Let’s hope it’s not too abysmal. We have a dog with a mustache-making chew toy, the scubacraft submersible, oddly shaped Chinese knotweed, a giant pigeon statue in London, and — of course — a webcomic.
Click on any of them to be taken to where they came from.
The morning coffee has spoken about the sex offender registry before. That time was through the eyes of The Economist with a focus on public urination. Today we look at it again, as Classically Liberal looks at how laws designed to protect children are destroying their lives.
Are you a student who has just recently returned to University (or gone for the first time)? Did your professor write your textbook? If so, Freakonomics is suggesting that you ask for a rebate.
In South Africa broadband is so slow that your e-mail would arrive faster if you use a carrier pigeon.
Scientists have managed to document an end-to-end evolution — the appearance of a genetic mutation, its selection and spread through a population of wild animals — in Nebraskan field mice.
Photography, love and hyperreality.
(Photo by Briana Taylor)
The article below was this morning’s morning coffee, which failed to be published due to technical difficulties. Please accept it as an after-work coffee instead.
We begin this morning with a quick glance at serious news.
In Iran, British embassy staff have been arrested, as the authorities continue to blame Britain and the United States for voter anger at rigged election results.
In Honduras, President Manuel Zelaya has been exiled to Costa Rica in a military coup. Venezuela is threatening military intervention.
(Photo by Mike Mawson)
Will art critics be replaced with pigeons? A recent study from Japan has shown that pigeons can be train to discern “good” art from “bad”.
Crop circles in the UK are apparently not made by visiting aliens or teenagers with too much time on their hands. Instead, they are indicative of the existence of 6,000-year-old tombs, which interfere with plant growth on the surface.
