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pharyngula | July 18, 2006I've come out at the top of another list: Top Ten Blogs That 11D Can't Spell. I am humbled and honored.
mikethemadbiologist | July 15, 2006
(by way of Shakespeare's Sister)
...and aren't you against this sort of thing.
I just can't help myself...
oracknows | July 15, 2006Last weekend, I posted a YouTube video of William Shatner singing Elton John's Rocket Man in his--shall we say?--unique fashion. A fellow ScienceBlogger commented and asked if there was a video of Shatner singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I'm not sure that this quite qualifies as what he had in mind, but it's the best (if you could call it that) I could come up with...
LIke, wow, man.
scientificactivist | July 12, 2006When I saw this earlier today, I knew I had to write a post on it. So, even though Afarensis beat me to it, I'm going to do it anyway.
I just love this article from the BBC. It sounds kind of like what an elementary school student would write if he or she was suddenly endowed with professional writing abilities: it doesn't hold back any of its excitment, and it uses terms like "killer kangaroo" and "flesh-eating marsupial" in lieu of more formal scientific names:
'Killer kangaroo' evidence found
Palaeontologists digging in northern Australia have found fossil evidence of several new…
grrlscientist | July 11, 2006Caught on video; even lifeguards need to take a break now and again.
So .. do you think all those people went back into the pool after that performance? Would you go back into the pool if you were there?
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tags: streaming video, humor, prank, hotel pool, lifeguard
mikethemadbiologist | July 11, 2006For all of you who have ever played with little toy soldiers (and I don't mean that as a perjorative), Steve Gilliard's piece on (Party)-Jumpin' Joe Lieberman is really funny. I figure there might be one or two around these parts...
pharyngula | July 10, 2006Hard to believe, but check out the source this anti-choicer uses to back up his essay on the callous horror of abortion.
The Onion.
Satire and irony are now officially dead.
The author has a new post up—he still doesn't get it. He's still babbling about the fictional author of the Onion piece getting all those abortions.
It's a marvel. There really are people that stupid out there.
(via Curly Tales of War Pigs)
oracknows | July 10, 2006As others have complained, a new and overzealous spam filter caused a number of us ScienceBloggers headaches while trying to post over the weekend and has caused problems in commenting as well. I've been informed that a fix has been done. We've been asked to do a post; so I figured I'd really test whether the overzealousness of the filter has been eliminated by posting a link to a hilarious online game that I've encountered: Nudist Trampolining.
If you see the post, the fix must have worked...
Oh, and the site is worksafe (well, borderline worksafe, depending on your specific work environment…
pharyngula | July 10, 2006Carel Brest van Kempen has extracted a few fascinating quotes from an old book he has. It's titled Creative and Sexual Science, by a phrenologist and physiologist from 1870, and it contains some wonderful old examples of folk genetics.
President Bush would be pleased:
"Human and animal hybrids are denounced most terribly in the Bible; obviously because the mixing up of man with beast, or one beast species with another, deteriorates. Universal amalgamation would be disastrous."
Although, unfortunately, he then goes on to use this as an argument against miscegenation.
Another lesson is that…
mikethemadbiologist | July 9, 2006
Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham in 2003, who received $2.4 million in bribes and is now a felon (photo from Vanity Fair). Not only is he corrupt, but he's a dork too.
pharyngula | July 8, 2006So...is this you?
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grrlscientist | July 8, 2006
How far will you go to protect your prized cattle from "cattle terrorism" and from theft by aliens?
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tags: cattle abduction, cattle terrorism, streaming video, humor, silliness, parody
jlynch | July 7, 2006Commenting over at the Panda's Thumb, "steve s" offers a Pythonesque take on ID. Well, it made me laugh.
pharyngula | July 7, 2006That's some kinky photo Revere has put up—and he's looking for captions. Most of mine were not fit for a Family Blog, but I'm sure you can do better.
Oh, and if brain teasers are more your thing, World's Fair has a mysterious puzzle to solve.
mementomori | July 7, 2006Here are some of the latest headlines from the blue and white orb majestically do-si-doing in some obscure galaxy so remote not even a Klingon war fleet could find it if they flew right under its nose. Your attention please:
Hunting Norwegian whalers shock tourists
I'd be shocked too if, while following a docent around a narrow Oslo street I happened to come upon a team of thugs harpooning a covey of cowering fishermen.
Monkeys are hard-wired for facial recognition
Which will undoubtedly lead to the demise of that classic simian one-liner "Eeeh! Ooo-oo-Yeeeh!" (translation: I never…
evolvingthoughts | July 6, 2006Ha! While I was away, being humiliated and disparaged (and that was only my family), I get a mention in Nature. Well on their website, anyway, as one (#30) of the top fifty science blogs. Science education and reporting is in a pretty pass when a philosopher gets rated as a science reporter. [Via Panda's Thumb]
pharyngula | July 6, 2006The most amusing coverage of the Nature top science blogs article comes from The Technology Chronicles, which begins by calling scientists "sober, dispassionate, precise" and suggests that we've abandoned "Olympian impartiality" to compete with Cute Overload. I get the impression the author hasn't ever met a real scientist. Nick will love being called a "budding Matt Drudge."
We need more cute, huh? OK, I can do cute. I had to run my photo through a face transformer to do it, but here I am, rendered a bit more adorably than in real life.
Now I just sit back and wait for the fans to roll in…
oracknows | July 5, 2006This week's issue of Nature features a list of the top five science blogs, based on Technorati rankings for number of incoming links, narrowly defining its science blogs as blogs written by working scientists.
Not surprisingly, a ScienceBlogs blog Pharyngula came out on top at number one, followed by that stalwart resource for information about evolution and the debunking of creationism, The Panda's Thumb. Coming in at number five is new ScienceBlog The Scientific Activist. Not a bad showing at all, with seven of the top ten science blogs belonging to the ScienceBlogs collective, particularly…