A wonderful thing to come home to.

Oh man! Niko Tinbergen was Richard Dawkins' doctoral adviser? How many hardcore points do you get if your doctoral adviser was as influential in his field as the guy who came up with the four questions that structure ethology ( Read more... )

BSG links:
Pharyngula asks his readers to convince him to watch BSG.
The intro to the A-Team. Notice anything...interesting? (Note of interest, Dirk Benedict, the guy in the clip in question, played Starbuck in the original BSG. So there's context to it.)
It's a music video love letter to the new series. I got this from the SCIFI CHANNEL ( Read more... )

the science/geeky links:
evo bio and others are mat/sci majors uneligible for federal grants
more info on the story
holodeck janitor's weblog
ethical stem cell lines

Scary/depressing links:
guess how many teenage girls are getting boob jobs?
Rapist pretends to help victim

feminist/ranty links:
this one's for Josh: things that are in incredibly ( Read more... )

I need a timeline

I also like the clade name "Enantiornithians"

I admit, these are all from Pharyngula. But they're still cool.

A really intelligently designed human would include... Audience Member: Oh. Will future models have flight capabilities?
In the idyllic time of the dinosaurs, Brenda swam in the lake with the Brontosaurids. And the Adamses had an Ankylosaurus for a pet. (Sorry about the alliteration ( Read more... )