Using yesterday's material for tomorrows furniture.

Scrapile is a New York company that creates beautiful furniture and accessories from reclaimed wood. 

Michel has a tip about how and which oils to prepare your food with. Higher flash points are a good thing they are indicative of the antioxidants that can keep you healthy.

Dr. Patricia Fine turns up the heat with her healthier version of Chicken Fricassee.

He was the first man in space—free falling to the earth, traveling without a vehicle, breaking the sound barrier, wearing only a space suit, carrying a film camera. On August 16, 1960, he ascended to 19 miles above the earth in a space age helium balloon called the Excelsior III gondola, and then he jumped. For a man who fell to earth, David Bowie ain’t got nothin on Joseph Kittinger.

Perhaps it’s something astrological that’s stirring up the cryptozoological: on the same day that BoingBoing posted about Loren Coleman’s Cryptozoology Top 10, the BBC features an entertaining video on the woolly mammoth, which discusses building a real woolly mammoth from newly discovered DNA. (Heck, while we’re at it, maybe there’s a cryptozoological explanation for the NYC subway strike…)