I am feeling old now.
This skink looks like it just burst out of someone’s chest, and in addition, it’s full of little baby skinks.
Then he waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.
A most excellent piece of work: Ryan Gregory is featured in this article on the ubiquity of junk DNA. Good explanations all around.
We had a blizzard this week. It’s bitterly cold right now. I was trying hard to think of good reasons to have left the Pacific Northwest, and this is about the only thing I came up with: Devil’s Club.
At 5pm Pacific time tonight, BlogTalkRadio will have a discussion between Alan Boyle, Seth Shostak, and Don Lincoln on Aliens! Shostak is the SETI guy, whose latest book is Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Lincoln is a physicist who has written Alien Universe: Extraterrestrial Life in Our Minds and in the Cosmos.
According to Malcolm Gladwell, that means I can do open heart surgery! Any volunteers?
Now you can learn everything you need to know about octopus sex. It’s a bit tangly:
Apparently, I missed the big noise raised about the color of this dress.
Some people see it as blue and black. Others (including me) see it as white and gold.