Sixty-five million years ago, the vertical wall below was a muddy flat which dinosaurs walked across.
Now, thanks to fossilization and plate movement, the flat is now a wall of solid stone and the footprints are beautifully preserved.
Source:
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2010/bolivias_dinosaur_wall.htm
Ultra Conservatives approve radical changes in Textbooks that will be used by millions of students in the coming decade.
Cutting out Thomas Jefferson and William Jefferson Clinton from the History pages and inserting Religious figures instead.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/13/texas-textbook-massacre-u_n_498003.html
Swedish researchers found that men who consumed the most calcium in food were 25 percent less likely to die over the next decade than their peers..
Religious people say the Lord works in mysterious ways.
Example: A British man accidentally fell asleep while making a pan of bacon. He was awoken by all of the smoke and, upon lifting up the pan, saw the image of Jesus Christ burned into it. Behold the awesome power of Bacon.
Source:
http://guyism.com/2010/03/man-sees-jesus-in-burnt-pan-of-bacon.html
In the mid 1990s, a craze swept Japan and crested its way onto American shores: Kids were going crazy for the Tamagotchi, an egg-shaped digital pet.
Source:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/tamagotchi-health/
This is the latest case of salt hysteria.
In 1976, the president of Tufts University said salt was "the most dangerous food additive of all." According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), salt is "perhaps the deadliest ingredient in the food supply." Bloomberg recently compared salt to asbestos.
Source:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/12/a-matter-of-bad-taste
Ford's Crown Victoria-based police interceptor will finally end production late next year.
This is its replacement — the 2012 Ford Police Interceptor. Other than the movie Robocop, it's the first time Ford's Taurus has served as a purpose-built patrol car.
Source:
http://jalopnik.com/5491850/2012-ford-police-interceptor-the-crown-vics-robocop-replacement
Editors from Random House's Del Rey and Spectra imprints have created their own NCAA-style bracket in which 32 of genre fiction's best known heroes, villains and beasts are placed head-to-head in a six-round battle to the finish.
Source:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/march-madness-the-geek-edition/
Now that were well into March, Shamrock shakes are popping up all over the country.
A little history of the delightful shake, plus a graphic showing the full spectrum of all McDonald's milkshakes.
Source:
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22360/94548-they-re-baaaack--shamrock-shakes-return
(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab researchers have shown that the biochemical activity of a key player in cancer metastasis can be altered by the application of a direct physical force.
This new way in which cells can sense and respond to physical forces presents a new road for future cancer therapies.