We’re still dealing with making sure all’s cool with the kid, so just a quick check-in regarding the 30th anniversary of the Mariel Boatlift. The clip above comes from a local station in northern New Jersey, home to the largest Cuban-American community outside South Florida. Make it to the back half and you’ll see that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Florida'
Union City Blues
April 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags:Cuba·economics·Florida·immigration·Mariel Boatlift·Miami·New Jersey
Twilight of the Panthers
November 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
It’s been a rough year for Florida’s official animal, as 15 percent of the state’s remaining wild panthers have perished (largely due to being hit by cars). Now comes particularly grisly news out of Yeehaw Junction: An anonymous caller reported seeing a dead Florida panther by the side of the Florida Turnpike near Yeehaw Junction. [...]
Tags:animals·black-footed ferrets·Florida·panthers·wildlife management
The Venom Trade, Cont’d
September 18th, 2009 · No Comments
In yesterday’s post on Pakistan’s troubled system of snake-venom collection, we opined that technology seemed to have changed the field little. But if we’d read the latest issue of the journal Toxicon, we wouldn’t have been so quick to make such blanket claims. Because as it turns out, a Florida cottonmouth researchers are blazing trails: [...]
Tags:animals·antivenin·Captain Eo·Florida·Michael Jackson·reptiles·snakes
The Murder Project: Crocodile Tears
August 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments
We have to duck out for a few hours, to work on a big Wired piece that’s simmering on our front burner. Back as soon as possible; in the interim, please enjoy the above “gotcha!” clip of Dalia Dippolito, who was recently busted for trying to get her husband offed. Like so many murder-for-hire amateurs, [...]
Tags:crime·Dalia Dippolito·Florida·police·The Murder Project
A Bad Time to Get Bitten
August 7th, 2009 · No Comments
We’ve long assumed that antivenins were stocked in every hospital pharmacy, so that snakebite victims need only worry about getting medical attention in time. But, alas, that’s really not the case at all—even mainstream antivenins such as CroFab must often be shipped in to address specific cases, and rarer remedies are getting increasingly hard to [...]
Tags:animal attacks·antivenin·Canada·Florida·medicine·Ontario·snakes
Cold Ironing at Port Everglades
June 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
A major East Coast port finally wakes up to the environmental benefits of cold ironing. Granted, running an idle ship off shore-side electricity is pretty energy intensive. But it pails in comparison to letting the ship’s diesel engines keep on humming: Broward County Commissioner Kristin D. Jacobs said that by shutting down the engines and [...]
Tags:energy·environment·Florida·maritime
