The Allen Almanac

For those that don’t know, Crater of Diamonds is a state park in Arkansas. It’s the world’s only diamond site open to the public. You’re allowed to go there and look for rocks and whatever you find you can keep, no matter if it is a diamond, pebble, or whatever. Normally, people [...]

Welcome, friends, to the 11th annual Talk Like a Pirate Day! Yarr! Thanks to Dougal Campbell for the Pirate filter. Don’t worry land lubbers. Tomorrow everything will be back as normal.
For those of you with weak pirate talking skills, here is a helpful guide:

For over a century club bosses stubbornly resisted the march of time and capitalism to keep their team strip sponsor-free, at a time when every other club from football’s upper echelons right down to your average Sunday League side had given in to financial expediency. To be fair this may have profited them, with their [...]

Deep underground on the Franco-Swiss border, someone will throw a switch next year to start one of the most ambitious experiments in history, probing the secrets of the universe and possibly finding new dimensions.
The Large Hadron Collider - a 27km-long circular particle accelerator at the CERN experimental facility near Geneva, will smash protons into [...]

At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish. In this way, the dolphins help [...]

1 Take a picture of a cat in front of a monitor
2 Display picture from (1) on monitor
3 goto 1
Check it out.

and he’s better than me

12 If this doesn’t work, we’re trying in vitro! In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to a newly married, childless couple to cover the [...]