Fox Latin America was trying to promote a National Geographic Christmas special on Facebook. So a staffer set up a poll for users to drum up some interest ahead of the program. The problem? The staffer who set up the poll on the Facebook page chose the worst possible question:

It was a dark, big mooned night when National Geographic’s Frontier Force were working to keep trouble at bay during Miles City, Montana’s annual “Cowboy Mardi Gras” when they came across this sprited fellow. He’s drunk but well versed in the Constitution. And as it turns out, he’s a Ron Paul fan!

America Live host Megyn Kelly has dealt with some pretty serious, harrowing situations in her day, and now she’s maintaining her reputation as a reporter who isn’t afraid to delve deep into even the most unsavory of stories by covering an incredibly taboo topic: Cannibalism!

Do the people at National Geographic have the best job, or what? Just try this at your next meeting at work: suggest taking a team out to an airstrip to see if, you know, it’s really possible to float a house into the sky using balloons, like in the Pixar film Up. When you get fired, head over to NatGeo, because they just did it.

Over the weekend, a team of scientists, engineers and “two world-class balloon pilots” launched a 16 foot by 16 foot, eighteen foot tall house using 300 eight foot weather balloons (all brightly colored, of course) from a private airfield near Los Angeles. In the process, they achieved the ubercool, making an animated film come to life, and they also set a world record for “largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted.” According to My Modern Met, the real-life Up house went way up–10,000 feet–and flew for about an hour.

A Russian website has today posted photos of what appears to be an upcoming National Geographic spread, which purportedly uncovers photos of British authorities constructing Stonehenge in….1898. Gasp! The photo spread, which online at least appears totally believable, alas (again) is a fake. Take a look.

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The 40th anniversary of the moon landing yesterday saw slews of retrospective coverage. But in an effort to “spice things up,” a good number of these stories introduced drama and conflict in the form of moon landing conspiracy theorists, or “truthers,” who believe the whole thing was faked. Let’s take a look.

Gawker stepped over the line with their Bloodcopy campaign, where they were not only guilty of blurring the line between advertisements and editorial but of nearly erasing it altogether. And yet, the entire controversy made Bloodcopy one of the most successful ad campaigns Gawker ever ran.