This is the greatest invention ever, as any West Philadelphian who's ever been stuck behind a trolley could tell you.

Scientists insert the human version of FOXP2 into miceIt's always interesting to see SFnal predictions working their way slowly towards reality. (Perhaps that should be phrased as "Reality working its way slowly towards the predictions of SF writers.") So much of the genre starts to look dated in 20 years, and outright silly in 30. We were ( Read more... )

...and humans are short-sighted idiots.

What happens when you take away the feral cats?While I'm sure the population of feral cats caused its own problems (not least of which was surely "cats excrete"), I do love when people get practical demonstrations of how an ecosystem works ( Read more... )

From MSNBC:
FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. - Frederick County sheriff’s deputies are looking for a man who attacked a convenience store clerk with a banana.
The article ends with this line: "The clerk pulled out a knife, and the man with the banana split ( Read more... )