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Lab-grown meat is this week’s Green Thing. Using tissue engineering techniques, it would generate up to 96% lower greenhouse gas emissions per pound.
Morford: In 2050, the year we all eat each other, Mark looks at the horrors of nine billion humans occupying the planet 40 years from now.
Over 2/3 of the total national debt is from the last three Republican administrations --more than twice as much as all other presidents combined.
Income tax rates for the top brackets from 1913 to 2008. As you can see, the rich are being soaked.
You are not going to believe this letter. It’s called Conservative’s View - God vs Science. His “Conservative Poems” are pretty good for a laugh, as well.
2012.
Animal of the Week: Ghost ants, which change color based on the food they are eating.
The Republican wreckage. You now have permission to do what you’ve wanted to do since the year 2000. Call Republican voters unAmerican until they stop voting Republican and start caring about what happens to this country.
Hump day musical interlude: The Red Clay Ramblers sing The Merchant's Lunch.
Trivia (5 Biomes points): Which fairy tale does this image represent?
Diverting your payroll taxes from public purposes to private gain. If you work for a big company like Wal-Mart, this is what may be happening to your money.
xkcd takes a look at the mimic octopus.
The bay was full of crab larvae yesterday, and after a few hours in the water I spent a while picking them off the hairs on my arms and legs. Click to get frightened.
Washington isn’t broken, the Republican Party is.
Tuesday Monday coonhound blogging: I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this before, but at one time Creole was being trained as a reading education assistance dog. We passed 13 out of the 14 tests on the first try, but I had to pull her out of the program after she was terrorized by a child while she was locked in her crate (my fault. I wasn’t paying attention.) One incident and I can’t completely trust her around kids any longer. She’s extremely situational.
Amy Winehouse joins the 27 club.
This week’s Green Thing is recycling a bottle, flashmob style.
The rise of the religious right in the Republican Party.
Meet Bambi and Thumper.
Cool site of the week: Murdoch Alert, by Firefox, shows a warning bar whenever you land on a Murdoch Family-controlled website. I haven’t mentioned the whole Murdoch saga, but I’ve been following it with tons of schadenfreude. Balloon Juice has been doing a pretty good job of keeping us up to date. I wouldn’t bet on it, but wouldn’t it be great if this ended up destroying the fake news network/GOP propaganda tool?
Wiki on fox hunting, the sport of ignobles.
You can help stop fox hunting here.
Why Fox New is unAmerican.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: The croquet mascot and the red ball again. She had to drag the bench along with her in order to reach it. Click it.
One Day on Earth is a movie shot by 16,000 filmmakers in every country in the world, all done on the same day. Watch a trailer.
Play! Octopus Games, by the Crossword Blog of the New York Times.
Albino Monday: Lightning Medicine Cloud, a leucistic buffalo calf, was born recently at the Lakota Ranch in Texas. It’s a one in ten million occurrance and he’s the first leucistic male calf born in 150 years.
There’s a reason why we should eat kangaroo meat instead of cows, but I don’t think I could stomach it. The reason we should is they have the same diet as cattle, but produce less methane.
Super Scholar has put together a list of the twenty most influential scientists alive today.
This week’s niche blog is Awesome People Hanging Out Together.
Pet Corner: Dozer, a three-year-old goldendoodle, got through his owner’s invisible fence and ran the Maryland half marathon solo.
Try out True Knowledge, a new internet answer engine.
Animal of the week: “Wisdom”, a sixty-year-old albatross, is a new mom. And they survived the Japanese earthquake, which occurred during her nesting season and killed about 110,000 of her rookery-mates’ chicks.
Thinking about starting a family? This is about the best advice I can give.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: The croquet mascot captures the red ball.
Republicans and their debt-happy policies.
Other than as part of a costume (like being in a wedding party), I’ve never worn a tie in my life. What a weird thing to put around your neck. Here’s a machine that will tie a tie for you if you’re unfortunate enough to have a life that requires wearing one.