The Husband Chopping Board – $15.95

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I don’t know why this cutting board, with an anatomical design of a man, is named The Husband Chopping Board.  I can only guess. Whatever the reason, I have a feeling  that out there somewhere is one very angry wife and a very sorry husband.

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Way back in the 1870s, an Italian geologist named Antonio Stoppani proposed that people had introduced a new era, which he labeled the anthropozoic. Stoppani’s proposal was ignored; other scientists found it unscientific. The Anthropocene, by contrast, struck a chord. Human impacts on the world have become a lot more obvious since Stoppani’s day, in part because the size of the population has roughly quadrupled, to nearly seven billion. “The pattern of human population growth in the twentieth century was more bacterial than primate,” biologist E. O. Wilson has written. Wilson calculates that human biomass is already a hundred times larger than that of any other large animal species that has ever walked the Earth.

In 2002, when Crutzen wrote up the Anthropocene idea in the journal Nature, the concept was immediately picked up by researchers working in a wide range of disciplines. Soon it began to appear regularly in the scientific press. “Global Analysis of River Systems: From Earth System Controls to Anthropocene Syndromes” ran the title of one 2003 paper. “Soils and Sediments in the Anthropocene” was the headline of another, published in 2004.

More and more, geologists are coming around to the idea that humankind has such an effect on the earth that we are, indeed, living in the Anthropocene epoch. Read the entire story at National Geographic in a feature article that is part of the year-long 7 Billion project. Link

(Image credit: Mitch Epstein)

Redditor keef2000 made a snow “man.” That is all. Link -via Blame It On The Voices

“Don’t wait to find the ultimate act of love. Create the ultimate act of love.”

Link -Thanks, Abe Greenwald!

As repugnant as cannibalism is to our modern sensibilities, most of us could forgive instances where there was no murder involved, and the only alternative would be to starve to death. Read about five such cases in this post.

Perhaps the most famous act of cannibalism in recent history took place in the mountains of Chile during the winter of 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was carrying 45 passengers, including members of a rugby team and their families, when it crashed high in the Andes. Of the twenty-nine who survived the crash, eight died in an avalanche, leaving the remaining survivors with a whole heap of frozen meat and a difficult moral decision to make.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by milos87.

Amazing CCTV footage of a Turkish man who narrowly escapes a collision with a truck and a train.

File under "Lucky".

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by stinkyplum.

Got to love those Russian biologists! Dr. M.A. Menzbier (yes, a real person – an ornithologist and zoogeographer, actually) has found the reason why men are superior than fish, as published in the Nov 1931 issue of Modern Mechanix: Link