I haven't made it over to East Africa yet but it is for sure on my list! As a Sierra Leonean American, I've essentially traveled on the West side. I agree it is a very scary and just sad to think that many provinces/towns do not have access to proper health care and supplies are limited as is. Traditions and…

We just got back last week from a trip to East Africa and it was so sad to hear how much this was affecting them, in countries with no cases that are thousands of miles away from the outbreak. Our local guide said many folks had canceled scheduled trips, which is going to have a devastating effect on the economy of…

She should have done 30 minutes of the classics and then the new stuff. But then it would have been a Bey concert. Which would have suited me and half the world just fine.

My thoughts on the ice bucket challenge are complicated and not worth going into here.

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Uber, I've been concerned about your childhood because of all the marshmallow and fruit hating and so forth, but now that you tell me you were obsessed with sharks, I feel better. My 9-year-old can tell you all about sharks, too — don't EVEN get her started on the cookie-cutter shark. Or the goblin.

Dude, I will so talk shark with you. Goblin sharks freak me right out, but I look em up a few times a year so I can shriek and cry about how scary they are. What I like is the frill shark. They fancy. Someday when I'm scuba diving I really really really do/do not want to see a shark.

Woman, and MathWoman needs to be a superhero if there isn't one already!

Also, I actually went and googled "Goblin Shark," and holy shit! But even terrifying monster-animals don't deserve to go extinct.

While you can get the soup in the US, it's significantly more popular in China.

Apparently National Geographic Wild is running "Shark Fest" with only real docs about Sharks.

Well, they sort of do?

I wanted your second sentence to end differently - desperately hoping Lush rolled out shark shaped soap!!! Sigh.

I use "Shark Week" as a euphemism for menstruation, which makes this article 100% more entertaining. Ladies on their periods, having insatiable endangered shark cravings.

Spiders are awesome creatures. They live in a wide variety of environments, they tend to eat only pests (from a human perspective) and the vast majority of them stay the hell out of people's way while they do their thing.

Barbecue is derived from the word barbacoa, used by Taino Indians in the Caribbean to describe an elevated wooden rack on which they slow smoked at low temperatures fish, lizards, alligator, and other game.