From my new favorite website, The Daily Galaxy:
Cosmological calculations indicate that the vast array of objects we can detect are just foam on top of a vast invisible sea of matter we can’t detect, and two teams think the key to the undetectable lies in our very own star.
Foam on top of a vast invisible sea—I’ve been saying that for years. More on dark matter, and lots of great images, not including the key to the undetectable, over here.
There’s lots to love here. According to the author:
If these human/animal hybrids really existed the world would look different. But we have already problems with accepting people of a different skin or culture. So I am afraid it would make the whole thing a lot more complicated. Still I think they would bring a nice little touch of a land of myths and legends in our everyday life.
Right you are, brother. Right you are. Dude takes requests. Email him.
Via Something Awful.
Let’s see. The internet is in a meme deficit and along comes the spore creature creator and what do we get? COCK MONSTERS FUCKING COCK MOSTERS!!! They’re everywhere and we loves them, hard. Youtube is swimming with COCK MONSTERS. [via Google News]
Related, Jason Kottke sends us a link to a Goatse Spore creature, below, and adds that the creature’s dong flops around just like the rubber dildo in the video we just posted. So it does, Mr. Kottke, so it does.
A few more after the jump
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A grim, amazing bit of reporting, about a life that’s almost too hard to imagine:
Samuel Mluge steps outside his office and scans the sidewalk. His pale blue eyes dart back and forth, back and forth, trying to focus. The sun used to be his main enemy, but now he has others. Mr. Mluge is an albino, and in Tanzania now there is a price for his pinkish skin. “I feel like I am being hunted,” he said.
Discrimination against albinos is a serious problem throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but recently in Tanzania it has taken a wicked twist: at least 19 albinos, including children, have been killed and mutilated in the past year, victims of what Tanzanian officials say is a growing criminal trade in albino body parts.
Many people in Tanzania — and across Africa, for that matter — believe albinos have magical powers. They stand out, often the lone white face in a black crowd, a result of a genetic condition that impairs normal skin pigmentation and strikes about 1 in 3,000 people here. Tanzanian officials say witch doctors are now marketing albino skin, bones and hair as ingredients in potions that are promised to make people rich.
Image: Guillaume Bonn/NYT
Having partially developed inside caterpillars, the larvae of the wasps manipulate their hosts into watching over them as a mother or bodyguard might.
Yeah that’s right…For those of you who prefer to read your news, link to article on New Scientist
Previously, Zombie Locusts on DG
Some amazing pics from Brent Stirton, who documented the search party for four mountain gorillas killed in Eastern Congo last year. One of them was a silverback alpha male, the leader of the group, who was shot.
When I first read about this family that walks on all fours, I thought it was a hoax. It’s not:
