March 08, 2009
What's up, you might ask. Well, my pneumonia is getting better by degrees, but it has spurred a (hopefully temporary) diagnosis of asthma. I'm now on steroids for the next several days and a couple of attractive inhalers for a while. The directions for the steroids are insane: take four for three da...
Church of the Big Sky
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Merujo
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March 06, 2009
There's a live moth living in a package of unopened, spinach. Should I cause a stink with the packing company? I purchased Certified Organic Triple Washed baby spinach and just as I was about to open the sealed package, discovered that there is a live moth crawling around. It can't get out, because ...
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bitteroldman
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March 02, 2009
From The Guardian: Psychedelic bouncing fish classified as new species. A funky, psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species, a scientific journal reported. The frogfish which has a swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes that extend from its...
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Christine
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We should probably preface this by letting you know that the article that sparked this post is called "Horrific beetle sex: why the most successful males have the spikiest penises." So, why is it that the most successful males have the spikiest penises? A possible answer and a terrifying p...
Nerve Scanner
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Emily Farris
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February 16, 2009
To pick a single paragraph of this New York Review of Books review of The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson as representative, would be impossible. If you have the time for a longish read — on ant societies, evolut...
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Deron Bauman
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February 10, 2009
This is a poem for this time last year. we have learned many things this year about the insect kidney which is not a true kidney some cacti breathe only at night because of the quantity of krill they eat the feces of blue whales is pink desert locusts rarely if ever drink but drinking with you has b...
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February 09, 2009
Think that ant your about to step on is not conscious? Ever wondered what the hell a fly is thinking as it buzzes and buzzes around your head? Do you, like me, think that wasps are inherently evil and must perish? Hold on - not so fast! You may not change your mind, but at least you'll know more abo...
Integral Options Cafe
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February 07, 2009
Director : Craig Mazin Release Date : 28 March 2008 (USA) Genre : Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller Cast : Drake Bell as Rick Riker / Dragonfly, Sara Paxton as Jill Johnson, Christopher McDonald as Lou Landers / Hourglass, Leslie Nielsen as Uncle Albert Adams, Kevin Hart as Trey, Marion Ross as Aunt ...
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February 05, 2009
A really rich man — Bill Gates — would like to scare the bejesus out of you who are not so rich but not as in touch with the life of the poor as he is. IN THE COMMENTS: I detect 3 themes. Theme #1: Microsoft sucks. Examples: Jeremy says, "Releasing bugs on an unsuspecting public and leaving them...
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Ann Althouse
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February 04, 2009
This has been one of the most hyperactive days for crazy news. First it was the "Klingon convenience store robberies", then the zombie street signs. Now this...At some kind of pretentious pow-wow called TED, Bill Gates spoke to the audience about the efforts his foundation is undertaking to wipe out...
The Knight Shift
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