Y’all kids heard ’bout the latest in rewilding?
A Cornell grad student recently wrote an essay for Nature suggesting that we, as good stewards of the earth, should reintroduce the large mammals that once roamed the plains and forests of North America during the Pleistocene era. This means establishing wild populations of their closest […]

It’s like the time you were at that fancy dinner party and made an ill-advised switch from wine to straight bourbon and suddenly blurted out that you and the missus have taken a shine to dressing up like monkeys and dry humping for fun. What was everyone around you thinking? Too Much Information, of course. […]

Let me hear you shout if you figured out that peak oil was going to be more than mere alarmism the first time National Geographic put it on its cover. Holla!

Now that Hurricane Katrina has knocked out a bunch of offshore drilling platforms and, more importantly, a sizable chunk of America’s refining capacity, we here […]

And what, pray tell, is the question? Fools! That matters not. The answer applies to everything.
OK, no–the question is: How to get more people interested in the global warming debate?
If you’re reading this site, you probably care already–at least sort of. Well, you should care more, and so should everyone else. Hell, global […]

I’ll give you a hint: it’s not beer.

That’s right: it’s turtle eggs. Or the lack thereof. As in, don’t eat them, you superstitious git, because they won’t actually make you any more potent.

Only your god can do that.

While scientists of the Western world are vigorously battling an ever-encroaching wave of legislation based on supernatural belief, it seems their Chinese counterparts, unfettered by ideological debate, have found their own myths to explode. Recently the ensemble of party poopers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences soberly dismissed that most beloved breed of beastie, the […]

In an development that vindicates Frinktank’s dubious existence, chimpanzees have made a triumphant return to the news cycle. According to a recent study, wild pan troglodytes exhibit a definitive handedness, with most favoring their left hands (paws to all you red staters) when using sticks to probe dirt mounds. Primate hand preference has long been […]

As if 48 hours of planning and 4 hours of spacewalking culminating in the equivalent of peeling the label off a beer bottle weren’t enough, the space shuttle program is now grounded. This would be a problem if this particular program didn’t suck, but since it does suck–monstrously, with teeth and ice–this is, rather, an […]

A few weeks ago we red-lined over the anti-scientific rant written in the NY Times by one Cardinal Schornborn, a high-ranking Vatican apparatchik. Firstmost among the sundry idiocies there evinced was a denunciation of JP2’s historic acknowledgement of evolution.
Nobody within the Vatican’s cowed, Bush-like administration made a peep. Until now, thanks to their Chief […]