WARNING: VERY NSFW!

Behind the cut below, there is a picture. You will probably react very strongly to this picture, no matter your politics, ethics, or metaphysical beliefs. It appears to be a picture of a foot protruding from a bloody mess - not just any foot, but a human foot, that of an infant. As it turns out, this photo was actually ( Read more... )

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PZ Myers and Richard Carrier are BOTH going to be speaking next week in Springfield.

Springfield, Missouri, that is.

DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!

Ain't no train, bus is too 'spensive, don't know how many other people would be interested in carpooling nearly 400 miles for this. But... umm... damn. Look, giving up, this is just frustrating as hell. So ( Read more... )

OK, everybody: first, tell me how cool I am, then next, tell me how much I suck! All in the name of science, of course.

It'll be fun, I promise!

A hero of news and a hero of science. Seriously, Ken Miller is my favorite Catholic in the world - because he knows his fucking science.

So, without further ado:

Who knew that a search for a ThreatDown on bears would turn up some proper science?

This is what a holy book should look like. Had something like this existed, I would be a member of that religion. In five minutes, some guy provides a Genesis-style count of how we now know the Universe to have come about, which he wrote in about half an hour. Imagine an entire book of incomprehensible (at the time) scientific truths and ( Read more... )

...size does matter, and not in the ways you'd think.

So what if it's from 2006? The headline just caught my eye. It's pretty cool stuff, though, and well-written.

Found via Joe. For the record, I do still believe that arguing over the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics: it doesn't matter who wins, you're still retarded. However, I'm chaotic/short-bus aligned, so it's not a problem for me; and anyway, it's still fun to pwn noobs, for much the same reason that it is fun to wrestle with ( Read more... )

Two really cool science stories, both found via Pharyngula:

1. A nautilus can learn! Experiments performed on a nautilus strapped to a pipe show that it can learn to associate a light (conditioned stimulus) with a squirt of fish juice (unconditioned stimulus). Teeny-tiny brains, but they can still make associations like that. Sweet!

2. ( Read more... )

Today I want to talk about some science. Some good and proper science. I wanted to say a lot about evolution and the popular misconceptions that creatards exploit to gain ground in the ongoing circus. Not controversy. Not conspiracy. This is a fucking circus. Anyway, there's way too much to be said in a single post, so I thought I'd break ( Read more... )