Occasionally I shop at the Publix Supermarket just around the corner. During my last trip I noticed a sign on the front of my shopping cart:
- “This shopping cart will automatically stop if taken beyond the yellow line at the end of the parking lot”
I thought it was a joke – or at the very least, an idle threat designed to make people think twice about taking carts out of the lot. Now I find out this a new technology that actually works. It is estimated that up to $800 million worth of shopping carts go missing each year in the U.S. alone. Often, they are used by homeless people to carry their belongings, and the carts are eventually abandoned alongside Continue reading
A live webcast of the dissection of the largest colossal squid ever caught is scheduled for April 30th at the Te Papa Museum of New Zealand. Weighing nearly 1000 pounds and measuring the length of a school bus, the behemoth was caught in Antarctic waters in February of 2007 by a fishing vessel trolling for toothfish with long lines – single lines with many baited hooks. When the crew raised the lines they discovered the colossal squid, which was hooked when it tried to eat a toothfish caught on the line. Because 
