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Gigantic Ancient Fish Carcass Found by 4 Canoeists Near Boston [Photos] | BostInno.

Four women were canoeing on the North River in Quincy, just 20 miles south of Boston, when they paddled across a dead fish. But this wasn’t any old trout. The carcass they came across was that of a six-foot long, 75 pound female ancient Atlantic sturgeon, according to the New England Aquarium.

Rather than scream and paddle in the other direction, the four women did what any other ladies would do, of course: They pulled the sturgeon into their boat, and contacted local wildlife authorities. The dead sturgeon was then brought to the New England Aquarium, where the head veterinarian, performed a necropsy on the fish. The carcass will be donated to the Harvard’s Museum of Natural History.

Time-lapse documentary of the delivery and assembly of the Scituate wind turbine.

Wow, I never thought I’d see this day. The Borders bookstore on Washington Street here in Boston is closing, or has possibly already closed.

While I buy 90% of my books though Amazon, and have for over 13 years, there’s still something special about wandering around a real-world bookstore, browsing book covers to find something that you would not have found via a website.  In the past, I would spend hours in Waterstone’s (the greatest bookstore ever) off Newbury Street, but it closed years ago.  I have recently been relying upon Borders for my browsing.

To quote the Wikipedia page for Newbury Street:

Once famous for a wealth of bookstores, Boston, like its neighbor Cambridge, has suffered a steady decline in the number and quality of independent booksellers. The beloved 150,000-volume Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop on Newbury Street, one of the last holdouts, closed in 2002. (It did, however, outlast the comparably short-lived Waterstone’s, the British chain whose giant, well-regarded store just off Newbury Street was a source of pressure on the independents. When Waterstone’s closed, a Boston Globe staffer opined that “the Athens of America feels a bit more like Elmira.”) Today, the youthful Trident Booksellers and Café on Newbury Street is amongst a small band of independent bookstores still remaining in Boston.

Sad.

Borders Books at Downtown Crossing is closing | Universal Hub.

The Euthanasia Coaster would kill its passengers through prolonged cerebral hypoxia, or insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain. The ride’s seven inversions would inflict 10 g on its passengers for 60 seconds – causing g-force related symptoms starting with gray out through tunnel vision to black out and eventually g-LOC, g-force induced loss of consciousness. Depending on the tolerance of an individual passenger to g-forces, the first or second inversion would cause cerebral anoxia, rendering the passengers brain dead. Subsequent inversions would serve as insurance against unintentional survival of passengers.

via Euthanasia Coaster – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

100 trends to watch in 2011, c/o J. Walter Thompson.