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That’s not a Tree of Life–THIS is a tree of life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, on Cosmos, brings up the “Tree of Life” metaphor. I like mine better. Artist: Mike McRae
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Down in the depths Of the salty Atlantic A seaglider measured the signs of the sea– Monotonous work, And it isn’t romantic, At least, I’d be bored if the glider were me Up to the surface And down to...
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Wood Lake Nature Center: A Song of Slush and Mud
Today the Hubby and I ventured out to enjoy the springish weather at Wood Lake Nature Center. The temperature was in the mid-40s and we were able to get away with light jackets. In the past Wood Lake...
View Article“A Greater Fool Than The Atheist”
There’s fools and then, there’s greater fools Like those who went to fancy schools For silly stuff like Kepler’s rules And other science stuff The planetary hows and whys Show God at work—that’s no...
View ArticleI’ll See Your Burrito-Eating Hamster, And Raise You A Dancing Snipe
PZ wants orders us all to cheer up. So, to that end…
View ArticleUnexpected Good News On The Cuttlefish Front
I have written before with bad news from Point Lowly, Spencer Gulf, in South Australia. That was from 2011; in 2012 the news was even worse, and last year things looked grim indeed. Unexpectedly, this...
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Bugs in the City
NOTE: The Smithsonian is crowdsourcing! Read all the way (or skip) to the bottom to learn how to become an online volunteer for the Smithsonian Museum’s bumblebee records project! One thing that is...
View Article“It’s Nature’s Law–You Know, Like On Noah’s Ark”
Since the dawn of the world Humanities men mated with women, and women with men… it’s the way of nature. No mention of gay couples surviving the floods on Noah’s Ark, they were left to swim. That’s...
View ArticleBatty Bats!
So the cuttledog and I were walking, just a bit ago, and there were bats! There used to be bats aplenty, every evening walk we took, but then the white-nose fungus hit. The bats disappeared. I’ve seen...
View ArticleThe Plural Of Walrus
For Scicurious (still and always, the best ‘nym ever for a science writer) The walruses were gathered, Tens of K of walri strong With their floes unfroze, the walrae Joined a huge walrorum throng...
View ArticleBad Creationism: The Argument From X-Men
There’s a movie (science fiction) And it holds a contradiction To the theory (that’s a “hunch”) of evolution See, the mutants (they’re the heroes) Should, by rights, be less-than-zeroes Since mutation...
View ArticleI Envy This Guy His Next Few Years…
My aggregator threw yet another ignorant anti-atheist screed at me recently; all the same tired arguments that have been addressed many times before: Some atheists will not even know they have to use a...
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Late Roses
It’s been a rather lovely fall, up until the last couple of weeks, during which nature has decided to make up for not raining enough during early and mid October and has rained nearly every day. Some...
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A Collection of Pretty Photos from Discovery Park For Ye
I’ve been so busy you would not believe. I wrote you a book! I am typing and revising it right now! You will have an excerpt soon! And I am fisking an MRA rant from the 19th century, and trying to get...
View Article“If Evolution Is True, Where Are The Unfit Animals?”
Where are the mutants? The losers? The freaks? Intermediate forms, half-completed? “Selected against”, as biology speaks, The ones whom the “fit” ones defeated? There ought to be millions, just wasting...
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Happy International Tiger Day! We’re Celebrating With Pretty Tigers and...
It’s International Tiger Day! The fifth annual, in fact – July 29th was designated as a day to bring attention to tiger conservation by the St. Petersburg Tiger Summit back in 2010. Tigers are in...
View Article“The Squid’s Embrace…”
Down in the depths Of the salty Atlantic A seaglider measured the signs of the sea– Monotonous work, And it isn’t romantic, At least, I’d be bored if the glider were me Up to the surface And down to...
View Article“A Greater Fool Than The Atheist”
There’s fools and then, there’s greater fools Like those who went to fancy schools For silly stuff like Kepler’s rules And other science stuff The planetary hows and whys Show God at work—that’s no...
View ArticleI’ll See Your Burrito-Eating Hamster, And Raise You A Dancing Snipe
PZ wants orders us all to cheer up. So, to that end…
View ArticleUnexpected Good News On The Cuttlefish Front
I have written before with bad news from Point Lowly, Spencer Gulf, in South Australia. That was from 2011; in 2012 the news was even worse, and last year things looked grim indeed. Unexpectedly, this...
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