I was furiously downloading the photographic gorgeosity from Michael Poliza’s Flickr page, when I found this awesome photo called, um, “hard work.” Think Nat Geo crossed with Boogie Nights outtakes. SFW, but only b/c it’s Science.
Oh, and he’s got a bit of snuff too. Elton John, eat your bloody baby elephant trunk out.

In an eerie parallel to the results of the unfortunate Bruce / Demi coupling, it appears that an escaped farm elk may have crossed with a native red deer, resulting in god only knows what.
The product of a mass escape of 160 farmed elk, all of whom are being vigorously shot at by hunters who […]

The good news is that now you can drink fuel-grade alcohol without going blind.
But what’s really incredible is that the Nostradamuses who write the Simpsons predicted this development almost a decade ago:
Homer’s brain : Don’t think about beer.
[sees a ‘Alcohol-fueled car’ sign and imagines pumping gas]
“One for you, one for me. One for you, one […]

A little slow on the post-Labor Day uptake, we just now found out that Steve Irwin got smoked by a stingray. Like, drive-by style: apparently “Irwin was swimming over the stingray during filming for a documentary when he was struck in the chest, the barb most likely piercing his heart.” More gory deets:
Dr. Bryan Fry, […]

Usually I give approximately 2.3 shits about anti-extinction issues (show me an activist who cares as much about an endangered arthropod as a cuddly mammal, and I’ll show you the fucking Easter Bunny), but this dude drew me in. Yes, it’s all about a photogenic mammal again - the indigenous tigers of India and China, […]

So Stephen Hawking says we should start colonizing the moon within the next century before mankind fubars Earth. Well, my bags are packed. I got dibs on this sw33t crater just a block down from Bob Zubrin’s feldspar duplex. But here I have a fab 700 square foot apartment and a not infrequent hankering for […]

As if mother nature didn’t already fuck up enough shit, now elk populations are apparently out of control in Rocky Mountain National Park, ruining day hikes for fat Denverites with their incessant bugling and rutting. But instead of managing the problem naturally, as they did in Yellowstone with wolf reintroduction, the Park Service […]

By now you’ve read that Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton has ditched her post, no doubt under intense fire from her role in the Abramoff imbroglio. During her five year stint, she exposed government land in the west to oil and gas drilling, sent loggers into our nation’s forests, reintroduced snowmobiles to Yellowstone […]

The first time I saw Al Gore in person he exhibited a rhetorical flair and quick wit that sadly eluded him as vice president. But what really sold me on the man was his ability to match socks of a tasteful mustard yellow hue with identically colored slacks. Such subtlety! Such understatement! But that […]