yesterday i learned that you can purchase coffins from costco. weird.

I had trouble thinking of a good topic for blogging this week. So I decided to turn to my no-fail entertainment website: The BBC News. No, the state of the world is not generally entertaining. But after I read the BBC I feel informed, and it’s just plain fun to hear the news scrolling through my brain in a British accent. There are also sometimes fun little puzzles, like “try to tell if the British person who wrote this article is being funny or not.” (British humor sometimes still eludes me.)

Without further ado, here are a few things you can go check out at the BBC news website:

Cuttlefish apparently can learn to recognize their prey while still in the embryo. Sweet! Who knew? If we had clear glass stomachs, could our baby embryos learn to recognize the alphabet before they’re born?

The top story for NASA is that the astronaut’s toilet is now fixed. While I think that’s hilarious, I also think it could be good PR for NASA. When I was in third grade, learning about how astronauts slept and ate and used the bathroom IN SPACE was the coolest thing ever. I bet there are a lot of 3rd graders out there who are even now, as we speak, learning some aspects of space engineering because of NASA’s broken toilet.

Some lady in Sussex hatched a baby emu. Sold as a novelty food at some local store, this lady bought three eggs and put them in a chicken-egg incubator. Two were duds. Apparently this lady is all about rescuing animals, especially unusual ones, and she’s already on the look out for potential mates for her new, baby emu.

Also, this is not on the BBC, but Greg’s house got a new baby kitten this week. It is so cute and tiny! When it purrs, its entire body shakes. And it is very, very curious.

Margherita pizzas get protected by international law? It’s true. And I can attest to both the amazingness of a great Italian pizza and the plastic imitation variety being prevalent. . . although I’ve never been to Naples itself. Maybe next time I visit Italy? Or maybe not, as everyone who visited there said it was a very scary, dirty city.

And last but not least, a man in a wheelchair got caught on the front end of a semi. He was held into the chair by a seatbelt, and who knows how the wheelchair was held onto the front of the semi. (The BBC version of this story was fantastic, because it used the word “lorry” instead of “semi.” Lorry!) Anyway, eventually the truck stopped and the man wasn’t hurt. A sort of modern-day stoic, he only complained that he had spilled his soda pop.

And if those stories don’t inspire you to go out and have a fantastic afternoon and enter your weekend with gladness, my name is Jerry.

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