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The evolution of Bigfoot ....
.... happened because Darwin Killed Off The Werewolf.
Friday night at Convergence there was an interesting and very funny panel about Bigfoot stories. -
To Serve Man
How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans,
A fossil discovery bears marks of butchering similar to those made when cutting up a deer
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Our cousins, the chimpanzees
Good news: They are like us - They can plan for the future.
Bad news: They are like us - They demonstrate this by stockpiling and fabricating weapons.
Planning of the Apes: Zoo Chimp Plots Rock Attacks on Visitors
Over the years, Santino's operation has become increasingly sophisticated, Osvath says, progressing from simple gathering to ( Read more... ) -
Pseudo-science, censorship, and incompetence
Expelled!. Also see the follow-up.
Via Bad Astronomy.
As my mother used to nag us: Don't do a half-way job! -
Mixed Nuts
Two recent incidents at Midwestern universities, actually quite similar IMHO:
From If you reject a teaching job applicant because he believes a crazy conspiracy theory...:[....] the University of Wisconsin has not rehired 9/11 conspiracy believer Kevin Barrett to teach a course on the history of Islam. [...] if we know a person believes something ( Read more... ) -
The Raw Food Movement will not like this....
....But Tony Bourdain will be pleased.
Evolving Bigger Brains through Cooking: A Q&A with Richard Wrangham, Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and this Scientific American article.
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Politicians and Science
6000 years of Republican debates. Is there anybody around who can channel H.L. Mencken???