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Yesterday we read the sad news that the Obama administration has approved an $8 billion loan for the construction of two new power plants in Georgia, which is by far the worst violation of our trust the White House has pulled in the last year or so. Being staunchly anti-nuclear, we’re seriously contemplating moving to [...]

We used to love getting milk delivered to our house by the kindly milkman, until one day, instead of taking the empties he left with our auntie Lou (or, “the milkmaid,” as he called her), and we never saw either of them again. We’re told that the first ever milk bottle delivery took place on [...]

It’s not just people that wear costumes and disguises in attempts to infiltrate tightly controlled venues like exclusive Halloween parties and enemy bases: it’s all rooted in animal behavior. While it’s quite rare that animals are caught on camera posing as other animals, or with something of another species in their midst, but when it [...]

One of the most iconic images of modern history is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary: on June 5th, 1989 an unknown man faced down a row of tanks on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where months of protest had finally ceased when the military removed protesters from the public plaza by force. Nobody ever discovered who [...]