CBC cutting Canadian icons

First the hockey song and now two iconic journalists.  I’m taking suggestions on who or what you think is next.  Of late, CBC is no stranger to taking the axe to longstanding traditions and things...

Japanese plant blogs and tells

It has been long believed that plants can talk, if only we could learn to understand them.  Well, now plants can blog.  They skipped right over the whole speech thing and went straight online to join the...

Qwitter catches Twitter quitters

Twitter, meet Qwitter, your other half.  Twitter is your life in 140 characters or less, your way to tell the world what you are doing.  Qwitter is the world’s way of telling you that sometimes people...

Yzerman named Executive Director of Team Canada Hockey

The Captain himself, Steve Yzerman will be the new executive director of the Canadian men’s hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics.  He takes over from Wayne Gretzky who held the post for the past two...

Penguins cope with climate change

Our lovable flightless friends down under have proven that they have more going for them than clay-mation cartoons and tuxedo parodies.  We always knew that penguins were cool, but we may have...

Zombies vs. Humans game coming to a campus near you

Bored with video games?  Procrastinating from studying?  Well then maybe you should go and find a game of Humans vs. Zombies near you.  It’s Night of the Living Dead, all day, everyday until...

Fish in Lake Victoria evolving around pollution

Evolution is happening right before our eyes.  Evolution, or at least drastic evidence of change, is something generally considered to happen over hundreds of generations, but the cichlid fish in Africa's...

Fossil of earth's oldest footprints found

Holy footprints Batman!  570 million year old tracks of earth’s early legged walkers have been found in Nevada.  This pushes the advent of walking back 30 million years.  It is believed that land...

EA signs director Zack Snyder

Zack Snyder, the director behind the 2006 movie 300 and the upcoming Watchmen has signed a deal with Electronic Arts (EA) to oversee the creation of three new game titles.  EA will own the intellectual...

Beijing unveils new traffic controls

Beijing has decided to permanently implement some of the stiff traffic controls that it has originally enforced during the August Olympics.  Return to normality following the end of the games has prompted...

Obama for Prime Minister

Canadians want Obama not Harper.  In fact, if Obama ran, polls show that he would win a landslide victory in Canada. "September 23rd Poll shows that Obama has 42% of voter support compared to Harper with 29%....

Japan holds adult diaper fashion show

If you thought diapers were lame, embarrassing or not to be worn over your clothes, you would be wrong on all counts.  On Friday Japan held a diaper fashion show, taking diapers out from under and bringing...

The end of steroids? New device enhances performance in the palm of your hand

New technology out of Stanford gets you to put gloves on instead of taking them off when things heat up.  Two biologists, Dennis Grahn and Craig Heller have designed a device called “the glove” that cools...

Moldova's breakaway region of Trans-Dniester another Georgia?

As we watch the continued developments in Georgia and hear the accusations about who did what to whom and in what order, you can guarantee that another ex-Soviet state is paying close attention. The US and the EU...

US command change in Iraq

Iraq gets a new top dog today as the commander of US forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus, hands over control of American military operations to General Raymond Odierno.  Petraeus becomes the new chief...

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