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I attended the Atlanta Travel and Adventure Show over the weekend, where I listened to a couple of talks by Pauline Frommer, creator of Pauline Frommer Guidebooks, who was spilling over with delightful tips on how to travel free and cheap.
Here’s what’s free right now in travel:
Earlier this week, sloth adorability really hit me.
It was because of this video. [Click over to watch it.]
Here’s what else I know about the sloth: It doesn’t do much. It doesn’t move, really. Not that it’s lazy. I mean, don’t get the sloth wrong; once it gets a good grip on a tree branch, it’ll hang upside down from that tree branch through thick and thin — childbirth, sleeping. You name it. And a sloth sleeps A LOT — 15 to 20 hours a day.
Leaf-cutter Ants and the Future of Space Agriculture
by Robert Lamb | March 21, 2011
An ancient race has come to dominate a single agricultural crop, one in which they’ve invested everything to sustain their massive population. They’re one vicious blight away from starvation, but at this point there’s no returning to the source. Their precious crop is a million years extinct in the natural world and there’s no going home. It sounds like an ideal plight for a futuristic generation ship, adrift among the stars with a belly full of space crops, but this is of course the story of the leaf-cutter ant.
Last week I traveled to Costa Rica with my wife and yes, I experienced a diverse sampling of all Central America has to offer: volcanoes, rain forests, violent stomach illness, breathtaking flora and some of the more remarkable fauna on Earth. And yes, we got to meet the two-toed sloth in its natural habitat.
Why do they climb down from the branches to poop?
See Fish that Walk at Cocos Island
by Amanda Arnold | February 3, 2010
The other day I was in the break room getting some hot chocolate when Rachel, Coolest Stuff podcaster, started telling me about fish that can walk. I was like, “Rachel, this hot chocolate is watered down. Is the machine broken?” And she was like, “It’s called the frogfish. Look it up.”
Just kidding — that’s not exactly how the conversation went. But anyway, since I like it when animals do things I don’t expect, I decided to research this fish that walks.
The Big Cypress Swamp is an essential part of the greater Everglades ecosystem in Florida. Take a swamp tour in this episode of The Coolest Stuff on the Planet.
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