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Via Pharyngula: Jack Chick explains evolution. Which is weirdly fascinating.
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‘It is hard to believe they are real matches and not little edible sugar-candies. Of course that isn’t likely as it wouldn’t go over well with parents, but, on the other hand, put them with some candy cigarettes and you have a Lil’ Smoker Starter Kit.’
Tag: links
Links
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‘A laboratory study has found that food pathogens survive being eaten by protozoa living on spinach and lettuce. The temporary asylum might help bacteria stick onto leafy greens or resist efforts to kill them before packaging.’
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‘A spectacularly preserved new Chinese fossil called Eoconfuciusornis is a missing link between Archaeopteryx and more advanced birds that have been discovered in China.’ That is one amazingly well-preversed fossil.
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Testing sewage to see what drugs people have been taking.
Links of the year 2007
After a quick and dirty winnowing-out, here are what might be the best of the links which I posted last year.
Arctic artefacts — Attack of the GIANT NEGROES!!
Bait-Fishing Crows — Beautiful Specimens — bird-eating bats — Building Stonehenge
C19th London snail-gatherers — chilled bees & yellow rain — Chinese building blocks — College Republicans — Cormac McCarthy & the semi-colon — Croatian bees sniff out landmines
Faster speciation in the tropics? — Fela Kuti documentary — Flags By Colours — Flight Exposure — Fossil Rivers
hamster-powered paper shredder — hobo nickels — Hothead: 1902 — how to camouflage a whole factory — human yellowhammer
Iggy Pop’s concert rider — Intensified continuity revisited
Jamaican Label Art — Japanese Love Hotels — Jen Stark paper sculptures
La Tonnara and the Chamber of Death — Large ejaculate from a spiny genital organ — look-a-like portraits
on the Heritability and Malleability of IQ
Pac-Man the text adventure — Parasite manipulates host’s sense of smell — Photosynth demo — pigeons aligner — Plains Indian Ledger Art — plaster casts of termite mounds — Polk Miller — Polynesian Stick Charts
Rafael Benitez The Magician — RIP Joe Engressia, the original Phone Phreak — Roxanne Shante: Who need a royalty check?
Simon Norfolk photographs — Some So-Called Out of Place Artifacts — spiny anteater reveals bizarre penis — stripper polaroids — Super Mario levels that play themselves
Taliban portrait photos — Thamesmead, Riverside School, 76-78 — The Bhagavata Purana — The Broken Column House — The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson — The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web — The flipping ship — The Visual Erotics of Mini-Marriages — thread in spiderwebs — Toutes les autos de Tintin — Typography and HMS Victory
Enjoy.