Taxidermist Brings Flying Monkeys and Frankensquirrels to UnlifeSource: io9.com
Need an unusual gift for the cryptozoologist in your life? Sculptor Sabrina Brewer's medium is dead animals, which she mixes and matches to create fantastical creatures, from the more traditional griffins and unicorns to El Chupacabra and undead three-headed squirrels.
Tracking Down Those Unicorns Source: slog.thestranger.com
Last week White House appointee John Walters claimed on C-SPAN that finding people in jail for "first-time nonviolent possession of marijuana… is like finding a unicorn … because it doesn't exist." I had a hunch that some of the 775,138 people arrested for pot possessio …

The stem cell debate is raging in the Senate, Bush is threatening to veto, and the future of rationality is dangerously close to the chopping block. Once again, America is allowing unjustified superstition to impede potentially stunning scientific progress.