For the past year, a special Colombian police unit has been locking rats in cages with cats as part of a project to train the rodents to sniff out the more than 100,000 land mines planted mostly by leftist rebels across this conflict-wracked Andean country. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Biotechnologists have engineered brewer's yeast so that it glows green in response to an ingredient found in land mines. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An amazing photo expedition inside Stalin's abandoned potassium mines. Totally remarkable photography.

It's seriously worth using Google site translation (The sites in Russian) and looking at "photo's of expeditions" as some of them are amazing. picked by doggylives 5 months ago

A new global portrait taken from space details Earth’s land cover with a resolution never before obtained. Earth’s land cover has been charted from space before, but this map, which will be made available to the public upon its completion in July, has a resolution 10 times sharper than any of its predecessors. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

A low-fat vegetarian diet is very efficient in terms of how much land is needed to support it. But adding some dairy products and a limited amount of meat may actually increase this efficiency. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land. Swedish researcher Per Ahlberg from Uppsala University and colleagues have reconstructed parts of the animal and explain the transformation. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

American film maker Randall Nickerson is currently visiting southern Africa to make a documentary that follows up an incident that happened at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, in 1994, when 62 children aged between eight and 12 reported seeing a UFO and “strange beings” during their morning break. picked by deEPCHill 4 months ago

“Love Land” is a theme park, about the size of two soccer fields, located in the north of Cheju Island. And it’s crammed with soft porn memorabilia.
(Children under 12 can enter the theme park for free — as long as they’re accompanied by adults) picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

An online passive multiplayer game. You make an account and it loads as a toolbar in Firefox (NOT IE!!). You then get points for surfing and can interact in many different ways with other players. Kind of a Steampunk-ish interface. Really way cooler than I describe it. Drop mines on players, frustrate them with St. Nicks, send them through Portals, gift them with crates and more! And upvote... read full post picked by Moe 2 months ago

The site may well be in Chinese, but still, this is what EVERYBODY would buy if they were to win the lottery.

Reminds me of Kenny's costume in the South Park Halloween special... picked by brightoncub 2 years ago

Republican U.S. Rep. Richard Renzi of Arizona, a state co-chair for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, was indicted on corruption charges stemming from land deals in his state.

The 35-count indictment stemmed from plans by Renzi and a business associate, a real estate investor, to benefit from a land-exchange deal in Arizona in return for Renzi's support for necessary federal legislation picked by 2manyusernames 6 months ago

Swampland for your new retirement home, courtesy of slimeballs on eBay. picked by hypnotode 2 years ago

Print one out and color it the f**k in. picked by Ellz 8 months ago

Newly assembled radar images from Cassini provide the best views of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on Saturn's moon Titan. A new radar image reveals that Titan’s south polar region also has lakes. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

I'm SO thankful I'm not raising my daughter there! picked by Phildo 2 years ago

"It's a very slow, creeping catastrophe that's happening," Mayor Dale Oglesby said. picked by DrNothing 12 months ago

Australia’s Aborigines were stripped of the right of self-rule yesterday after the Government declared the widespread sexual abuse of Aboriginal children to be a national emergency.

This is several months old but I thought topical due to THIS post picked by doggylives 5 months ago

CLARKSDALE, Miss.--When in Rome, as they say. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Phosphate-mining companies want the Legislature to forbid Idaho regulators from forcing them to restore mineral-tainted groundwater beneath their operations to natural conditions once they shutter their mines -- because they say that standard is impossible to meet. picked by muppet 6 months ago

Next Big movie project? A movie based on the boardgame Monopoly. Universal Pictures will be making a movie based on that and 3 other board games, Candy Land, Battleship and Ouija. picked by 2manyusernames 6 months ago