«Scandale au zoo de Pékin: après avoir admiré les animaux dans les allées du zoo, les visiteurs peuvent les déguster dans leur assiette. C’est le journal chinois The Legal Daily qui a révélé cette aberration la semaine dernière: au menu du restaurant du zoo, on pouvait trouver de l’hippopotame, du kangourou, du crocodile ou encore des scorpions.»

Source: 20minutes.fr

A lire aussi: Les animaux moches sont mal barrés
Et aussi: «Dogdating» géant au Champ de Mars

«Using high resolution satellites from NOAA’s partners in Earth observations, NESDIS scientists are able to track the location of the oil plume as it is circulated throughout the Gulf due to changing wind and currents. Satellites providing data for these analyses include the MODIS sensor on NASA’s Aqua and Terra, Canadian Space Agency’s RADARSAT-2 SAR, Satellite Imaging Corporation’s SPOT-5, and the SAR sensor on European Space Agency’s ENVISAT.»

Latest news: Oil leak may continue until August

«Tapped is a film that examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.»

Source: YouTube - tappedfilm’s Channel
Watch it: filestab.com: domino-tapped.avi
Google it: Tapped.2009.DVDRip.XviD-DOMiNO

«There are dark clouds gathering on the horizon. They are the clouds of six hugely troubling global trends, climate change being just one of the six. Individually, each of these trends is a potential civilization buster. Collectively, they are converging to form the perfect storm–a storm of such magnitude that it will dwarf anything that mankind has ever seen. If we are unsuccessful in our attempts to calm this storm, without a doubt it will destroy life as we know it on Planet Earth! »

Source: The Huffington Post

«I hate to break it to you, but simple steps, like changing your light bulbs and driving a hybrid car, though they are good steps in the right direction, will not be enough to save our world from collapse. If we consider “Plan A” to be business as usual, which is currently consuming, depleting, and poisoning the natural systems that maintain life on Earth, then we might call a sustainable alternative “Plan B”. It has been estimated that a viable Plan B could be implemented by diverting just 1/6th of the world’s current military expenditures to supporting and implementing the sweeping changes needed to shift our world’s course from collapse to sustainability. Are we that stupid, short sighted, or selfish that we can’t devote this much to saving our planet?»

Source: The Huffington Post

« Puirt-a-beul (= mouth music) are lyrics written primarily for dancing to. Consequently the lyrics are only of secondary importance the rhythm in the song is the most important aspect and the rhythm takes precedence over the rhythm and stresses of the Gaelic. …»

Source: ubu.com

«Fort acoustic partition system is made from recycled PET bottle fiber. The “fort” system has its benefits with sound oriented environments as well as being an adaptable room divider that unlike most can be reconfigured to fit specific needs.»

Source: arihiromiyake.com

«Towel Day is celebrated every 25 May as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams.[1] On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their love for the books and the author, as referenced in Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.»

Source: wikipedia

«In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is more than 10 times that estimate. So what’s behind the ballooning figures? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme’s exhaustively researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we’ll pay for many years to come..»

Source: good.is

«researchers have shown that it’s possible to take away driver control of a moving vehicle by remotely hacking into relatively insecure computer systems common in modern automobiles. The team managed to break into key vehicle systems to kill the engine, apply or disable the brakes and even send cheeky messages to radio or dashboard displays..»

Source: gizmag.com
See also: the researchers’ site