A belated webbertubes media link, full of cute and awesome:

English schoolchildren's bee study gets published by the Royal Society

Good job, guys (n__n)b Lovin' the diagrams

Colin Tudge (who incidentally has got to have the most adorable name of just about any author I've ever read) is utterly fascinated by trees. He knows tons about them, but more importantly he is effective at communicating not just the scope of his knowledge but the vast expanse of things he and other very knowledgeable people have absolutely no ( Read more... )

It's Doodlethings Friday again. Today there was absolutely no point to me being at work, but I don't have enough paid-leave left to just take the day off. Me being me and the people in close proximity to me being mildly irritating, I was in a tetchy mood. aquaenumen and I decided that doodling nekkid people would cheer me up, and by gum it did.

( cut for cartoonish noodity, because maybe some of y'all are reading this at a workplace that objects to naked drawrings. Which is kinda lame, but whaddya gonna do )

This is a pretty nifty thinkspace for people who like thinky-things and stories built up around them. Bad science is not just a joykill in otherwise entertaining cinema or literature; its perpetuation in the public mind holds back social progress ( Read more... )

This is mostly Aaron Diaz's fault. Tho, to be fair, I had already encountered passing mentions of the technological singularity or variances on the theme in several spheres of interest by the time I got around to his brainchildrens. And I guess he didn't invent the intertubes, so really in the grand scheme of things he is but my butterfly in ( Read more... )

If I were an even marginally less attentive reader, I would say Steve Jones' genetic opera is only somewhat disingenuous. As it stands, I'm now convinced he must have had several spats with faculty from the department that is soon to be my home base. And I do hope he'll be teaching in the fall, because I will gladly shove a bio major in front of ( Read more... )

So there is this thing here. My initial reaction was "WHOAH YES PLEASE it's about time already!" And Bateson's daughter is heading the project, which is definitely a ton of points in its favor. Also I cannot help but note the tasty site design, with its playful whorls and Halloween color scheme :3 Shame that they chose to host with GoDaddy, though ( Read more... )

...and it is AFUCKINGDORABLE.

And I always thought Apple would be the ones responsible for humanity's destruction by a self-aware conglomerate of diverse, intercommunicative machinery. Oh how wrong I was.

Robot penguins, you guys. ROBOT. PENGUINS. And it just gets better from there!! **gibberflail**