Madness? Well actually, this new bottle (cum gel dispenser) is actually a fantastic little piece of kit. Containing 680ml of liquid and two sachets worth of gel, the Gelbot bottle will hydrate and fuel you without the need to slow......

You may recall that back in September I reported on an Eastern School District meeting (back when such affairs were calmer) part of which was a presentation by Leo Broderick and Mary Boyd on bottled water and why it should be avoided. Although I poked fun at their long-winded presentation, the heart...

Reuters: It's hard to visualize a water crisis while driving the lush boulevards of Los Angeles, golfing Arizona's green fairways or watching dancing Las Vegas fountains leap more than 20 stories high. So look Down Under. A decade into its worst drought in a hundred years Australia is a lesson of wh...

Sorry to go literary on you. I believe the term is poetic justice. I recently suggested giving every Clean Coal Congress critter a pail and sand shovel, a one-way ticket to Roane County and no health coverage, and elsewhere commented on what a mockery our “elected” representatives were m...

A week ago today Jason Holleman and Emily Evans made a admirable effort to amend inequities in Metro Water billing out of the Mayor's rate increases to no avail.  24 council members voted with Mayor Dean to insist that big businesses, which generate more stormwater run-off, actually pay less for th...

Image: Google After 3 Times It's Officially a Trend, Right? Good thing that the EPA is getting more serious about keeping an eye on coal ash, because it sure doesn't seem like the current system is working. Just in the past few months we reported two big spills: 2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal...

LET’S JUST FUEL THIS MEGHAN MCCAIN/ANN COULTER FEUD FOR A FEW MORE MINUTES AND THEN KILL OURSELVES: Speaking of death, have you heard about this thing where Ann Coulter and Bill Maher are on a “debate tour” with Mark Halperin serving as moderator? Does one actually pay to attend th...

PoultryCast 0147 Show Notes: Microbiologist Arthur Hinton, Jr. reviews his IPSF presentation on the influence of water hardness on the ability of water to rinse bacteria from the skin of processed broilers....

We may not have mutated beavers (jokes on this topic to the beaver thread, please!), but life in Australia is still interesting. I’ve never had a roo in the house, but I once had to remove a green tree snake which had come in through the window. And that reminds me of my favourite Australian t...

The Cloud Umbrella is an umbrella that you blow up when it starts to rain using it's pump-handle. Then it looks like a cloud and all the passers-by get a laugh at the cleverness that is your umbrella. Just kidding. They wonder why you're carrying around bunch of white beach balls on the end of a sti...