The Apocadocs: PANIQuiz for Week of Mon Mar 1, 2010

Humoring the Horror of Climate Chaos, Resource Depletion,
Plague/Virus, Species Decline, Biology Breach, Recovery, and more.

Pre-Apocalypse News & Info Quiz (PANIQuiz)
for the week of Mon Mar 1, 2010

1. What can exposure to atrazine do to male frogs?
	Turn 'em into female frogs.
	Give 'em the gift of human speech.
	Give 'em a third eye.
	Turn 'em into toads.
	Grow hair on their chests.

2. What's the shit with all this manure from livestock?
	All that crap results in shitty "dead zones."
	It makes for shitloads of methane.
	There's way more shit than we know what to do with.
	Shit creates crappy air pollution.
	All this shit's true.

3. What effect does estrogen and other medications leaking into groundwater have on male frogs?
	They're more likely to smoke cigarettes.
	They are more sensitive.
	They're developing eggs in their reproductive tracts.
	They are highly promiscuous.
	They are more likely to weep.

4. What new invention may reduce disease-producing pathogens?
	The "pissshit" bag.
	Anti-anti-antibiotics.
	The "peepoo" bag.
	The "magic vacuum."
	Software that "talks" to pathogens.

5. What new breakthrough has Caltech achieved with photovoltaics?
	A new material that will drive down costs "significantly."
	A new material that can be stretched across the Himalayas.
	A new material that "asks permission from the sun."
	A new material that also uses "moonbeams for energy."
	A new material that can be placed on the backs of beasts.

6. What is being revealed in the melting of the Russian permafrost?
	Toy Tolstoys.
	Ancient leaf rakes.
	Wooden ships.
	Woolly mammoth body parts.
	Workcamp skeletons.

7. What is the US Chamber of Commerce attempting to do?
	Join forces w/ environmentalists.
	Cut its carbon footprint.
	Counting its gold coins.
	Overthrow the government.
	Undermine greenhouse gas regulations.

8. To meet targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the US, what do Harvard researchers propose?
	One infant per couple.
	No more CAFOs.
	No more exhalations.
	Fart vacuums in all car seats.
	$7 a gallon for gas.