City in the Caspian
The Sea
In the middle of the Caspian Sea, a Soviet-era settlement called "Oil Rocks" still floats, complete with cinema, bakeries, and a lemonade factory. Population: 933.
Disappearing Islands and Buried Treasure
The Sea
The ephemeral island of Ferdinandea is claimed by four nations, and only appears above the surface of the sea every hundred years.
Interview: James Howard Kunstler
Time
“When everybody is a zombie, whose brains are left to eat?” asks James Howard Kunstler, acclaimed author of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere.
Mutant Shrimp Monsters
The Sea
"Horribly mutated shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crabs and shrimp" populate the post-BP Gulf of Mexico.
The Accidental Hairdresser
Marriage
This just in from the frontiers of medical science: rolling down a grassy knoll turns you gay.
Presidential Plagiarism
School
The President of Hungary has lost his PhD, but did he really need it in the first place?
