I done seen whales! But you don't get to see them unless you click below the fold. The pictures are so awesome, so breathtaking, that I fear you will be awed and breath-taked to the point that you'll pass out and fall onto a smaller, less massive bystander — possibly a child or a dog. Meanwhile, content yourself with this picture of an extremely rare bird known as a "sea gull." (Click to embiggen.) … [Read more...]
Visits from Dead People — Part 1
July 24, 2012 By 11 Comments
When I was younger, I used to play with myself. No, not like that. Okay, well, yes like that, but that’s not what I meant. (Too much information, huh? The hell with it, I’m leaving it in. We’re all sexy beasts here.) What I mean is that I used to play with different parts of my body, to see what I could learn from them, to see what they would do. … [Read more...]
Monster Under the Bed Scientifically Identified!
July 22, 2012 By 7 Comments
Given the common name of the thing, I would swear the Neoclinus blanchardi is a spoof. (Click the pic to embiggen.) Yet Wikipedia describes it thus: … [Read more...]
Maverick Blogger Pioneers World’s First Blog Post Reboot!
July 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
Seeing the new Batman movie last night, I had this exciting epiphany about blogging. Blogging is enormously demanding of time and energy. You have to turn out a completely new post at least every few days. For some bloggers, it's a new post several times EACH DAY. But sitting in the theater and looking around at the happy faces, movie-goers content to see yet another Batman movie and plop down $9.50 for the privilege, I thought about reboots. … [Read more...]
Death From Above! Sloppy Bats!
July 15, 2012 By 18 Comments
If you've read my Falling Leaves post on Earth Day, you know I have a somewhat grim view of what's coming. Based on nothing more complex than the fact that we have no way to control human population growth, and will probably never have a conscious, deliberate way, we are screwing ourselves out of a future. Control will come from outside, via natural forces, and it will be ugly. On that light-hearted subject, here's an interesting article from the New York Times: The Ecology of Disease. … [Read more...]
God Weighs In on ‘God Particle’ Discovery
July 4, 2012 By 6 Comments
“I wish people would stop bringing Me into it.” So complained God, the supernatural superbeing and all-powerful deity of the Bible, in an exclusive interview today with FreethoughtBlogs’ Blue Collar Atheist. We sat in a small café in Schenectady, New York. On the day after Rolf Heuer, director of European physics research center CERN, announced the likely discovery of the Higgs Boson, God appeared in a blinding flash at roughly 9:17 a.m. (all the clocks stopped, as did most of the … [Read more...]
O Texas, My Texas! Where Did You Go Wrong?
July 1, 2012 By 16 Comments
This is from a document entitled "2012 REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS / Report of Platform Committee and Rules Committee." Assuming I'm doing this right, you can download a PDF of the thing here: 2012-Platform-Final Believe THIS shit: … [Read more...]
In Which I Brag on My Friend … Again
May 24, 2012 By 7 Comments
If you're in the biological sciences and expect at some point to get published, here's someone you should know: Carl Buell. He's done heaps of illustrations for science author Carl Zimmer as well as cover and interior illos for countless other books and magazines. He has pieces in museums all over the world, and has designed blog headers for PZ Myers, Chris Clarke and a number of others. (And I've probably written about him before, but he's just one of those cool people you can't say enough … [Read more...]
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