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I LARFED MY GUTS OUT

… and I didn’t even have time to look all of them, which is why I’m ‘varking:
41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments

BATHE IN THE IDIOCY

I’d like to point out to Duane Kimme, in his Dec. 20 letter to the editor, that every statement he made was false. Natural selection cannot select for what does not already exist in the genome, making it an elimination of the weakest and not a creator of additional information.
No new biological system can have […]

CONTROVERSY!

From the Flickr LOLscience pool.

RADIO: CLIMATE AND FOOD PRODUCTION

Recommended listening, if you live on Earth. (It’s about half an hour long.)

You can’t see it and you can’t feel it, but ozone, one of the greenhouse gases associated with climate change, is causing a decrease of 20% to the soya crop in the United States of America.
Soya is the second biggest crop in the […]

WORRY NO MORE!

“Where we put our dollars is the difference between human extinction and an exciting new eco-lifestyle!”

Greensumption (YouTube, via getpost)

PHOSPHORESCENT FOOD

“We don’t hear a lot of complaints about glowing seafood, but then people rarely look at their shrimp and crab in the dark.”
—Andy Richards, seafood department manager, West Seattle Thriftway
Bonus: 1998 FDA article on glowing seafood

WATER RAGE

A man has been killed in a fight over watering his lawn in drought-stricken Australia in an apparent case of water rage.

TWICE AS BIG AS TEXAS

Graphic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (San Francisco Chronicle)

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Q And one more. You mentioned that there are health benefits to climate change. Could you describe some of those?
MS. PERINO: Sure. In some cases, there are — look, this is an issue where I’m sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true that many people […]

SLOWMERGENCY

The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion. All summer, more than a year after the drought began, fountains sprayed and football fields were watered, prisoners got two showers a day and Coca-Cola’s bottling plants chugged along at full strength. On an 81-degree day this month, an […]