The Darwinian Gardener again 5 Oct 2008 My favourite gardener, the Darwinian Gardener, gives another interview in the Florida News-Journal with which I can only whole-heartedly agree. One can work in a garden as a Darwinian gardener if one (i) needs to reclaim a driveway or path to the front door for one’s own purposes, (ii) has a light carbon footprint by using manual rather than internal combustion power, and (iii) has chilled beer on hand. I suspect the Darwinian Gardener is a many of refinement, and drinks Cooper’s Pale Ale. I suspect he’d be very pleased to know that I have a considerable amount of data supporting his theory that brick and concrete triggers the hormones of grass plants. Humor
Humor The real Olympic performers 24 Aug 200818 Sep 2017 Certain nations who shall remain nameless have been doing a fair bit of skiting about how well they’ve done. So I thought I’d do a bit of number crunching. Of course it isn’t completed (or is it?) but using the Wikipedia population figures and the official medal tally, I plotted… Read More
Humor God causes a Sumerian recession 17 Dec 2009 The Onion, as always, nails it… Members of the earth’s earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth. According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to… Read More
Cognition Too adaptationist? 25 Aug 201225 Aug 2012 Penises can too tell the time… As always, click through. Read More