Emptying Pockets

I found this article to be genuinely disturbing. The money quote being thus: "Unstopped until they walked up to a security guard's car and surrendered". Yikes. What would have happened if Nanna decided to take over a small country, or to leverage a political issue in the US with a homemade suitcase bomb? Somebody ought to fire those folks and get some real security in place. Set the motion sensors at chest height if you're so worried about wildlife!
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I halfway expected this to be part of a Mythbusters episode. I'm glad a cost-effective method of testing construction practices is in place, but the question remains; what would happen if you added C4 to the building? Anyone? 

At any rate; I'm all for building bomb-proof buildings and this would greatly reduce the lead time in waiting for feedback on reinforcement techniques.
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It's a little unfortunate that every time Michigan gets in the news, it's always bad. That is to say that government policy in Michigan seems to support poor business practices while ignoring the property rights and health of its citizens. Shame, shame, shame. And a million gallons of crude leaking into the Kalamazoo? Don't you think that could have hit the wire sooner? Speaking of which; has anyone looked at inland applications of this? Seems oil munching bacteria would be a handy thing to have around.

At any rate; certainly looks like a land grab, unless their maintenance trucks have increased in width by about 400%.
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One day our children may say that the canary in the coal mine on global warming for most people should have been the Lemmings in Greenland. An excellent study on a drop in population due to increased warming. They haven't pegged the reason for the collapse yet, but the most plausible explanation (lack of population increase due to less time in the sack underneath fallen snow) holds up to the common sense test. The scary thing about studies like this is the domino effect that drops in population in staple foods has for higher tier predators. Pretty soon the whole thing goes pear-shaped in ecosystem collapse.

Photo; Niels Schmidt

Plus, that picture makes the stoat look like one handsome bastard, right? Hey, good for him; a good hunt is everything out in the real world.