Author Archives: Stan Flouride

Screw bringing back mastodons! Let’s bring back these 3-foot (90cm) cuties: The Pygmy Elephant is an extinct species of elephant closely related to the modern Asian elephant. 500,000 year-old fossils have been recovered from various Mediterranean islands including Sicily, Malta, Crete, and Cyprus. This island-bound … Continue reading →

Found some 65 feet down near St. John in Lateran Basilica during the excavation of the new metro C line, the huge irrigation basin measures 115 feet by 230 feet. “It’s so big that it goes beyond the perimeter of … Continue reading →

Not cheap (about $50 incl. tax) but I figure most of it counts as a donation.

The famous Kalahari Bushmen of southern Africa have long been in decline. For more than a century, the people, who speak Khoisan languages, have been pushed off their land by farmers and brutalized by colonialists. Yet for tens of thousands … Continue reading →

Japan, where porn is a major industry and images of brutal torture (of either sex) are perfectly fine but genitals (of either sex) are considered obscene and must be blurred. pixelated, or covered in all images comes this: UPDATE: TOKYO — An artist … Continue reading →

After many attempts I finally scored a PERFECT score of 25,000 points on Geoguessr! I can only be tied but give it a try or play another map: https://geoguessr.com/challenge/VMjDrotDVzLEDSUf Here are my previous games: As you can see, I do … Continue reading →

I cannot, for the life of me, imagine how this came about. I have traversed that southbound sidewalk of the GG Bridge many times and can’t figure how you’d get a car on it.

Photographer: Kurt Fanus; Kurt’s Flickr site Summary Authors: Kurt Fanus; Jim Foster The panorama above features a wonderful example of supernumerary bows just beneath the upper reaches of this high arching rainbow. It was taken from Richmond, Virginia, late in the day on October 16, 2014. Tiny water drops are … Continue reading →

In this 1690 broadside advertisement, London merchant Samuel Price deployed rumor and vivid anecdote to advance the medical case for drinking coffee, chocolette, and thee or tea. Forty years after the opening of the first coffeehouses in London, Price, who had “really … Continue reading →