Paranormal Technology: Gadgets For Ghost-Tracking
At an investigation of a supposedly haunted house in a wooded area an hour south of Richmond, Va., called the Edgewood Plantation, one ghost-hunting team recently used its high-tech tools to track down the spirits that always become of interest this time of year. With uneven floorboards and creaky doors, the house is prime real [...]
Who Left A Tree, Then A Coffin In The Library?
It started suddenly. Without warning. Last spring, Julie Johnstone, a librarian at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, was wandering through a reading room when she saw, sitting alone on a random table, a little tree. It was made of twisted paper and was mounted on a book. Gorgeously crafted, it came with a gold-leafed [...]
Invasion Of The Mind-Controlling Zombie Parasites
A few months back, something terrible happened to millions of flies around Washington, D.C. “We were getting literally hundreds of reports of these crazy dead flies everywhere — on vegetation, on sign posts,” says Mike Raupp, an entomologist at the University of Maryland. He says the flies were attacked by a mind-controlling fungus. “It basically [...]
Eating Your Way To A Healthy Heart (If You’re A Python)
It’s a huckster’s dream: “Try the new Burmese Python Diet. No calorie counting or special foods. Eat whatever comes along, up to a quarter of your body weight. Not only is it good for your waistline; it’s good for your heart.” Trouble is, what works in pythons probably won’t work for humans. Pythons employ what [...]
A Halloween Love Story
This is a weekend of things that go boo in the dark, so here’s a little bit of boo (which turns into a love story between a skeleton and a beautiful maiden). They meet—or have they already met? – in a famous bookstore in Paris. This comes from filmmaker Spike Jonze and designer Olympia Le-Tan. [...]
Snuffing Out Snakehead By Putting It On The Plate
If you can’t beat ‘em, eat ‘em. That’s the rallying cry for conservationists who are recruiting cooks — and their filet knives and frying pans — to the fight invasive fish species. The latest target is the snakehead fish, an aggressive animal native to Asia and Africa that has been populating the waterways of Maryland [...]
Insect Cuisine Is All The Buzz
Kudos to the SF Weekly for their fascinating in-depth cover story last week on bug eating. Seems the City by the Bay has become a “hotbed of insect cuisine,” David Gordon, a nationally renowned entomophagist (bug eater) and author of The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook, tells the alternative weekly. But could it be that daring Bay Area [...]
Unmanned Aircraft Production Expanding in Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s building a formidable foundation for design, engineering, and manufacturing of unmanned aerial systems.
A DNA Check Reveals Widespread Fish Mislabeling In Massachusetts
Beware, Massachusetts fish fans: If you’re buying or ordering red snapper, white tuna, local cod or haddock, there’s a pretty good chance that’s not what you’re going to get. Two intrepid reporters at the Boston Globe set out to figure out just how bad one form of fish fraud — mislabeling — is in restaurants, [...]
Photos Show Sheer Scale Of Shark Fin Trade
Every year, 73 million sharks are killed for their fins. Most go to make shark fin soup, a luxury dish and status symbol in some Asian cultures that can sell for $100 a bowl. In recent years, graphic undercover footage of the shark finning trade has helped raise public awareness of the issue. Photos and [...]
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