Category Archives: Nature

Whales for Sale USA

February 20, 2013 – 8:49 pm

Back in 2007 two humpback whales became befuddled by the backwash of mobile phones in San Francisco Bay and swam seventy miles up the Sacramento River. Oceanologists failed to seduce the errant sea mammals to the open sea with love sirens from other whales and Japanese researchers offered to lend California marine biologists a sonar […]

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Punxsutawney Phil

February 3, 2013 – 6:00 pm

Today Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his hole to signal spring’s arrival in six weeks. Thousands of people without any real purpose in their life showed up in the Pennsylvania town to celebrate the old German holiday and organizers stated that the furry rodents’ forecasts are accurate 75% to 90% of the time. More interesting is […]

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Let There Be Internet

November 1, 2012 – 8:37 pm

The last two days the internet was cut to the Fort Greene Observatory. Service was restored this evening, but every gas station in the city is without gas. One of my neighbors is trying to drive fourteen miles to New Jersey. His gas meter says that the tank holds eighteen miles of petrol. I wished […]

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Yikes Land Shark

October 30, 2012 – 10:06 am

This photo from New Jersey appeared on Facebook. It might not be photoshopped, but judging from the height of the doorhandle I calculated that the sandshark is a 2-3 footer cruising the shallow floodwaters. He must be looking for a Micky Ds.

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Sandy’s Aftermath Day 1

October 30, 2012 – 10:00 am

This morning the East Coast woke up to the havoc of Hurricane Sandy. Reports of widespread destruction are just hitting the media. New Jersey bore the brunt of the storm’s landfall, while Lower Manhattan was deluged by 13-foot high tides. Power is out for millions from Virginia to New England, as the remnants of the […]

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