Study links insecticide use to invertebrate die-offs (Well duh!!!)
The Guardian reports
Study links insecticide use to invertebrate die-offs
Dutch research reveals correlation between water polluted with imidacloprid and low numbers of aquatic insects
The world’s most widely used insecticide is devastating dragonflies
Thank goodness that we have studies to give us information on this kind of thing!
Driver wants deer crossing signs moved to areas with less traffic
“I wanted to voice my opinion on something that’s been bothering me for a really long time. I tried writing the newspaper and contacting TV stations but nobody seems to want to stick with this so I’m calling you guys. Over the past few years I’ve been involved in three separate car accidents involving deer. Each of these incidents occurred shortly after I saw a deer crossing sign on the highway.”
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Check out this beautiful orange fireball as a smoker lights up at a gas station!
This is certainly one of the prettier things I’ve seen on YouTube:
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Public schools teach math and science much better when the teachers DON’T have a degree in education
ABC News says you shouldn’t take sleeping pills before driving
Well what do you know – it’s actually a bad idea to take sleeping pills before driving.
I never would have guessed.
Japan nuclear accident causes mutations in butterflies
ABC News reports:
“Japanese scientists say ‘abnormalities’ detected in the country’s butterflies may be a result of radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year.”
I don’t know what this reminds me of more – an old prison movie, or a children’s fairy tale
Associated Press reports:
Kangaroo escapes with help of fox and boar
German wildlife zoo staff search for kangaroo after animals from neighbouring woods dig holes under park fences
A kangaroo is on the run in Germany after breaking out of a wildlife park, with a fox and a wild boar as his suspected accomplices.
Michael Hoffmann, assistant head of the Hochwildschutzpark Hunsrück west of Frankfurt, said on Monday the male kangaroo was one of three that escaped overnight on Saturday with the inadvertent help of the menagerie that lives in the local woods.
Hoffmann said the kangaroos got out of their enclosure after a young fox snuck into the park and dug a hole next to the cage’s fencing. Two of the three were then able to escape the park entirely through another hole dug by a wild boar under the exterior fence.
“We’ve got two of them back; now we’re just looking for the third.”
Scientific study proves that today’s pop music really does suck
It’s not just our imagination – pop music really has been getting worse and worse. And now we have a scientific study that proves it.
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The world’s supply of resources is getting bigger, not smaller
According to the laws of physics, the total quantity of mass and energy is fixed. Therefore, we cannot “create” new mass or energy, and we cannot “use up” the mass and energy that we already have.
But there is something else that we can do – we can invent, build, and use technology to increase our standard of living. For example, petroleum was worthless until someone with a brain invented a way to use it, at which point the petroleum became a valuable resource. Likewise, today we take rocks that used to be worthless, and turn them into computer chips that are worth trillions of dollars.
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Germany replaces nuclear power with coal power, at insistence of environmentalists
In recent years, the environmental movement in Germany has persuaded the country to shut down one third if its nuclear power generating capacity.
Of that shut down nuclear capacity, more than 80% of it has been replaced with fossil fuels.
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