While driving home from ultimate on Saturday morning, I had the good fortune to listen to the CBC’s Quirks and Quarks. In particular, I listened to an interview (MP3) with Dr. Sheila Patek, an entomologist who was very excited to talk about Costa Rica’s trap jaw ant. The ant is notable for its incredibly fast […]
Julie Leung, who apparently has a mind like a steel trap, remembered that I mentioned prosopagnosia a year ago (speculating if the models in two ads were the same). She sent along a Time magazine article about this fascinating disorder:
Most prosopagnosics learn to cope early on. They distinguish people based on cues like hairstyle, voice, […]
Via digg, here are six methods of dying that scare people, but rarely actually occur. Among the most irrational is being killed by a shark:
According to the International Shark Attack File (ISAF), though, only 1,909 confirmed shark attacks have occurred around the world–between 1580 and 2003! Of these, 737 happened in the United States, […]
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