The story was published by the Washington Post: Testimony that the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned to give yesterday to a Senate committee about the impact of climate change on health was significantly edited by the White House, according to two sources familiar with the…
Lots of depictions of continent movement can be found here. PALEOMAP Project "is to illustrate the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years." Remember when you could throw a stone from Florida…
Here's a post summarizing the original versions of seven popular fairy tales. Some gory stuff, indeed: What is creepier than kids, parents, evilness, sorceresses, wolves, and cannibalism? Before the stories were ripped from their horror roots, they were just right for scary, gory films. The early days of fairy tales…
In the Bible, Noah is said to have collected animals two by two, to fill the Ark and save them from the flood, so here's my question: how did he catch them? Oh, sure, catching a sloth might not be too tough, but how did Noah catch pairs of more…
Here's a heartwarming story about some of the insanity that followed in the wake of 9/11. We see this kind of thing all the time, in the news, on tv shows, in movies. A mistake compounded into tragedy by the utter fear and panic induced under extreme conditions. One could…