At Brookfield Zoo, there used to be a cage of free-flight fruit bats. Ah, memories, sure, people got urinated on, but it was an amazing ...

***NOTE: Apologies for not doing an entry yesterday. There were two successive power outages that more or less prevented it from getting po...

Now for something completely different but nonetheless heartbreaking: A lot of the species in  Finding Nemo are in danger of going extinct...

So, for today, I found two entries that really struck me as news. They're both eye-openers, both relate closely to modern culture, and ...

Sure, they'll never get an awesome story glamourizing how awesome they are at surviving, but you still have to admire that cockroaches ...

This week is another "different" entry. I am not covering yet another random, gross food from China. Rather, this "They Actu...

What lovely weather we are having in Chicago. Over 6 inches of snow, and having to shovel it, gives me perfectly logical ground to question...