Damned monkeys. Stop gawking, put the cell phone away, and flee. We get these things up here in Minnesota, too, and one thing you will not get from me is a video showing it off. I’ll be in the basement, hiding under a mattress.
Category Archive: Science
May 20 2013
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: How ladylike!
It’s the lovely Pink Dragon millipede — it’s bright enough to belong in the girls’ aisle at the toy store. It also squirts cyanide at you if you annoy it.
May 20 2013
Disaster in Oklahoma
Moore, Oklahoma has been completely flattened by a tornado. Homes and businesses have been destroyed, but also a couple of schools and a hospital. And here’s a time-lapse video of this monster ripping through the countryside. Action News 5 – Memphis, Tennessee What can we do? I mentioned it to Foundation Beyond Belief — go …
May 17 2013
Friday Cephalopod: The Great White Cuttle
(From TONMO, on a page about raising captive cuttlefish)
May 14 2013
Perspective
Science does make gods look ridiculous, as the illustration below illustrates. (I’m putting it below the fold because it’s a big image.)
May 14 2013
Angeline Jolie just became an even more interesting person
Wow. Jolie is a beautiful woman who makes a living as an actress, where looks can be important, and she discovered that she carried an allele of BRCA1 that puts her at a very high risk of coming down with breast cancer sometime in her life. She looked at her situation rationally — she is …
May 13 2013
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: I’m guessing uncircumcised
But that membrane hanging off of it is just plain weird. Maybe the video will help make sense of it all. (via ZooBorns)
May 13 2013
Do you need another reason to despise Facebook?
Here’s one. Mark Zuckerberg is pushing for more oil drilling and pipelines. Two major tech leaders have resigned from Mark Zuckerberg’s new political group, FWD.us, in protest of the organization’s controversial decision to bankroll ads supporting Keystone XL and drilling in the Arctic National Refuge. The Zuckerberg group publicly says its top priority is immigration …
May 12 2013
The SyFy channel should get right on this
It’s the Attack of the Killer Ice Sheets! Winter isn’t quite over here in Minnesota. It’s mostly over, but some vestiges still like to sneak up on us when we’re not looking. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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