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Today is Charles Darwin birthday. (Damn, I really should photoshop a party hat) So what better way to celebrate the 201st anniversary of his birth than…

This “whale pwns bird” video has been making ripples in the Twitterverse: (Via the Deep Sea News crew)

[Thanks to some odd bug in the software, this was listed as “unpublished”, so I hit “Publish”. Obviously it was published, because it had 2 comment on it. But it does seem timely, int the light of this BBC report … Continue reading →

Uh oh. Now I have some inkling of what Orac goes through. Which is an oblique way of apologising for the length and tone of this post. A couple of years ago Jerry Fodor (a psychologist philosopher of mind) wrote … Continue reading →

It’s a meme! Steffi wanted to know our answers to several questions and even my better half has joined in, so I don’t want to feel left out. But first, the obligatory pet photo – Did you really mean to … Continue reading →

This is really a post advertising a couple of carnivals, but it contains a rather important result. Below is a parsimony tree of URLs for entries to the 20th Carnival of Evolution, where the blogs with mutliple entries are marked … Continue reading →

There are about 24 hours left until the deadline for submissions to the 20th Carnival of Evolution. The new edition of CoE will go up on Monday, February 1st. So get your posts on evolution featured on the one place … Continue reading →

My better half thinks this needs a caption too: a LOLproto-bird?

It’s Friday afternoon, so here’s an excuse to look like you’re thinking hard. This picture has been all over the science news -“for reasons best explained by GrrlScientist”:http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/01/orange_stripey_dinosaurs_fossi.php Artwork by Chuang Zhao and Lida Xing But it needs a better … Continue reading →

It’s coming soon. The next edition of the science carnival Scientia Pro Publica (which is slightly more popular than Scientia Pwns Publica) will appear next Monday at Kind of Curious. If you’ve written something about science, nature and medicine in … Continue reading →