Mar 25 2013
I’m flying off to Seattle this week…and did you know that my home state has the excellent good taste to have declared Anax junius the state insect? Just having a state insect is a great good step. And in case you’ve forgotten, I’ll be speaking at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard Wednesday evening.
Mar 23 2013
Can we all just pretend that vipers and serpents are hairless, limbless cats?
Mar 22 2013
(Found on a site called The Cephalopodiatrist. I wish I’d thought of that name.)
Mar 20 2013
What with all the bad weather around here, my wife is staying at an apartment near her workplace. And every time she does that, she starts sending me these kinds of photos. Should I be concerned? (via petitchef)
Mar 20 2013
In March 2005, after record rains but before devastating wildfires that destroyed wide swaths of the Mojave National Preserve, I did a little thinking in one of my favorite places about solitude, growing up silent, campfires, and Dear old Dad. Oh, and yucca moths. Fleshed out slightly more, this KCET piece will be a chapter in …
Mar 19 2013
Earlier this month, there was a flurry of headlines in the pop-sci press that exasperated me. “Have scientists discovered reversible evolution?” was one; “Evidence of Reverse Evolution Seen in Dust Mites” was another. They failed because they always tried to express a subtle idea in a fluffy way that screwed up a more fundamental concept …
Mar 18 2013
Bees get caffeinated at coffee flowers? But of course they do. (via NatGeo)
Mar 15 2013
What? TED vectoring pseudoscience? Unpossible! In one recent particular instance, though, a TED talk firmly grounded in bullshit — literal and figurative — is gaining a mortifying amount of traction with people who really should know better. The lecturer is Allan Savory, who for the last couple decades has been pushing his own brand of …
Mar 13 2013
It’s a pollen tube extending in zero G. It still counts as sex in space, though.
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