Roundup: Molten Iron Chicken Kimchee in Space

I returned from Antarctica nearly two months ago to find it considerably busier ’round these northern parts. Among the things that almost slipped past:
Dumping iron in the ocean to get carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. It’s premature to do it commercially, and it may never turn out to be a good idea. But we [...]

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There Goes the Neighborhood

File under Not-Cute Baby Pictures #1: Large white shark eats small elephant seal at Ano Nuevo State Park, about 25 miles north of Santa Cruz. (Photo via park ranger-surfer Ziad, via Heathcliff, via GeeVeePee.)

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NYT Hails Properly Coupled Train Sentence

Every once in a while the New York Times runs an article just to see how many jokes it can slip under the radar; today is just such a day.
How else do you explain the most revered newspaper in America dedicating valuable paper (ca. $1,200 a column inch, if I’m not mistaken) to news [...]

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Funny sign alert #5

 
You know you think about it every time you have to ride over the tracks. Or those storm drains with the big slots in them.
(Christchurch, New Zealand)

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Tracker Alerts the Headline Police

Would you read a story about a new advance in in vitro fertilization, whereby an inherited mitochondrial disease is averted through transplantation of a fertilized nucleus?
How about a story about scientists creating the first embryo with three parents?
That’s what I thought. Never mind the scientists, who in one well-reported story, said “it would be [...]

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