Author Archives: Stan Flouride

Japanese GPS artist Yasushi Takahashi – a.k.a. “Yassan” spent half a year creating the world’s largest marriage proposal, and also holds the Guinness Record for the world’s biggest GPS drawing at 7,164 kilometers long. Yassan managed to cover the 7,164 kilometers in six months, … Continue reading →

Archeologists have discovered many noisemakers that were used by the Aztecs. Made of clay, turkey feathers, sugar cane, frog skins and other natural materials – each one likely served a specific purpose. Conch shells, for instance, were sounded at the … Continue reading →

Friends- That sound when you bite down on Doritos? That’s the sound of rainforests being “crunched” to make way for massive palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia. Workers, and even children, are trapped in modern slavery on the plantations. Forests … Continue reading →

A visual collage of ideas of greatly varying quality:

From a very entertaining site called Mommy Shorts, see more here: 30 New Members of the Picky Eaters Club

But… but…but that would mean the oil industry has been lying to us! That would never happen, I’m sure. COLUMBIA, Mo. –Recent discussions of fracking have centered on potential air and water pollution from chemicals used in these processes and … Continue reading →

A compound which in tests has eliminated the malaria parasite from the bloodstream in 48 hours is moving on to human testing. A single dose medicine which works so quickly may be the way around the malarial parasites’ ability to … Continue reading →

“Mushrooms are prolific chemical factories, yet only a few of their peptides are poisonous,” he said. “These toxins survive the high temperatures of cooking and the acids of digestion, and yet they’re readily absorbed by the bloodstream and go directly … Continue reading →

This simple design, found among Homo Erectus fossils from 500,000 years ago, is the oldest art ever discovered. New analysis of an engraving excavated from a riverbank in Indonesia suggests that it’s at least 430,000 years old—and that it wasn’t … Continue reading →