So between the two of them Pat and Daniel convinced me that I should see Machete.  This took a little bit of doing, since I’m not a huge fan of the cheap 1970s exploitation films that inspired Robert Rodriguez to make this one.  But a $100 million big Hollywood film with Robert de Niro that […]

Via Daniel, the news that the brains of cockroaches and locusts contain natural antibiotics capable of wiping out 90% of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Cockroaches live in filth, someone must have reasoned.  Why don’t they get sick? The group found that the tissues of the brain and nervous system of the insects were able to kill more […]

From the Discoveries High and Low Department. Via Geoff Landis, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered two natural bridges on the moon. In a first, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera team spotted a natural bridge on the Moon in an image from King crater, on the lunar farside. The bridge appears to have formed when […]

“This fictional account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is still of interest to outdoor-minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant-raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the occasional gamekeeper. Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in […]