Bees around the country seem to be disappearing, and no one is really sure why.   What IS known, however, is that honeybees annually pollinate more than $14 billion worth of seeds and crops in the United States.   Their continuing loss could be devastating to agriculture in this country.
David Bradshaw has endured countless stings during […]

This is a trippy video by Japanese electronica artist Cornelius. For all you old-school MTV-heads out there, the video definitely has a Sledgehammer feel to it (at least to me).

According to Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley, somewhere between 15% to 25% of the 125,000 construction cranes currently operating in the world today are located in Dubai.
Dubai is on an insane building kick right now, with such amazing projects as The World, The Palm Islands, Dubailand, the world’s tallest hotel: the Burj al-Arab, and the […]

Thanks Warren Ellis, for giving me fucking nightmares.

Some rich folks buy expensive cars, while some ever richer folks buy private jets. The truly obscenely obnoxiously rich buy their own private jumbo jets. In this case, an oil magnate is purchasing a brand new Airbus A380 for $300 million. The A380 (which is the largest passenger […]

It’s the alarm clock that wakes you with the sizzle and smell of freshly cooked bacon!

There is an interesting article over at National Geographic that studies the link between hot caffeinated beverages (coffee/tea) and the start of the Industrial Revolution.
It’s hardly a coincidence that coffee and tea caught on in Europe just as the first factories were ushering in the industrial revolution. The widespread use of caffeinated drinks—replacing the ubiquitous […]

when your ball is pulled?   Personally, I do not.   But Mr. Chikan does!

The story is here, but don’t bother using CNN’s crappy built in movie player.   A much better version of the 40 second film can be seen at this link.

Rosemarie Fiore explodes and contains live fireworks onto paper, and the resulting images are beautiful amalgamations of layered colors.