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Tuesday Bowhead Whales 27 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am
The bowhead whale has the largest mouth of any animal. Lyle Beniga and his dancers took over a library for an afternoon. And then some librarians remade “Sabotage.” Go, libraries! In the memoir Mo’ ...
Monday Belugas 26 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
Baby Beluga. The DOJ continues to play strange and surprisingly ham-fisted games in the case against Apple, even after the trial’s conclusion. As reported in the Wall Street Journal and GigaOm on Fri...
Friday Basilosauruses 23 Aug 2013 | 09:05 am
The Basilosaurus lived 40-34 million years ago, was 60 ft. long, and had GIANT TEETH TO EAT YOU WITH. First, Barnes & Noble launches a big advertising campaign in the UK to bump up languishing Nook s...
Thursday Fin Whales 22 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
Only the Blue Whale is bigger than the Fin Whale and the Blue Whale is HUGE. (Image: Wikimedia) The British human rights group Reprieve is accusing U.S. authorities of preventing a copy of Alexander ...
Wednesday Omura’s Whales 21 Aug 2013 | 09:15 am
The scientific description of Omura’s whale wasn’t made until 2003, which is awesome. A very rare and impressive whale. In what Laura Hazard Owen described as a “train wreck of an investor’s call,” ...
Tuesday Spade-Toothed Whales 20 Aug 2013 | 09:35 am
The world”s rarest whale. Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble have resolved their rough and tumble dispute. Both the cause of that disagreement and the terms of their resolution have remained largely...
Monday Grey Whales 19 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am
The longlist for this year’s German Book Prize is out: 20 titles, with some names that may be familiar to English-speaking audiences (Uwe Timm, Terezia Mora, Clemens Meyer, Urs Widmer) and many that a...
Friday Pygmy Killer Whales 16 Aug 2013 | 09:21 am
Free Willy? Free Willy who? I only acknowledge the existence of the pygmy killer whale. “No matter what Bezos says now, once his purchase of the Post closes, scheduled for the fall, he’s almost certa...
Thursday Antarctic Minke Whales 15 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Antarctic minke whales are slightly larger than common minke whales, and are therefore cooler than them. Yesterday, Amazon Publishing announced a new biography series called “Icons.” The first ten su...
Wednesday Bryde’s Whales 14 Aug 2013 | 02:56 am
John Anderson, who named the whale, described the type specimen thusly: it “exhausted itself by its furious struggles” to get free and “roared like an elephant” before finally expiring. The art on Am...
