Louis Pasteur was trying this with chicken cholera. With one batch of chickens he used an old culture. The experiment failed: none of the chickens got sick. He tried again with a fresh, strong culture. The experiment failed again; still those chickens didn’t get sick. Even though the same fresh culture was sure-enough sickening other chickens who ( Read more... )

Dan Savage has called out a nifty little article on the reproductive advantages of a fluid sexuality, while mentioning the group selection advantage of having homos in the family.

Fun facts for those of us defending gay rights against the stupids.