Daily Shizu (neither a daily nor a shizu)

A recent poll on Mister Poll had over 4,000 people vote on what the best television show has ever been. Topping the list: The Wire. (Not exactly scientific, though...)

If you're into dinosaurs, turns out they got lucky. To rise to the top in evolutionary power, that is. It was a spot of bad luck at the end...

The USS Dexter, which in 1929 chased and sank the rum-running Nova Scotian ship I'm Alone in international waters and sparked an international crisis, is going to be scuttled in Lake Michigan to provide Chicago tourists a scuba-diving attraction.

Apparently the five nations that have arctic coastline are not viewed as reputable caretakers in balancing the economic and environmental portfolios of the north, and "international experts" are saying a treaty (perhaps like the one that governs the use of Antarctica) is required. I'm sure the five nations in question are in no conflict of interest in making sure no harm comes to the environment rather than sucking every possible resource out of the area for economic gain...?

Are we still trying to justify Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) as a real sickness? More studies about the "happy hormone" that gets depleted.

And apparently there is a tiny organism that can survive in space. It's not in the article, but is this support for the idea that life came to Earth on the back of an asteroid?

Here's a cool one for the hockey-history fans: a memoir referencing early hockey games, giving insight into the founding and development of the sport.

Since carbon is one of those greenhouse gases, there are warnings coming out saying the destruction of wetlands could release a sort of "carbon bomb" into the atmosphere.

And something I've always lived: drummers need the stamina of athletes.

It's been about 50 years since the rise of the 1960s women's liberation movement (what those of us today call feminism, though the 1960s was really the second wave, which was then followed by the third wave). Here's an interesting article about what empowerment means to today's women.

More scariness in the environment: there are "dead zones" on the ocean floor, where there isn't enough oxygen for life because of the nitrogen-based fertilizer run-off from farms and so on. And the ocean "dead zones" are getting bigger.

The Inuit did not kick the Vikings out of North America.

There's a light bulb that has worked continuously for 70 years in Great Britain.

While the talk this article is promoting has passed, it is still an interesting call-to-arms regarding the growing power of economic corporations over political institutions, and the creation of a new global elite... which is not better than any other "global elite".

There are efforts being undertaken to revive British Columbia's basking shark population. Yes, we (used to) have sharks!

And a fossil hunt in Manitoba found an 80-million-year-old sea creature.

The Amazon hides an ancient urban landscape.

More interesting information about the demise of the Franklin Expedition.

And there's an object that goes around the Sun backwards. (Maybe it's the rest of us that are backwards...?)