August 2012
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Whale fossil discovered on Flint River, Georgia
From article:A Georgia Southern University team of professors and students Monday started excavating the fossil of a whale on the shore of the Flint River. The geology dig has been in the works for two years, and the team calls it a stunningly significant find.
Three students and two professors from Georgia Southern University dig carefully on...
Mountain Dew asks the internet to name its new...
Mountain Dew recently fired up a promotion called “Dub the Dew”, in which it asked the internet what it should name its new green apple flavored soda. Well, the internet responded, voting en masse with names like “Diabeetus”, “Gushin Grannie”, “Fapple” and “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong”.
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Watchcat organ
Man texts, "I need to quit texting," before... →
July 2012 was the hottest month in the US ever →
“In more than 117 years of records, July 2012 stands alone as not only the hottest July on record in the lower 48 United States, but also the hottest of any month on record in that time span. To put it another way, July 2012 was the hottest of more than 1,400 months that we’ve gone through since 1895.”
Weather.com/ NOAA
I’m all for being aware about climate and stuff, and this is an important...
Fox doesn't want to give back the movie rights to...
Before Marvel got into the movie business on its own, it sold the films rights for many of its titles to (at the time) more capable studios. Now that Marvel’s in the big time, they’re slowly trying to get back the rights to some of their most famous characters, held by Fox and Sony. Sony’s not showing any signs of giving up Spider-Man, and Fox recently affirmed they’re not wanting to give back...
Rare, snake-like, penis-like amphibian found in...
When engineers drained a section of the Madeira River in Brazil to create a hydroelectric dam, no one expected to find a pile of long pink dicks. Well, they look very much like dicks, but these are Atretochoana eiselti, a kind of blind amphibian that were thought to have been extinct. Also, penis.
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