EPA Kills Bees

Okay, the title may be a bit of an overstatement but according to some random site that we've never heard of that is obviously legitimate, a leaked government document says that the Environmental Protection Agency knowingly allowed a bee-toxic pesticide to be wildly used as a pre-treater for corn seeds. (corn seed pre-treatment? wtf?)

The pesticide, known as Clothianidin, is lethal to a variety of bee species including the I'm not yet extinct but I will be soon and you'll all be dead suckers honey bee and it's even rarer cousin, visible only for a few days each year, the halloween honey bee. (see photo below)


Thanks, EPA!

The halloween honey bee

[images via illinois.edu and flickr licensed under creative comments so EIGN was legally allowed to post and modify this file for non-commercial purposes]

Most Awesome Things of All Time - #95 - Apple Pie

#95 in our ongoing project of the 100 most awesome things of all time...

Apple Pie


photo by eign friend k. via flickr

Flying Snakes and the Department of Defense

According to this washington post report, the Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (you know, those guys that created the internet) has been funding research for FLYING FUCKING SNAKES. No one here at EIGN has ever heard of these terrifying creatures abominations that are native to China and Southeast Asia before.

...and here we have yet another reason I am glad I don't live in China:


video via washingtonpost.com

The End Postponed? Or has it already happened?

So it may have already happened.... the Mayan last days, 12-21-2012. But now someone, somewhere, in some textbook, is suggesting that the date may be inaccurate.

And, even scarier, it may have ALREADY HAPPENED!
The textbook "'Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World,' argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years." (via news.yahoo.com)

Awesome. But, on the plus side, if it's been pushed back by 50 to 100 years EIGN staff may actually have time to finish the most awesome / least awesome things of all time. Win.

Happy Fall.

Least Awesome Things of All Time: #95 - Watching Your Team Lose the Stanley Cup

#95 in our ongoing project of the 100 least awesome things of all time...


#95 - Watching your team lose the stanley cup


[from courierpostonline.com i think]

Most Awesome Things of All Time - #96 - Winning the Stanley Cup

#96 in our ongoing project of the 100 most awesome things of all time...

Winning the Stanley Cup...




...and all the rewards that come with it.


(congratulations chicago)

Least Awesome Things of All Time: #96 - Losing the Stanley Cup

#96 in our ongoing project of the 100 least awesome things of all time...

Losing the Stanley Cup





[from courierpostonline.com and philly.com i think]

It's Online

The Large Hadron Collider is Online.

We're Doomed.