Giant Cannibal Squid: The Invasion Has Begun!

Well not really. But according to this some species of squid engage in cannibalism: Now Bruce Deagle of the University of Tasmania, Australia, and his team have analysed the gut contents of a male giant squid caught by fishermen off the west coast of Tasmania in 1999. Among the slurry of macerated prey, they found [...]

Mainstream Media Sucks Used Kitty Litter: Part Two

Here we go again. According to Eschaton The New Media Rules: It looks like Republicans have learned a new trick in the media. If you give exclusive stories to journalists with the condition that no Democrats are to be allowed to comment on the story, journalists think that’s a perfectly acceptable thing to do. Not [...]

Humor

the Cutting Edge (52% dark, 43% spontaneous, 33% vulgar) your humor style:CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | DARK Your humor’s mostly innocent and off-the-cuff, but somehow there’s something slightly menacing about you. Part of your humor is making people a little uncomfortable, even if the things you say aren’t in and of themselves confrontational. You probably have [...]

Dinosaur Embryos

Dinosaur Embryos  The above is a dinosaur embryo belonging to a species called Massospondylus carinatus which is believed to be an ancestor of the giant sauropods. It (the embryo) was discovered in 1978 and just recently exposed by scientists. Apparently, according to this article enough were discovered that they could work out growth rates and [...]

Forgive Me for I Have Sinned…

No, I have not gone and got myself all religified. I’m still the same cynical smartass who thinks we are descended from monkeys! You see, I have realized I have done wrong – that is I have spelled a bloggers name wrong. I am refering, of course, to evolgen. I had been spelling it Evolgen, [...]

Wells and Cancer: More Evidence He’s Wrong

I have written several posts on this before. They can be found here and here.From Well’s paper on TOPS: TOPS then explicitly rejects several implications of Darwinian evolution.These include: (1a) The implication that living things are best understood fromthe bottom up, in terms of their molecular constituents. (1b) The implicationsthat DNA mutations are the raw [...]

Mainstream Media Sucks Used Kitty Litter

This is absolutely despicable. Yet, the mainstream media keeps wondering why people are abandoning them in droves. It concerns a missing pregnant woman from Philadelphia. From MSNBC CRAMER: I think we got to focus on this ratings issue for a second, because I don’t think people—we all—we all understand this because we’re in the business. [...]

New Species of Fly

Hybrid Fly  According to National Geographic News the above is a relatively new species of fly that formed as a hybrid of two existing species: The Lonicera fly evolved as a hybrid of two existing U.S. species, the blueberry maggot and the snowberry maggot, according to the study. The newfound species is named after the [...]

What Democrats Need to Do

Athenae at First Draft has a perceptive post about Democrats and the need to not allow others to define us: But what we have do, Will my love, is not “come to terms” with what our opposition says we are and promise, really promise, the American people we’ll change. What we need, Will, is not [...]

Tuesday Monster Movie Blogging

Although it sounds pretty cheesy (the science aspects suck), this is actually a first rate movie. Seems to be a low budget film and I don’t recognize any of the stars. It was released in 1953 during the era of the “invaders from outerspace” but veers off in a different direction from most (another exception [...]

Bacterial Adaptations to Cold Environments

This article from Science Daily is pretty interesting. A team of researchers from The Institute for Genomic Research have sequenced the genome of Colwellia psychrerythraea – a species of cold adapted bacteria that lives in temperatures below 5 degrees celcius (brrr). “…these analyses offer a picture of evolution in action, as C. psychrerythraea uses subtle [...]

My Birthday

“It’s my birthday and I’ll blog if I want to…”I took the day off because it’s my birthday today. I plan on blogging a little , maybe watching a couple of monster movies and of course, my mom made me a german sweet chocolate cake (from scratch – not a mix) so I plan on [...]

Ediacara Fauna

The above is a picture of a type of ediacaran fossil called a vendobiont. From Geotimes: Radiometrically dated between 551 and 538 million years old, the newly discovered vendobionts, preserved in a limestone matrix, have internal structures replaced by calcite spars, says Bing Shen, a graduate student at Virginia Tech and co-author of the paper, [...]

The Environmental Impact of Consumption

The Yale Journal of Industrial Ecology has an entire issue devoted to the impact of consumption on the environment. All the articles are free and dowloadable in pdf format. Check them out.

400 Million Year Old Microfossils

Although I don’t know much about botany, I find this fascinating. The above is a picture of (as near as I can tell) the fruit or seed of a type of green algae called charophytes. They are 400 million year old microfossils that scientists have recently found a new and important way to study. Researchers [...]