Humor His satanic majesty 19 Mar 2010 Here is physical evidence that PZ Miiiaaaaeers exists and has devotees even in the Antipodes… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity New paper on polyploid speciation 27 Aug 2009 For a long time now, people have known of speciation by the multiplication of chromosomes (polyploidy), either of one’s own chromosomes (autopolyploidy) or by doubling a mismatched set from some other species’ chromosomes (allopolyploidy) to even up the numbers and gene complements. Some have thought this to be an uninteresting… Read More
Humor Metaphysics, a poem 26 Oct 201226 Oct 2012 It rains. It rains here and now. It rains on the possible fat men in that doorway. It rains in the desert. It rains in the jungle. It’s conventional. It rains in the holes. It rains in the shadows. It rains vaguely here, with a fuzzy edge to the drops…. Read More
The first thing that comes to my mind is the expression ‘Lord love a duck,’ or in this case, giraffe love a duck. Thank you for introducing me to Cyanide and Happiness Comics.
What’s particularly amusing about this is that it reinvents the medieval conception of how species came to be. The giraffe, ironically, was thought itself to be a hybrid of the camel and the leopard, which explains its medieval name cameleopard – true story.
Yes. Somebody queried who Snowflake was, and I realised it was a bit confusing. Fortunately, not many people are called John…