Boing Boing » depressing things http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 10:02:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The oldest thing in the world http://boingboing.net/2012/02/10/the-oldest-thing-in-the-world.html http://boingboing.net/2012/02/10/the-oldest-thing-in-the-world.html#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:33:26 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=143349

The oldest living thing on Earth is a massive "meadow" of sea grass growing in the Mediterranean between Spain and Cyprus. It's somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 years old and reproduces by cloning itself. Also, it's being killed by climate change.

Via Beth Buczynski

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/02/10/the-oldest-thing-in-the-world.html/feed 37 Sad story about a chimp in space http://boingboing.net/2011/12/01/sad-story-about-a-chimp-in-spa.html http://boingboing.net/2011/12/01/sad-story-about-a-chimp-in-spa.html#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:32:09 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=132511 is extremely depressing. In fact, it's significantly more depressing than the life story of Yuri Gagarin, the first primate to orbit Earth. Which is saying something. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/12/01/sad-story-about-a-chimp-in-spa.html/feed 8 Today in lost diversity http://boingboing.net/2011/10/25/today-in-lost-diversity.html http://boingboing.net/2011/10/25/today-in-lost-diversity.html#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:50:42 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=125932 another subspecies of the Javan rhinoceros has gone extinct. There's only one subspecies left, and it's down to 50 individuals. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/10/25/today-in-lost-diversity.html/feed 6