LATEST ADDITIONS

Carl Zimmer gives us the straight, er, poop on tapeworms.

Today Kurt Cobain would have been 40. Seems like yesterday when we were seeing that searing image of his suicide: the photo taken in the room where he died, of his Converse All Stars, still on his feet, sticking out from behind a piece of furniture.

Pay attention, class. This little rope-climbing device looks pretty slick. As the article says, the real trick isn't ascending the rope, but ascending the rope without damaging it. The rule of thumb we used when I did technical caving was to retire any rope we had "shocked" with an impact or weight-bearing kink.

Kind of cool—and very well done, although the first thing I loaded in was "argh," which Kate could not pronounce.