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She’s Leaving Home 27 Aug 2013 | 04:44 pm
“She’s Leaving Home,” on the Beatles’ album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, comes in at number 82 on Rolling Stones’ list of the 100 Greatest Beatles Songs. The link notes that it’s based on ...
Bamboo shark walks the walk 27 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm
by Matthew Cobb This video of a bamboo shark (Hemiscyllium halmahera) strolling across some coral was posted on Twitter by Kyle Hill (@sci_phile): This oviparous species, which is about 70 cm long, ...
Goodnight 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
To all my friends overseas who are up late, I couldn’t resist slipping in this song, the finale of the Beatles’ White Album. It’s a bit lachrymose but I love it. And there’s a wonderful cover by Kar....
Academic administrators: hide your unbelief! 26 Aug 2013 | 11:12 pm
Reader Kent called my attention to a new piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education called “Dodging the God Squad.” It’s by someone using the name “Madalyn Dawkins” (clearly a nod to Richard), who won...
“I Want to Tell You” 26 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
nb: I’m getting ready go to to Poland, which involves writing two talks (Warsaw and Cracow residents, be warned) as well as doing a book, so posting this week will be largely devoid of deep thought. ...
Measles back again, thanks to religion 26 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
This is one of the more palpable dangers of faith: disease spread by a refusal to accept modern medicine, itself based on the assumption that God will heal you. Except he doesn’t. According to sever...
International Cat Day: Readers’ cats (now with graphics and video!) 26 Aug 2013 | 04:47 pm
Here’s another installment of the moggies sent by readers, along with some description. We will do this again in the future, so starting taking GOOD pictures of your cat to send in the future. And be...
Abbey Road, Medley, side 2 26 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
Today’s Beatles “song” is actually a medley of seven short songs amalgamated on the second side of Abbey Road (1969). The medley ranks as #23 on Rolling Stones’ list of The 100 greatest Beatles songs....
Two lovely mantids 25 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm
Biologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki continues to produce great posts on his travels in Africa. You can see them at his website The Smaller Majority, and this week he’s posted on the Empusidae, ...
Famous physiologist embarrasses himself by claiming that the modern theory of evolution is in tatters 25 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
Here we go again: someone arguing that DARWIN WAS RONG (well, he was, on several issues) and also that DARWIN’S INTELLECTUAL DESCENDANTS ARE RONG TOO. But this time it’s not a creationist but a card-...
