I always thought Wesley Crusher, from Star Trek:TNG was an insufferable know it all twit who should have been spaced at birth! Turns out, I ...

Statement from the American Geophysical Union: American Geophysical Union 2 August 2005 AGU Release No. 05-28 For Immediate Release AGU: Pre...

I recently wrote a post on Dinosaur Embryos . One of the more interesting aspects of the find was that differences in relative growth of var...

From here . First, the relevant bits: In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session with a small group of reporters, Bush essentially endors...

My post on Solenodon and Bisonalveus browni has been linked to by a creationist (as has Pharyngula's ) You can also go here , here a...

Well not really. But according to this some species of squid engage in cannibalism: Now Bruce Deagle of the University of Tasmania, Austra...

Here we go again. According to Eschaton The New Media Rules : It looks like Republicans have learned a new trick in the media. If you give e...

the Cutting Edge (52% dark, 43% spontaneous, 33% vulgar) your humor style: CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | DARK Your humor's mostly innocent and...

Dinosaur Embryos  The above is a dinosaur embryo belonging to a species called Massospondylus carinatus which is believed to be an ancestor ...

No, I have not gone and got myself all religified. I'm still the same cynical smartass who thinks we are descended from monkeys! You see...

I have written several posts on this before. They can be found here and here . From Well's paper on TOPS: TOPS then explicitly rejects...

This is absolutely despicable. Yet, the mainstream media keeps wondering why people are abandoning them in droves. It concerns a missing p...

Hybrid Fly  According to National Geographic News the above is a relatively new species of fly that formed as a hybrid of two existing spec...

Athenae at First Draft has a perceptive post about Democrats and the need to not allow others to define us: But what we have do, Will my lov...

Although it sounds pretty cheesy (the science aspects suck), this is actually a first rate movie. Seems to be a low budget film and I don...

This article from Science Daily is pretty interesting. A team of researchers from The Institute for Genomic Research have sequenced the gen...

"It's my birthday and I'll blog if I want to..." I took the day off because it's my birthday today. I plan on blogging...

The above is a picture of a type of ediacaran fossil called a vendobiont. From Geotimes : Radiometrically dated between 551 and 538 million...

The Yale Journal of Industrial Ecology has an entire issue devoted to the impact of consumption on the environment. All the articles are fr...

Although I don't know much about botany, I find this fascinating. The above is a picture of (as near as I can tell) the fruit or seed of...