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While perhaps not quite as insane as TimeCube, the Million Dollar Horse website has developed its own special brand of crazy. (or, maybe, it’s just a clever Poe…)
I wonder though, what’s their deal with Jews? Do crazy conspiracy nuts tend toward antisemitism as a default? If so, what does that mean for Jewish conspiracy nuts?
The Misconception: Makeup is used by women to reduce the appearance of blemishes and aging.
The Truth: Makeup enhances the contrast of the human face, allowing for faster recognition of gender.
Read more at You Are Not So Smart, one of my new favorite blogs.
The NCSE has put up a number of evolution book excerpts on their website:
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin Of Species: A Graphic Adaptation
by Michael Keller
The Tangled Bank
by Carl Zimmer
Evolution, Second Edition
By Douglas J. Futuyma
Evidence of Evolution
by Susan Middleton and Mary Ellen Hannibal
Evolution: The story of life
by Douglas Palmer
Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be
by Daniel Loxton
Rapture Ready!
by Daniel Radosh
Evolution vs. Creationism, 2nd edition
by Eugenie C. Scott
Are killer whales splitting into two species? It looks like it:
Scientists have revealed that there is not one but two types of killer whale living in UK waters. Each differs in its appearance and diet, with males of one type being almost two metres longer than the other.
The killer whales could be at an early stage of becoming two separate species, the researchers say. The international group of scientists has published its results in the journal Molecular Ecology.
“It’s exciting to think about two very different types of killer whale in the waters around Britain,” says Dr Andy Foote from the University of Aberdeen, UK, who undertook the study.
Lauren Leto (creator and co-founder of the popular Texts From Last Night) wrote a hilarious post on stereotyping people by their favorite author. Here are some of my favorites:
J.D. Salinger
Kids who don’t fit in (duh).
Stephenie Meyer
People who type like this: OMG. Mah fAvvv <3 <3.
Lauren Weisberger
Girls who can’t read. Or think.
Christopher Hitchens
People I would love to hang out with.
Leo Tolstoy
Guys I want to date.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Guys I want to sleep with. (The difference between the two Russian authors lies in the fact that I think the Underground Man is sexier than Pierre Buzukhov).
Ayn Rand
Workaholics seeking validation.
Jane Austen (or Bronte Sisters)
Girls who made out with other girls in college when they were going through a “phase”.
Charles Dickens
Ninth graders who think they’re going to be authors someday but end up in marketing.
William Shakespeare
People who like bondage.
Mark Twain
Liars.
Thomas Aquinas
Premature ejaculators.
H.P. Lovecraft
People who can quote the Comic Book Guy from Simpsons.
C.S. Lewis
Youth group leaders who picked their nose in the 4th grade.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Men who can’t lie but will instead be silent if they know you don’t want to hear the truth.
Richard Dawkins
People who have their significant other grab them under the table in order to shut them up whenever someone else at a dinner says something absolutely ridiculous and wrong.
She missed an obvious one, though — people who say their favorite author is God…
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