Well, it’s been a while since I posted, but sometimes you just see something you need to get out there.

It’s only when you read things like this that it really hits home: Finland is totally lame. And as I’ve said a million times: Don’t even get me fucking started on Finnish aquatic scientists.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish researcher is to study fish in an aquarium while a rock group performs nearby, to see if [...]

Apparently a captive hammerhead shark has given birth to a pup without the benefit of sperm.
Incredible, isn’t it? Baby sharks are called pups? WTF?
I’d have started worshiping it immediately, but something bad happened.
READ ON

This is interesting, though it’s at such a high level it’s hard to get your head around.

Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government’s blessing want to scrap all that and start over.
The idea may seem unthinkable, even absurd, but [...]

This is priceless. Makes you wonder what in hell the F.D.A. wouldn’t approve:
The F.D.A. ordered the makers of Ambien, Lunesta and 11 other commonly used sleep medications to issue strong new label warnings about those risks, and to produce brochures about safe use of the drugs. Pharmacies would give the brochures to patients when prescriptions [...]

Here’s an odd piece of news:
Scientists at a U.S. military research facility have developed a method of training honeybees to sniff out explosives, an advancement they say will protect troops and citizens at home and abroad. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico said on Monday they have trained the bees to [...]

A nice environmental piece, although the message is maybe a bit didactic…
OK, a lot didactic…
OK, I’ve heard subtler sermons from Pope Benedict…
But people, it’s all true, and it looks nice.
WATCH

Here’s a new reason to hate excessive cell phone use: a new study suggests that heavy use of mobile phones may damage men’s fertility.
Researchers found those men who used a phone for four hours or more a day had fewer sperm and those they had moved less well and were of poorer quality.

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Greenpeace has launched a site going after Apple for its environmental practices, which are apparently particularly bad. I find it interesting that they bend over backwards to suggest that Apple’s a great company, and that they love Apple. That says a lot about Apple’s brand power as somehow “nicer” than Microsoft/Dell/etc.
If its environmental practices really [...]

Here at Bloggerton, there isn’t really a unifying theme or a set of issues, and I certainly feel as though I’ve left my overtly political blogging days behind. So these days, I’m tending to avoid getting wound up — at least in public — about stuff like this.
But damn it, man…
From today’s NY Times:
Biologists [...]