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'Giving ugly animals their day in the sun. We avoid the simply tragic, diseased, or maimed. Rather, these creatures are only as hideous as nature – or their owners – intended.'
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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.’
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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.
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via Daring Fireball. This is absolutely amazing, though it requires a slight degree of geekishness to appreciate. I cannot believe how well it works.
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Lots of tree-y goodness at Festival of the Trees. Check out the sexy red maples and the original story of Arbor Day.
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via kottke: ‘Synchronization of 5 coupled metronomes in Lancaster University’
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‘biobigotry: the persistent and often irrational desire to be surrounded only by those species of which one approves, and to exclude any animals, plants and other life forms that one finds offensive.’ I have a real bee in my bonnet on this subject.
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A gratifyingly caustic conservative take on the Expelled movie: ‘The old Biblical creationists were, in my opinion, wrong-headed, but they were mostly honest people. The “intelligent design” crowd lean more in the other direction.’
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‘Bat calls, it turns out, can reach up to a deafening 140 dB – that’s 20 dB louder than a rock concert and 15 dB above the human pain threshold.’