This guy likes his WaterPik a little too much; check out his hilarious review.
Georgia is lobbying hard to become The Most Backwards State In The Union by adding disclaimer stickers on evolution to science textbooks. Thankfully, the father of an elementary school student is suing along with the ACLU.
Follow-up: Environmentalists are protesting W’s “Healthy Forest Initiative,” because as I feared it appears that W is taking this initiative as an opportunity to give lumber companies almost free rein. I knew he didn’t know what “judicious” meant.
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Those wacky Thais! The newest fad in Thailand is raising giant African cockroaches as pets. To me it just sounds like a bad punchline to a joke: “We were so poor, all we could afford for pets were cockroaches.”
The Washington Post now has an Electronic Edition that is an exact digital copy of the entire paper available online. You can use your web browser or Adobe Acrobat to read it, and it is fully searchable and zoomable. I started a two-week free trial, which I assume to mean that it will not be free forever, but it might be worth it…
Along the same lines, the awesome Newseum has a feature that let’s you see 119 current front pages from newspapers in 23 countries as well as an
I hate it when posts get corrupted like above. To continue… as well as an archive of front pages in the aftermath of 9/11/01.
Some opponents of using Yucca Mountain, Nevada as a nuclear waste repository site have come up with a particularly hare-brained idea: use ICBMs to transport the nuclear waste to the Moon. Even before reading the article I could think of so many things wrong with this stupid idea; I’ll confine myself to just a couple. First of all, there’s the obvious issue of a launch disaster that could conceivably contaminate a much larger area than anything that might possibly happen at the Yucca Mountain site. Secondly, I think that humans might like to visit the Moon again without getting irradiated. Although their plan calls for precisely targeting a crater and burrowing the waste into soft regolith, that’s a lot to ask out of a system that’s supposed to be cheaper and more reliable than earth-based solutions. Granted, the moon has no atmosphere with which to distribute radioactive material from the crash site area, but it’s not like a missile slamming into the moon is going to bury itself nicely under 30 feet of soil without any sort of explosion! Designing any sort of terminal guidance system to automatically land and bury the waste will almost certainly be prohibitively expensive. Although this plan adroitly sidesteps the NIMBY syndrome encountered any place even studied as a possible disposal site, the potential for permanently contaminating our nearest satellite neighbor makes this a pretty dumb idea in my opinion.
