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Happy turkey day (for those of you south of the border, at least). Three football games on a Thursday? Genius.
The BBC had a bit of a flub in a report from a couple of days ago about a giant fossil claw from an equally giant sea scorpion found in Germany. Based on the size of the claw and other known members of the same family, the estimate is that the scorpion was 8 feet long and weighed over 250 pounds. Unfortunately, the story's headline read "Man-sized sea scorpion claw found." This suggests that the claw was the size of a man. A better way to make that statement would have been "Giant sea scorpion claw found, creature was man-sized." Just sayin'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7104421.stm
Speaking of large animals, farmers in India have been successful in keeping marauding elephants out of their fields using a paste made from the world's hottest pepper, National Geographic reports. The paste is smeared on poles and apparently the smell is enough to make the elephant look elsewhere for forage. Which is good news except that the farmers now have to smell super-hot pepper paste all day long. Oh, how it burns!
The taser issue in Canada has gone into a full-blown furor in the continuing fallout from the death of a Polish immigrant at the Vancouver airport. Adding fuel to the fire is the death of a Dartmouth, NS man who was beaten, pepper sprayed, and THEN tasered. He died in hospital 30 hours later. Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and British Colombia are all beginning formal inquiries and there is talk of a national review. I'd like to think that this will result in an end to the use of excessive force by police, but I'm not that optimistic. At least it might lead to better training and rules for when the use of tasers is justified.
In technology, the Kindle is out of stock. Yeah, I know. No word on how many have sold. Amazon.com shows an availability date of December 5 for the next batch. Canadian sister site Amazon.ca features the latest pick from Oprah's book club. How lame is that?
The BBC had a bit of a flub in a report from a couple of days ago about a giant fossil claw from an equally giant sea scorpion found in Germany. Based on the size of the claw and other known members of the same family, the estimate is that the scorpion was 8 feet long and weighed over 250 pounds. Unfortunately, the story's headline read "Man-sized sea scorpion claw found." This suggests that the claw was the size of a man. A better way to make that statement would have been "Giant sea scorpion claw found, creature was man-sized." Just sayin'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7104421.stm
Speaking of large animals, farmers in India have been successful in keeping marauding elephants out of their fields using a paste made from the world's hottest pepper, National Geographic reports. The paste is smeared on poles and apparently the smell is enough to make the elephant look elsewhere for forage. Which is good news except that the farmers now have to smell super-hot pepper paste all day long. Oh, how it burns!
The taser issue in Canada has gone into a full-blown furor in the continuing fallout from the death of a Polish immigrant at the Vancouver airport. Adding fuel to the fire is the death of a Dartmouth, NS man who was beaten, pepper sprayed, and THEN tasered. He died in hospital 30 hours later. Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and British Colombia are all beginning formal inquiries and there is talk of a national review. I'd like to think that this will result in an end to the use of excessive force by police, but I'm not that optimistic. At least it might lead to better training and rules for when the use of tasers is justified.
In technology, the Kindle is out of stock. Yeah, I know. No word on how many have sold. Amazon.com shows an availability date of December 5 for the next batch. Canadian sister site Amazon.ca features the latest pick from Oprah's book club. How lame is that?
Labels: football, giant claw, hot peppers, kindle, taser
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