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Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called Transitions:The Evolution of Life His previous blog can be found here.
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"Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul..."
Mark Twain
"Ideology is a poor substitute for rational thought..."
Afarensis
"It isn't faith that makes good science...it's curiosity"
Prof. Jacob Barnhardt, The Day the Earth Stood Still
"This man wishes to be accorded the same privilege as a sponge. He wishes to think!"
Clarence Darrow, Inherit the Wind
"...I become fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason..."
Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still
"I want you to grab life by its little bunny ears and get in its face..."
The Simpsons
"This is between me and the vegetable..."
Seymour Krelborn, The Little Shop of Horrors
"There are bad laws and cruel laws and the people who enforce them are both bad and cruel..."
Thea, Isle of the Dead
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Jean- Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation
"But the limit of tolerance for these human foibles is obtained when the proponent of a questionable scientific doctrine endeavors to maintain it against all possible odds by misrepresentation, misinformation and suppression of contradictory data, and by insinuating unfairness in opponents of his views."
Franz Weidenreich, Morphology of Solo Man
"Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconcious, impersonal material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible. He is not the creature of uncontrollable and undeterminable forces, but his own master. He can and must decide and manage his own destiny."
George Gaylord Simpson, Life of the Past
Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the phd,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the phd,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
Unknown
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Frederich Nietzsche
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The Declaration of Independence
Category: In Memoriam
Hazel Court passed away Tuesday at the age of 82. She starred in Hammer Studios' groundbreaking The Curse of Frankenstein as well as several of Roger Corman's Poe flicks - Premature Burial, The Raven, and The Masque of the Red...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:28 AM • •
Category: Horror Movies
Although I don't write about it much, I am a fan of the old black and white horror movies. I don't much care for the modern gorefests. At any rate, I was surprised to see this story on Reuters. Apparently,...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:54 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Horror Movies
First the spiders, courtesy of Eight Legged Freaks. What can I say, I love this song......
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:51 AM • •
Category: Archives
This is one from May 2005...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 9:29 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Horror Movies
John Hawks points us to something near and dear to my heart. Monster movies and Science. More specifically, The Biology of B-Movie Monsters. Where we learn, for example, that the ants in Them were sporting some mighty serious bling: These...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 3:06 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Horror Movies
Actually it was Chad over at Uncertain Principles who mentioned Jurassic Park and Tremors and links to an excellant discussion of the first Tremors movie (at last count there are four Tremors movies). Minor quibble the line uttered by Rhonda...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 1:22 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: In Memoriam
Robert Sterling had a wide and varied career. He played Topper George Kerby in the 1950's TV series Topper, was in Showboat and even made a Blondie movie (Blondie Meets the Boss 1939). I am most familiar with him through...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 5:26 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Horror Movies
Peter Benchley passed away yesterday. He was 65. From...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 9:23 AM • •
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