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Jason Hobbs, like many of us, owns a pocket knife. But unlike you and me, Hobbs has within the week plunged his miniature blade into the muscular chest of an aggressive mountain lion. I guess when you turn around to see a gigantic cat dragging your six-year-old son by his… Read the rest
On Port Blair, a remote island in India, one of the world’s oldest dialects has become extinct after the last person to speak it died. Boa Sr, the 85-year-old last speaker of the Bo language was the oldest member of the Great Andamanese tribe.
Tracing its origins back to tens… Read the rest
After the fire storms of the apocalypse choke the life out of our planet the cockroaches will rule as kings from thrones made of Twinkies. Everybody knows that. And yeah, sure, it’s frustrating to know they are just waiting us out. But to add insult to injury it now appears… Read the rest
In a plot switch worthy of bison porno nearly a hundred quarantined Yellowstone bison that were en route to the gallows have been redirected to a Montana ranch owned by billionaire media mogul Ted Turner. Instead of being killed, the disease-free animals will now be transported to Turner’s Montana ranch–home… Read the rest
The whole world’s eyes are on Haiti now, as the poorest country in the Americas faces yet another devastating disaster. Death toll has now reached over 200,000 at Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital. These numbers are still increasing as survivors are losing patience with the painfully slow process of getting international… Read the rest
In 2008 seventy-six-year-old Nepalese man Min Bahadur Sherchan reached the peak of Mount Everest, making him the oldest person to ever climb the 29,028 foot mountain all the way to the top. But when the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records came out he saw that the title had been… Read the rest
Watch New Zealand surfer Chris Nel describe how he and some friends survived the deadly tsunami that rocked the Samoa Islands last week by riding out the giant waves that crashed over the island.
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In an article recently published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, authors David Bassett of the University of Tennessee and John Pucher of Rutgers University prove a link between “active transportation” and less obesity in 17 industrialized countries across Europe, North America and Australia and their findings may… Read the rest
There’s a new site to add to your list of daily RSS feeds. The #1 blog on the web the Huffington Post has officially launched their Huffington Post Green site, meaning that green news and opinion has basically gone mainstream. Today’s headlines? “Energy Costs Force Southerners to Change Ways” and… Read the rest
