Just how closely related are you to your cat?

Now you can have a shirt that lets everyone know!

Do you remember this post? In it, a Mt. Holyoke professor endorsed a really crappy biology book. I held out hope that he hadn't actually hadn't endorsed it and he hadn't!In response to an inquiry, he stated ( Read more... )

And something else to keep head58 out of the water.

Scientists are now discovering that the top hundredth-inch of the ocean is somewhat like a sheet of jelly. And this odd habitat, thinner than a human hair, is home to an unusual menagerie of microbes.This layer helps with the transfer of gasses into the oceans. As once scientists says "It’s the ocean ( Read more... )

Fortunately, animated_Max reminded me.

In under 1/2 an hour it'll be

12:34:56 7/8/9

The 90th anniversary of the first transatlantic zeppelin flight was July 2nd.

Hope for lynxes

For inochinoakari and qahawthorne (and others who like that sort of thing).

As seen from space

Timecube guy has competition!

Here are some neat articles on how fingers develop including how 3 digit limbs and 5 digit limbs develop from the same start and a dinosaur transitional fossil that illustrates the development.

Enjoy!

A few years ago I heard on the radio that between Memorial Day and Labor day weekends, Americans eat something like 6 billion hot dogs. Yes, 6,000,000,000. This number seemed large to me, so I divided it by an approximate American population and determined how many hot dogs that was per man, woman and child. I increased the estimate to account for ( Read more... )