Looks like it was UN workers who caused the cholera outbreak in Haiti after all.

Could have sworn that was just a conspiracy theory, but, you know, evidence.

Not sure what to say about this. Interesting to note that they are more popular among the ladies, the men apparently thinking that drinking horse semen might make them gay for horses or something.

Get ready for some science talk: Young male dolphins don’t have thumbs. So when they’re sexually frustrated, they can’t just play Mass Effect and/or jerk off like normal people. (Though they do have prehensile penises, so you’d think they could figure SOMETHING out.) Instead, they curb-stomp porpoises. {conservation expert Mark} Cotter describes this as “object-oriented play,” which suggests he is suffering from Sea Fever, because the attacks actually sound pretty Clockwork Orangey.

Nature sucks.

If water is everywhere then life is everywhere too.

Rick Santorum’s abortion was okay - but if you do it, it’s murder! So says Rick Santorum.

“the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind“

See you in 2050.

Liberal experts vs. conservative “experts”:

Increasingly, the parties are divided over expertise–with much more of it residing among liberals and Democrats, and with liberals and Democrats much more aligned with the views of scientists and scholars. More fundamentally, the parties are increasingly divided over reality itself: over what is actually true, not only about hard science but also social science and simple policy facts such as the contents of the health-care bill.

There’s no doubt these two divides are connected, but the relationship between them isn’t necessarily straightforward. It’s not as if all the brains are on one side, and there’s a total lack of them on the other. So before glorying in the fact that we have more facts, liberals might consider first blowing into an intellectual breathalyzer, to be sure we’re not too intoxicated by our own seeming brilliance. After all, one thing our expertise does not appear to be doing is bringing the country back from the brink of a fully postmodern and fact-free discourse.

Claims he will spend $400,000 of his own money looking for bin Laden’s body on the ocean floor to DNA test it.

At least that’s money that won’t go to Tea Party candidates.

Also won’t go to feed the poor or anything useful to the human race.

Prosecutorial zeal and the market for stolen antiquities has upended some career curators, not always justly.

Hilarious excerpts from Wikipedia’s “Paul Revere” talk page. Is our children learning?

Let’s hope so. The takeaway: the suburbs could become as arty, social, and income-generating as the cities, but they’d have to get a lot quirkier.