Coffee and Provocation

Fighting MERS With Viruses

A bacteria-killing viruses has been hitched to antibiotics to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

I Want to Swim from the UK to the US

I would like to swim from the UK to the US, and back.  Easy enough to do, provided you swim between the US and UK Virgin Islands, which are less than 3 kilometer distance from each other.

   

This Platform Could Get You Elected in the US

EU plans to legislate for a common phone charger despite Apple grumbling about it.

Tiny "Rewildings" Matter

Adding more plants to tiny urban greenspaces can massively boost their biodiversity.

Mapping the Ghosts of Indigenous People

Native Land is an explorable, interactive map showing where indigenous peoples once lived. You can type in the name of your community to see who lived there.

Amazon Zillionaire and Tax Cheat Jeff Bezos to Donate...

The Bezos Earth Fund has promised $1 billion "to assist in the protection of susceptible nature and Indigenous peoples all over the world, with Congo Basin, the tropical Pacific Ocean, and the tropical Andes being an initial focus."

Hunters Driving US Wolves to Brink

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has stated that new legislation liberalizing gray wolf hunting and trapping in the Northern Rockies might support reclassifying the animals as endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.