"For years, the American lava lamp industry has outsourced its labor to the islands of Indonesia, where lava is cheap, plentiful, and harvested by thousands of natives" who work under "horrifying conditions."

Or so says a Harvard Lampoon parody of National Geographic published on April Fools' Day 2008.

Lampoon editor Hayes Davenport said, "We consider National Geographic our closest competitor. We share a similar demographic of biologists and animals, so they were a natural target."_

(Related photos: "'Giant Skeletons' Fuel Web Hoax" [December 14, 2007].)

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