Just Weird – A city in the north-east part of Brazil has found a way to keep track of its students without the constant nit-picking and fussing that is usually required of teachers. The school has embedded RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips in the student’s uniforms. If...

Animal Rights — Earlier this month, we posted about IFEEL, a rapper who is bringing attention to the plights of animals through his hip-hop styled lyrics. For his latest project, IFEEL has written a song from the perspective of these creatures and critters entitled “Thank You.”...

Animal Rights – Doctors and zoologists have been researching American Black Bears and they found something interesting. The bears are able to pull off a feat some of the most critically wounded humans wish they could manage — they can heal themselves while they sleep. Researchers...

Animal Rights – Bonsai is an art. It is also a business, and one that is coming with cost to the white-headed langur, an endangered monkey of Vietnam. Much of the problem stems around the desire for bonsai growers for the Ficus benjamica, a fig that is regularly taken out from the root...

Just Weird – Due to housing and space restrictions, many Japanese in Tokyo are unable to keep pets. As a result, “cat cafes” have been opened to serve the needs of these animal lovers. New laws, set to protect animals, are putting these businesses at risk of closing. Cat...

Just Weird – Shayne, a liver chestnut thoroughbred that is believed to be the world’s oldest horse, is a mind-boggling 51-years-old. He’s even in better health than many 51-year-old humans, with the only nods to his elderly status being a few gray hairs and a case of mild...

Just Weird – Technology has been taking over within every aspect of people’s lives, so why not include zoos into the mix? Cloned lions, tigers, and robotic animals are the future of zoos according to 21 zoo professionals and researchers at a conference held at Canisius College in...

Animal Rights – Animals Australia, an animal advocacy group, has found that some of the largest chicken producers in Australia are misleading consumers by touting their products as “barn raised” and “cage free,” when in actuality the chickens are products of...

Animal Rights – Italian police have rescued nearly 500 puppies from smugglers within the past two weeks in a mission that they are calling “Operation Bulldog.” A Hungarian truck was stopped on an Italian highway in “the border zone with Austria and Slovenia,”...

Animal Rights – André Ford, a Royal College of Art architecture student, has come up with what is perhaps one of the most offensive ideas for a solution to the cramped living conditions of factory-farm chickens; vertical chicken farms, “where lobotomized birds” can be...

Environment – It’s that time of year again and the Iowa eagle cams are back! The Raptor Resource Project (RRP) has flipped the switch that will allow millions of people around the world share in the birth of baby eagles. Two cameras, one automated and fixed, the other with...

Celebrity Charities – The Onyx and Breezy Foundation has teamed up with several celebrities, including Kelly Osbourne, Peter Facinelli, Miley Cyrus, Eric Stonestreet, and Billy Ray Cyrus, for the “Twitter for the Critters Celebrity Challenge,” to raise money for animals in...

Animal Rights – After rescuing two manatees from winter weather last year, Sea World recently released Bodacious and Mud Puppy into a canal off of Banana River in Satellite Beach, Florida where the waters are warm. The two rescued sea cows were nursed back to health by Sea World’s...

Animal Rights – After pushing for the 13th amendment (the one which prohibits slavery) to be applied to animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)’s lawsuit against Sea World has been dismissed. The quarrel between the marine theme park and the animal rights group...

Animal Rights – Move over dating websites, there’s a new way to find your perfect match — as long as you’re looking for a dog or cat. “Meet My Match” is a color-coded program that evaluates shelter pets in effort to match their personalities, energy levels,...

Animal Rights – SPAM manufacturer Hormel has stated it will eliminate most of it’s use of gestation crates by the rather distant 2017. Though it is a positive step forward for the treatment of farm animals, for some, including the animals themselves, the practice cannot go away...

Animal Rights – An endangered, 75 lb., Southern River female Terrapin was released into the Sre Ambel river in southwestern Cambodia earlier this week. The turtle was gifted to Cambodia by the Wildlife Conservation Society based in New York, who co-manages reintroducing the terrapin...

Animal Rights – A Chinese blogger is responsible for saving over 1,000 dogs from slaughter and human consumption, and opening up the possibility of their adoption. The blogger, who writes under the name of Peng and volunteers for the Chongqing Small Animal Protection Association, noticed...

Environment – If things keep going as they are, the Sumatran elephant could be extinct in as little as 30 years. The elephants were listed as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, “after their numbers dropped to between 2,400...

Animal Rights – Grant Michael Teahan, a farmer in the heart of New Zealand, is facing the equivalent of a $40,000 dollar fine or 12 months in prison for spray painting hawks red after a Dannervirke District Court judge found Teahan guilty of ill-treatment of animals. Birdwatchers were...

Animal Rights – Elephants at Munich, Germany’s Hellabrunn Zoo, lost a young member of their herd. Lola, the calf who passed away, was just 3-months-old. She was born with a heart defect and surgeons at the zoo had planned groundbreaking surgery to repair the pulmonary condition....

Environment – In what will certainly turn the stomach of vegetarians and animal lovers, an amateur drone pilot captured a photograph showing a winding river of blood flowing from a Dallas meat packing plant. Worse still, it is shown flowing into the nearby Trinity River. Repulsed by the...

Animal Rights – The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has upheld the decision not to allow Bioculture, Ltd. to build a primate breeding facility in Guayama, Puerto Rico. Bioculture’s initial plan involved building a facility that would house 4,000 poop-slinging primates captured from the...

Animal Rights – A number of celebrities have come out in support of animal rights as part of a virtual “dog march” this week. Comedian Ricky Gervais, television star Victoria Stillwell, and actress Kristin Bauer are all contributing to the World Society for the Protection of...

Animal Rights – South Africa has something of a controversy on its hands. The recent decision to auction off a white rhinoceros hunting permit has caused a debate between animal rights activists and national conservationists. The country has decided to auction off the hunting permit (for...

Opinion – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Hindu nationalist party in India, attributes its recent successful win to that time tested miracle elixir we all guzzle, cow urine. And, as incredible as this stuff is, the BJP is hoping to make it available to the people as a filtered,...