oooo....this is NOT good, not good at all. my whole family lives in the Calcutta area.

Quoted: The northern end of the Bay of Bengal could be at risk of giant earthquakes and tsunamis in the coming decades, scientists say.

Quoted: Somewhere in your brain, there's a cupcake circuit. how it works is not entirely clear, and you couldn't see it even if you knew where to look. But it's there all the same—and it's a powerful thing. You didn't pop out of the womb prewired for cupcakes, but long ago, early in your babyhood, you got your first taste of one, and instantly a series of sensory, metabolic and neurochemical fireworks went off. Human beings have always had a complicated relationship with food. Staying alive from day to day requires our bodies to keep a lot of systems running just so, but most of them—circulatory, respiratory, neurological, endocrine—operate automatically. Eating is different. Like sex, it's a voluntary thing. And like sex, it's a sine qua non to keep the species going. So nature cleverly rigs the game, making sure we pursue them both by making sure we can't resist them. In the case of food, that has lately spelled trouble. Human history has usually been characterized by too little to eat rather than too much. Nature never planned for what could happen when unchecked appetites were suddenly matched by unchecked resources. But we're seeing it now.

Quoted: Why not teach all religions at school? To help out with this dilemma, we present a list of those Creation Myths that helped define civilizations both past and present.

this is really cool--it goes through a bunch of world religions (some of them i had never heard of til now) and shows how each religion believes mankind was created! it's crazy how many of them have so much in common, even though they were created in different times, often far away from each other.

Quoted: A fascinating underground world awaits your discovery. Find out what you need and how to shoot in the dark from a leading cave photographer.

this has some great information about taking decent pictures inside caves...wish i had searched for this before going to the Ape Caves.

Quoted: Rangers discovered the two-month-old gorilla clinging to the breast of its slain mother last Friday in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

so cute, but the story is quite sad

Quoted: The "Sistine Chapel of crystals" gained its nearly bus-length gems over millions of years of volcanic cooking in a rich watery mixture, a new study says.

i'd LOVE to check this cave out one day...the crystal formations look beautiful and amazing!

Quoted: The American multimillionaire who founded the North Face and Esprit clothing lines says he is trying to save the planet by buying bits of it. First Douglas Tompkins purchased a huge swath of southern Chile, and now he's hoping to save the northeast wetlands of neighboring Argentina.

we were discussing this a few weeks ago about similar things happening in Costa Rica

Quoted: A toad with fluorescent purple markings and 12 kinds of dung beetles were among two dozen new species discovered in the remote plateaus of eastern Suriname, scientists said Monday.

wow, what COOL frog...only had i dressed like this to the re-opening of SAM...i would've totally fit in!

Quoted: Amazon.com: Rainforest: Books: Thomas Marent by Thomas Marent

this books looks really fantastic! I'd love to check it out, and so should people interested in traveling to tropical places :)