I asked my masters in the Freethoughtblogs collective, because there are (I believe) some evolutionary biologists in the house. However, I don’t want to turn this into a case study of “what happens when you ask a scientist a question?” [because the answer is usually “maybe” or “that’s bullshit.”]
This is from the January 1908 Journal of the American Medical Association. I stumbled across this reference when I was looking to see whether AMA had supported the eugenics movement, or not.
The boffins didn’t even predict it, except under the “there may be run-away reactions” cover.
This is incredible. On a scale of 0-10 WTFs this is a 10.
This is almost certainly a pre-release bit of propaganda, but it’s – as is the case for most Russian propaganda – well done. The Russians have their own F-35! [france24]
Yesterday, I had a lot of reasons to think about the question of mechanical advantage involving ladders. The 40-foot extension ladder that I ordered (one has to special-order such things) finally arrived and it was time to clean out the gutter on the upper edge of my house.
Whoever came up with that stupid, cruel, “boil a frog slowly” story? It’s wrong at many levels.
I recently ran into one of the tried-and-boring christian come-backs against atheism: “if you don’t believe in god, how can you find joy in your life?” You know, that kind of yawner.
I suspect this is the same in most states in the US, right now: you go through a maze of websites and eventually sign up to get the COVID-19 vaccine, perhaps getting a text message to verify that you can be reached.