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triviagasm

Going Halfsies With the Best SciFi Half Breeds

Human-alien hybrids are everywhere in scifi. Whether they come from interplanetary love or mutant genes quietly sneaking into our DNA, we're all about hooking up the Human factor with anything else out there. Just ask Captain Kirk, who tried to dock with every alien woman he encountered. Check out our list below of some of the best science fiction halfsies. Hybrid vigor! More »

3:30 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,079 views, 48 comments

mad evolutionary biology

Five Large-Scale Attempts to Change the Course of Human Evolution

Charles Darwin first explained the principles of sexual selection in his controversial book The Descent of Man (1871). Ever since then, people have wanted to tinker with human evolution via artificial sexual selection. Dictators, mad doctors, and crazed social scientists have proposed — and even carried out — human breeding experiments aimed at improving the species. For some definition of "improving." Here are five of the most bizarre and tragic experiments with human evolution from the last century. More »

7:40 AM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Annalee Newitz
5,156 views, 49 comments

Latest by zero2one: Oh Look! Chance invented a third legged animal! Now that's an intelligent design that happened by Chance! more »

lost

The Suckiest Parts of Lost

Tomboy Kate morphs into wimpy womanhood in one of Lost's most annoying moments. Yesterday we paid tribute to our favorite moments from the show, but now it's time to tear into the most disappointing, annoying and/or simply wrong moments. Bad omen: the worst of Lost is almost all related to season 3. More »

12:30 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By peril
3,296 views, 28 comments

environmental collapse

Reaping the Flip Flop Harvest on Kenya's Polluted Coast

Plastic flip flop sandals discarded in the oceans off the coast of Asia have formed a new kind of fauna on the coast of Northern Kenya. So many sandals wash ashore that over the past decade locals have begun harvesting them, turning them into colorful toys, and selling them for more money than they could make from fishing, the area's former main industry. After a 2003 documentary, Flip Flotsam, called attention to Kenya's flip flop harvests, a small nonprofit called UniqEco began methodically helping locals ply their craft via the Flip Flop Recycling Project. More »

7:40 AM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Annalee Newitz
54 views, Comment