinese toy

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Really Now! Does this not surprise anyone, anymore?One can only guess why any country would allow imports of any Chinese product nowadays, knowing full well the...

Mexico: Horror Novelist Eats Girlfriend (or did he)

Halloween is coming so tis the season. Mexican Cops Arrest Cannibalism Suspect"MEXICO CITY (AP) - An aspiring horror novelist was arrested after police discovered his girlfriend’s torso in his closet, a leg in...

Fish Meets Bikini in the Fishkini

"The fashion market has a new addition, a bikini made from the skin of the tilapia fish. A Thai designer has thought of a new way to use the skin of a fish that is usually thrown away, by making it into a...

I Had A Dream

 "I woke up the other day and wasn’t feeling too good . I thought maybe it was that Nathans hot dog I ate before going to sleep the night before. I went for the plop plop fizz fizz real quick. The pain...

Glamorous Art couple in double suicide

"On the evening of July 10, rising art star Jeremy Blake returned to his New York apartment, a converted rectory at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery that he shared with his girlfriend, Theresa Duncan. The couple, extremely devoted and still very much in love after 12 years,...

Pet spider kills its owner

"A MAN who lived in his own “zoo” of lizards and insects was fatally bitten by a pet black widow spider — then eaten by the other creepy-crawlies. Police broke in to Mark Voegel’s apartment to find spider Bettina along with 200 others, several snakes, a gecko lizard...

28 Weeks Later parodies the Iraq war effort...in London...with zombies

I really liked the first movie in this series, 28 Days Later. It took the zombie genre and boiled it down to its essentials, making it beautiful and stylish and about love and family and how we look after one...

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