Animal Name Origins

Animal Name Origins

Documentary on Andrew Wiles and Fermat's Last Theorem

Video of a fascinating story.

via GeekPress.

Cash-Poor Governments Ditching Public Hospitals

Interesting article at WSJ.

Is the EPA to blame for the bed bug ‘epidemic’?

At Daily Caller:

"There were almost no bed bugs in the United States between World War II and the mid-1990s.

Around when bed bugs started their resurgence, Congress passed a major pesticides law in 1996 and the Clinton EPA banned several classes of chemicals that had been effective bed bug killers."

Gov. Mitch Daniels on Obamacare's Devastating Consequences

Video.

The Business Of Football, 2010

Forbes

Sunday stuff

The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS.  Related: Big Brother is Searching You and Cleveland's "Big Brother" high-tech trash cans tell the government if you aren't recycling enough!

Urine-powered fuel cells.

 

Germans - the other other white meat.

 

Top 10 accidental inventions.

 

Everything you wanted to know about projectile pooping in the animal kingdom is here and here.

 

How to increase the money you get from eBay auctions.

 

The stories behind 8 back-to-school essentials.

 

Mug shot (and related story) of the week.  Somewhat related distracted driving story.

 

Video: Hay bailing fun.

 

Inside a celestial super-volcano.