Bet you terrestrial-centric bigots didn't realize it, but today just so happens to be Fish Amnesty Day, which is billed as "a day to recognize fish as living animals with rights and in need of protection just the same as other vertebrates.”
Summer is full of the sorts of hidden dangers that come with being drunk and out in the hot sun for longer than usual. You could fall asleep in a wading pool and be urinated upon by your neighbor’s dog. A shark could attack you while you’re flipping around on your boogie board like a dying seal. You could wear a…
What happened to the Discovery Channel? Is the demand for majestic wildebeest documentaries really that low, or is the demand for reality shows featuring naked white people pooping outdoors in exotic locations really that high? It must be, otherwise we wouldn't be getting such a robust lineup of naked survivalist…
Ugh, mating season. So much pressure to deposit your sperms in the fittest female's genital opening, amirite?!?!? Are you a dude-fish having no luck with the fly honeys in your area? Well, it might be because you're focusing too much on the ladies, and not enough on nipping erotically at the gennies of your bros.…
Um! If any girlfish are reading this, please beware when you come across male freshwater llanos mosquitofish, otherwise known as Gambusia quadruncus. The evolution of the females of this Mexican species has given them a large ball of tissue that blocks most of their genital canal in order to allow them to keep away…
Out of all the foods that could be full of neurotoxins and dolphin ghosts—why does it always have to be tuna? Delicious, delicious tuna. Tuna is a wonder-food that comes either in a can or in a fish. The canned kind is cheap, and is where tuna melts come from, which makes it a national treasure. The fish kind is…
Before pressing play on the above video, do yourself a favor and take a moment to think about it. You could go the rest of your life having never seen a tank of wriggling fish that happen to look like detached, bloated and reanimated human penises. Would this be such a bad thing? Maybe not! Instead of watching the…
This sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but, alas, it is real: There are now radioactive Bluefin tuna swimming off the shores of the United States. How did they get that way? It happened as a result of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors that was set off after the huge earthquake in Japan…
Good news, ladies! Society has discovered another new thing that's wrong with you, which means another opportunity for you to make yourself more attractive for your man. Score! Turns out, the color of your vagina is gross and everyone hates it. So bleach that motherfucker. Bleach it right now!
Women have been clued into the fact that their diets affect their fertility for a long while now, but a new study has found that what men are eating might matter just as much. The researchers found that the kinds of fat men ate made a difference in the quality of their sperm. For instance, saturated fat found in the…
A new study shows that eating fatty fish like salmon, mackerel, cod, and herring can cut heart attack and stroke risk in young women, even if their intake doesn't reach recommended daily levels. You've probably already heard that fish is good for your heart, but most studies focused on men or older women, so it's good…
San Francisco, which previously made headlines for its efforts to ban circumcision
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Scientists have discovered a "series of epidermal outgrowths" on the upper lips of male Mexican molly fish are, "a previously unrecognized sexually selected trait" — It seems female mollies prefer males with mustaches. [PhysOrg via Newser]
Japanese scientists have developed a see-through goldfish, which they say provides an alternative to dissection. The fish can live up to 20 years, and one scientist said "you can watch its whole life" through its translucent skin. [Daily Mail]
[Munich, December 23. Image via Getty.]
Secretary of State Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez has announced plans to ban fish pedicures in New York. She calls the practice - in which carp feed on the dead skin of customers' feet - unsanitary. We call it gross and unnecessary. [NYPost]
Jonathan Safran Foer's Times Magazine essay on vegetarianism brings up an interesting point: for many people, becoming vegetarian means breaking with a lot of the cherished food memories that have made us who we are.
The mighty housecat, her body like a coiled spring, prepares for her next kill. She crouches, she springs, she... well, just watch. [BuzzFeed]
François Vatel, "the first celebrity chef," set the bar high. Preparing a dinner for Louis XIV, "he was informed that the fish for the meal would not arrive on time, so he committed suicide." [TheSmartSet]
It's obvious every time we write a post on vegetarianism: lots of people love meat. But are some meats better for the planet than others? And what about the half-vegetarian's flesh of choice, fish?
• Last Sunday an art installation featuring 20 female performers inside a Plexiglas cube was set up outside St. Mark's Church. The piece is designed to raise awareness about women's issues in North Korea. •
Today on Good Morning America, Jeremy Piven earnestly explained why he was too ill to stay with his Broadway show, but Diane Sawyer had a medical fact to contradict almost everything he said.
Lots of anti-birth control pill news on the wires today. The first story comes from the Economist by way of Canada: A Canuck scientist has found that extra estrogen, which can get into rivers and lakes through the toilet-flushed urine of birth control takers, kills fish. Karen Kidd, an ecotoxicologist at the University …
