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A former BP contractor who blocked a New Orleans TV news reporter from talking to cleanup crews working on a polluted beach in Grande Isle, Louisiana in June contacted the same reporter last Friday in order to criticize BP’s handling of the Gulf oil spill.

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Some days, I feel like this owl.

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Argentina becomes first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage.

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Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs, rest in peace.

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Via rm: 18th-century ship found at future WTC site.

"How science should be," #2408

When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur's appearance. Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the first thing that came to mind: Mojoceratops.