Animal Cruelty

Cars

Futuristic EarthRace Boat, Lasers Used To Fight Japanese Whalers

5:40PM December 31, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Regardless of your feelings about whaling, you have to admit the fight just got a whole lot more interesting. Check out this video of a Sea Shepherd–manned (from Whale Wars) carbon-fibre, biofuel-powered EarthRace Trimaran blinding a Japanese whaling boat with lasers. More »


Gadgets

Lobster Taser: Now We’ve Tasered Everything

7:20PM November 24, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

The lobster taser, which looks to me mostly like a lobster photocopier, is supposedly a more humane way of dispatching the delicious bottom-feeders than the normal “stab in the brain” or “boil alive” methods. Also, tasers. More »


Gadgets

Elephant-Subduing Device Appears To Be Inspired By Star Wars

3:25PM November 24, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Angry elephants are a big issue. That’s why someone invented a remote-controlled device that shoots out nylon rope and binds rampaging elephants’ legs. Sounds familiar somehow. How’d those snow speeders in Star Wars subdue the ATATs again? More »


Science

NASA To Bomb Monkeys With Gamma Radiation

4:40AM November 14, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Dear NASA, I love you, but come on… monkey radiation tests? What is this? The ’50s? Are you going to resuscitate J. Edgar Hoover next? Didn’t you guys see Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt saving the monkeys in Project X? More »