Last week the East Valley Tribune reported that the Mesa Police Department filed a $100,000 grant with the Department of Defense to add a monkey to its SWAT team. Since then the Mesa police press office has been inundated: Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and Good Morning America have come sniffing around as well as […]

Recently, cosmologist-cum-Nostradamus Sir Martin Rees predicted that by the year 2020, “bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event.” A bold proclamation, though it remains to be seen if a “terrorist group” or an “individual weirdo” can develop a near-instantaneous contagion with a delivery method effective enough to ravage a […]

Enough with the “cold fusion this” and “cancer cure that”, all right? We’ll get to it when we get to it.

In keeping with Frink Tank’s bizarre (and some say sexual) attraction to monkeys, we’re proud to bring you our simian entry for the week:
Four chimpanzees (two male, two female) violently attacked a man on an animal sanctuary near Bakersfield, California after one female figured out how to pop the pin on the lock to […]

Science is, in essence, directed Curiosity. What do we know, and what do we wish to know? We can narrow it down. For example, according to the Discovery Channel, we have a nigh-insatiable wish to know about monster choppers. Except during sweeps, when we wish to know about sharks.
But there’s one scientistic subject that’s even […]

A $650,000 poorer anonymous donor won the right to name a new species of titi monkey, outbidding also-ran Ellen Degeneres and getting his or her anonymous self splashed across the pages of top-tier outlets everywhere.
As usual, this kind of thing is a lot more common than context-free, all-hysterics newswire plagiarists would have you imagine. BIOPAT […]