It’s almost strange to think there was a time that evolution wasn’t widely accepted. As ya know, other stuff. (But only in that looking-back-at-Steve-Jobs-present-WiFi-for-the-first-time-in-1999 sort of way.) People didn’t know any better. While religious zealots were the ones who most saw it as a steaming batch of blasphemy in Darwin’s day, the scientific community also wasn’t that open to it initially. Then, as he carried on with his work, it.. Read More
Smart spiders can take my S.A.T. (Smoosh All’a Them)
I had the most terrifying “my god, you’re right!” truth bomb dropped onto me recently. It was this lil nugget o’ knowledge: (I kept this image small. For obvious reasons.) This inoperable tumor on the fear lobe of my brain that normally tells me, “Just squash it! Hit it with a book!” has been the bane of every non-sleep since my reading of it. What do I do? Murder this.. Read More
Triplet pandas prove anti-Darwin award exists
So some pandas were born. Three, actually – a whole triplet litter of Chinese pandas – born behind bars. Right when we think their kind’s dying, they beat the odds. ’cause the truth is, they pretty much are all dying. Or trying to. I don’t mean to be a downer. The only thing cooler than pandas would be if one of them could actually talk like Jack Black. Or eat.. Read More
Dulcet Darwinian Duels
Warning – this may be boring if you slept through your evolution lecture – but I rather enjoyed this post: But, you know me. Or maybe you don’t – so I’ll remind you that I have to ruin everything remotely enjoyable via over-thinking, endless “what ifs”, and internal interrogations. Thus, upon reading it, I immediately found the potential flaws in the experiment, and asked myself: But what if the thumb.. Read More