Why is daylight savings time still a thing?
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
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
According to Malcolm Gladwell, that means I can do open heart surgery! Any volunteers?
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.
He tried to argue that global warming is a hoax, because it snows in February.
New Scientist has an article titled 5 things you're dying to ask about head transplants. Yeah, someone said we can expect to be able to do head transplants in a few years, so the media are all wound up and asking stupid questions. Here are the questions New Scientist thought were really important.
What’s the difference between brain and head transplants?
Could the transplant technique work for a cryogenically frozen head?
Would the surgery be psychologically damaging?
I’m a registered organ donor. Could my body be used for this?
There’s one more. It’s so stupid and misleading that I had to single it out.
