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Gorgeous wave photos is the subject of this Saturday’s slide show.
This week’s niche blog is about the world’s most expensive things.
Watch a trailer for Born to Be Wild, a new documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman. It’s an IMAX film about orphaned animals being returned to the wild.
For people who don’t want to get their shoes wet.
Pet Corner: Lily's Kitchen, in London, is a restaurant for dogs.
Geek stuff: Geeks are Sexy has a collection of photos from last summer's Comics Con.
This is a must-see video explaining how the global food market starves the poor.
iPod Shuffle:
Trivia (12 Biomes points): What’s this?
Hundreds of anti-jokes. They’re mostly funnier than real ones.
A sea turtle accidentally caught off Argentina had this much plastic in its gut.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: Creole watches Hamlet eat, but she doesn't dare go near the bowl.
Now we’re cookin’: The history of the TV dinner.
Thirteen things that do not make sense.
Putting terrorism and health care in perspective.
Albino Monday: With a price of $500 on its pelt, this melanistic wolf probably didn’t survive this winter.
Re-discovered records of Mediterranean marine life have filled in a 200-year gap in fish population data (thanks Dave).
Twenty-six troubling stats about the United States.
Posh Nosh, episode I.
This week’s Green Thing is ten things you can do to help bees.
Morford: Please step away from the fear.
Six terrifying ways crows are way smarter than you think. Here's one that uses car traffic to crack walnuts.
Saturday’s slide show is about some magnificent dolphins from around the world.
Now we’re cookin’: Doughnut bites with bacon sugar (via jcwinnie).
Katie wants to know the answer to Wednesday's trivia. All of the countries are statistically sure to be headed towards an extinction of organized religion.
Cool site of the week: Insects created from human hairs.
Lennart Green and his card tricks are a lot of fun. Stick it out through the boring first couple of minutes.
Spillionaires, the parasites that profited off the BP oil spill while those actually effected got shafted.
The Skepdic's piece on chiropractic medicine.
There’s this set of artwork featuring Japanese cityscapes with monster-sized wildlife, but is it just me or are the paintings really lousy?
Animal of the week: Komodo dragon, the only reptile to still rule the land. The saliva contains about fifty species of pathogenic bacteria, and a bitten prey will slowly die of blood poisoning. The komodo can smell the dying animal up to six miles away. Here’s is a pretty disturbing video of one that bit a water buffalo ten times its size, and then followed the mammal for six weeks waiting for it to die.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: This shot of Creole (on the left) was chosen as the top photo of the week in the Newport Daily News, although you can't access their galleries without a free subscription.
I’m sure everyone has seen the dolphin and cat playing together, but it’s still really adorable.
Albino Monday: Hans sends in this beautiful link to a leucistic red-tail hawk.
Raj sends in this cute video of a tortoise helping another tortoise get right side up. What they don’t show is the helpful guy flipping the other one on its back in the first place. The “help” he gives is just a tortoise’s instinct to push something over. (Maybe I’m over-analyzing this and should just enjoy the show.)
Top ten films of the 1990’s, by year.
The World as I See It is an essay by Albert Einstein.
Saving orphaned bats from last January’s floods in Australia.
This week’s Green Thing are solar panels that work in the dark.
The do’s and don’ts of gift receiving.
The global debt clock.
iPod Shuffle:
What wiped out the ice age giants?
In 1971, astronaut Stuart Roosa took hundreds of seeds from various plants with him on the Apollo 14 mission. When he returned he planted these “moon trees” around the world. Many are still alive, and you can locate them here.
A newly discovered species of snub-nosed monkey sneezes when it rains.
