Fukushima'd Monday

The horror of Fukushima keeps on giving.

Immigrant children who were sent back are being killed.

How lizards regenerate their tails: researchers discover genetic 'recipe':

By understanding the secret of how lizards regenerate their tails, researchers may be able to develop ways to stimulate the regeneration of limbs in humans. Now, a team of researchers from Arizona State University is one step closer to solving that mystery. The scientists have discovered the genetic “recipe” for lizard tail regeneration, which may come down to using genetic ingredients in just the right mixture and amounts 

Lizards?... might want to be careful...

George Bush.

Bank of America gets to pay back 17bn over questionable mortgages.  Do they get to go back and help those people they drove out of their houses and into poverty, too?

Bigger spiders a good thing?  I don't think so....

A cop discusses Ferguson and the behavior of the police.

Oh please, let this be true! The Twilight of Antonin Scalia

One half-hour to change a governor's mind about climate change.  And they don't think it worked.

How much you can save when you stop buying shit.

How amazingly transparent the CIA is....

How do you pronounce pecan?

California drought, before and after comparisons.

Weirdness and beyond

The weird things we've found to eat.  Can you imagine how hungry we had to be to figure out how to eat them?

Wells Fargo.. foreclosing people one client at a time.

Hobby Lobby... going after birth control.  The definition of rape culture.

Anybody have an invention they'd like to have produced?

Women in the gaming industry.

Should we worry if the engineered bacteria making jet fuel (which is fantastic) escapes into the wild?

Ten cooking tips for the kitchen.

Maybe there's a Super Earth out there too?

And speaking of weird things... a spider as big as your face.  That's one more country I'm not visiting....

Friday frivolities

Victory for bees... in Europe.

Knowing what is broken.

Post a secret.

Dear god... goats with spider web genes in their milk.

The USA... the land of allergies.

What the human body can do... and why we keep doing things we shouldn't do to it.

More cat... suddenly visiting the fishes.

Friday Cat blogging...

But instead of a furry cat.... have a fuzzy spider!

Blog sprinkles

The manners and etiquette of President Barack Obama. (The pictures are charming.)

And Obama's talent for nuance.

Yoo who, exactly? Mapaghimagsik shows us. And one woman who saw what SERE torture training did to her boyfriend.

I knew it! Limbaugh is a space alien! Mysterious blob found near dawn of time.

Conficker worm is still lurking:

The Conficker worm's creators are evidently toying with ways to put the pervasive computer virus to work firing off spam or spreading rogue anti-virus applications called "scareware."

More on the plastic continents we are creating in the Pacific Ocean:

There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world's oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up.

Blue Girl from They Gave Us A Republic warns us what might be next:

I can only assume that a significant story about wildlife is barreling down the pike Look at it this way...First the republicans mocked volcano monitoring, and then Mt. Redoubt rumbled to life. Then they slashed flu pandemic preparedness from the budget and the swine flu made a comeback. That the republicans have decided to mock wildlife spending this week does not bode well for the cranes and snow leopards and other endangered species next week.

Ways to survive a pandemic? Wash your hands, don't hang out in crowds.

Fox works hard on spreading fear!! and panic!!:



Swine flu: what did you expect?

Hawaiian spider insists on being friendly:



I don't care how much it smiles, I'm still getting the fly swatter!

Homeless hobbits.


Bush:

War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished and it will be no defense to say, “I was just following orders.”

Alrighty then!!

But... the Bush administration thought that torture was a really good idea!