Fossil fuel divestment is one of the major subjects of student activists today. Back in December energy advocate Bill McKibben argued that colleges should cease investing in oil companies: “fossil fuel industry [is] an enemy that must be defeated,” since the industry uses “money and political influence to block climate action in Washington.” Students at many colleges have taken up the cause, known as “Fossil Free.” There are fossil fuel divestment […]

Hope you had a happy Thor’s day. It’s Freya’s day! Hurray! Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines – Houston Chronicle. Bobbie Short of Bigfoot Encounters website has died. Maybe Portlandites should read this A Natural History of Fluoride | Wired Science | Wired.com. Not that science matters… Score one for the antiscience cranks in Portland on fluoridation – Respectful Insolence. Top 10 New Species 2013

Poster: Lifelong Bilingualism Is Associated With Larger Grey And White Matter Volumes In The Temporal Lobe. RK Olsen et al. Rotman Reserach Institute Baycrest. Here’s another reason to learn a second language: bilingualism staves off “senile moments” well into your 70s. With aging, our cognition inevitably declines – some faster than others. One brake that […]

Read the name below out loud. This is yet another one of these psychic scams where people fall for the “cursed” ploy. But this story quotes a “real” psychic. Read on… IE Psychics Accused of Stealing $238,000 From Customers to Banish Evil Spirits | NBC Southern California. Cindy and Nick Uwanawich are accused of operating an unlicensed psychic business known as The Psychic Door in Crestline. According to investigators, Cindy Uwanawich told one person that a […]

If you find this cute little thing, you may be tempted to keep her. The MidWeek | Baby wallaroo missing in rural Kingston. If you happen to see what looks like a miniature kangaroo hopping about, there’s nothing wrong with your eyes. Her name is Willow, and her human family would very much like to have her back. Willow is a 14-month-old baby wallaroo, an Australian marsupial that is like a miniature kangaroo. She is about 2 feet tall, gray and weighs between 15 and 20 pounds. She is […]