Archive for the 'Animals' Category

Case studies in the Politics of Food and Choice: Eggs & Salt

By Solomon Kleinsmith | Related entries in Animals, Consumer Safety, Food, News

I stumbled across an interesting article on eggs yesterday while sitting in Borders reading up on something I’m going to be doing an in depth series of posts on. Apparently a study at the USDA has shown that factory farm eggs are far less nutritious than pastured eggs. I don’t know what causes this… although [...]

July 26th, 2009 | Permalink| 19 Comments »

Solving The Mystery Of The Cat

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Animals, Kitchen Sink

Even though I don’t have one myself, I’m definitely a cat person. Sure dogs are fun, and there’s no doubt they dish out much more unconditional love than cats, but my reasoning has always been that if I wanted a child I’d go and have one myself. Because that’s basically what a dog is: a [...]

May 31st, 2009 | Permalink| 11 Comments »

Thoroughdead

By donar | Related entries in Animals, Ethics, Political Graffiti, Sports
May 16th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Ancient Elephants Lived Mostly In Water

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Animals, History, Republicans, Science

From Fox News:
A recent study found that an ancient elephant ancestor called Moeritherium spent most of its time in rivers and swamps.
Scientists knew that elephants are related to modern aquatic creatures such as manatees, but they had never identified an ancient elephant relative that lived in water.
No wonder they’re wrinkly.

April 15th, 2008 | Permalink| 5 Comments »

Elephant Paints Self Portrait

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Animals, Art, Republicans, Video

It’s amazing what Republicans can do sometimes.

March 31st, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »