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News

Welsh Park Considers Bumblebees As Sentries

8:00PM January 25, 2012 | Kristen Philipkoski

Marijuana farmers tried it with bears, and now a parks and recreation department in Wales wants to do it with bees: critters as cheap security. More »


Online

Time-Travelling Victorian Torso Found on Google Street View

9:45AM March 29, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Google Street view has given us so much, especially in the realm of embarrassing drunken escapades. Here’s something new: A time-travelling torso from Victorian England captured “coincidentally” at the most supernatural site in Wales.

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Science

Researchers Create Computer Models of Staggering Drunks to Aid City Planning

1:45AM July 25, 2008 | John Mahoney

A team of Welsh scientists have spent long nights camped out in a busy nightlife neighbourhood of Cardiff from 11pm to 3am with one goal–studying the way Welshmen stagger when they’re shitfaced in order to build an accurate computer model of the phenomenon. They aim to use their data to help city planners design streets that are safer for late night revellers. Now this is some research I can get behind.

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