Wombat Diet

Alex the famous talking parrot has died. He is no more. He has ceased to be. etc. When will MIT work with crows?

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The “theory” of plate tectonics is science you can kick or hit with a hammer. It’s too bad most people have no idea

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The twin disasters of 2001, Enron and 9/11, were connected via the Bush administration and a network of oil business connections extending from Texas. Brian Cruver’s account of Enron’s last year is entertaining in a way that future accounts of the Bush White House area not likely to be.

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According to a web traffic monitoring tool that I am beta-testing one of the recent visitors to this site came via a Google search for “celebrity buttocks.” Hello?
Eat your heart out Helen of Troy.
Mind you, I was surprised to see her HoTness referred to as a princess and a whore in an abstract of [...]

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England is a little underwater. Floods come and go, but history repeats itself. Warnings and lessons of the past are ignored.
So far, the media have shown the prime minister saying the emergency services are doing a “magnificent job” and nobody has challenged him about the £16m reduction in annual funding for flood defences last year [...]

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