And some stuff you may not know and won't believe about polar bears and our Airbus refuelling fleet.
Navy divers and marine archaeologists are about to attempt a daring feat of polar exploration.
Despite the fact that various scientists came out saying it was unclear whether this new foraging strategy would help polar bears survive, what the media heard was essentially: "Polar bears are adapting, hooray!" Headlines perpetuated this perception.
The news that polar bears were consuming more land-based foods, such as bird eggs, geese and caribou – the results of a study from the American Museum of Natural History in New York last year – was exactly the sort of optimism people had been looking for in the polar bear's sad story.
The study also points out that polar bears will be competing for any land-based foods with existing populations of grizzly bears.
"I can see why people would get excited about the news that polar bears are eating land-based foods," Rode said.
In addition to the fact that only a small percentage of polar bears — fewer than 30 individual polar bears out of populations that typically number 900 to 1200 — are actually consuming land-based foods, Rode and her colleagues found that in the regions where terrestrial feeding by polar bears has been documented, polar bears' health and rate of survival have declined.
At least there's nothing quite so bizarre as a polar bear in Mad Dogs, although the man in the Tony Blair mask was pretty surreal.
Indeed, during the election campaign in 2013, the words of Abbott and his fellow frontbenchers were the polar opposite for most issues.
Charles was the absolute polar opposite of your cardboard cutout, point-scoring politician.
There emerged towards the end of the 19th century a mini-industry based around polar exploration, and no voyage was complete without its heroes' bestselling diaries and memoirs.
