Posted on November 13, 2009 by Cheshire
So y’all are familiar with the New-Age movement where any old bullshit is accepted and respected as a religion, right?
Well, some of these loonies think the world’s going to end in 2012 based only on the misinterpretation of a Mayan Calandar.
Okay…so there’s a Facebook Group called ‘Shut Up, The World Won’t End in 2012‘ which [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2009 by Cheshire
I recently hosted Skeptic’s Circle, but I’ve got to tell you…COTS feels a lot more like home. I’m just as much an entomology student as a skeptic…but I try to focus this blog on insect biology as much as I can with occasional forays into other subjects.
So without further ado, I give you this month’s [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2009 by Cheshire
Being an entomology student can be exciting a way that’s both intellectual and in a way that’s more like ‘WTF’. People are a lot more curious about insects than they let on, and I get a lot of questions about bugs in my everyday life as a student when I tell people what I’m studying.
However, [...]
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Posted on June 6, 2009 by Cheshire
Circus of the Spineless #39 is up at Bug Girl’s Blog.
This is a blog carnival celebrating the biology and diversity of the vast majority of life: Metazoans without backbones!
Send me your very bests posts about insects and other invertebrates at Cheshire.entomoblog (at) gmail (dot) com and I’ll post them in the next edition of this [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Cheshire
If you declare something to be ‘relatively simple’, your first attempt at a particular test will give you a result that leaves you stammering ‘but that’s…impossible’.
Ticks are actually pretty easy to work with. If you drop one, just check your leg every two minutes. You’ll find it…eventually.
I am, apparently, an elitist because I understand biology. [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by Cheshire
Cramming eight male ticks into a 1.5 milliliter vial filled mostly with cotton and sodium hydroxide is actually a bit harder than you think. It can be done, though.
If you have a laptop, you can tell who the new employees are in the library with minimal difficulty. They’re the ones who go through your bag [...]
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Posted on January 6, 2009 by Cheshire
more music charts
But I think these two circles should be much further apart than they are.
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Posted on January 2, 2009 by Cheshire
Casey Luskin posts on the Discovery Institute’s blog Evolution News and Views. He’s always got something vacuous to say. Earlier this week, he posted that a bicyle was irreducibly complex.
I like to explain the “irreducible core” using the analogy of a bicycle: A bicycle has an irreducible core that requires a frame, two wheels, a [...]
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Posted on December 25, 2008 by Cheshire
So I haven’t been on the blogosphere for too long, but my weblog is just starting to get some decent traffic (mostly as a result of the researchblogging posts I try to do about once a week or so) and I’m just becoming aware of some of the conflicts that take place regularly on the [...]
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Posted on December 24, 2008 by Cheshire
Looks like I made a wee mistake on my last youtube post. I screwed the HTML up without realizing it.
I meant to post this video titled This is not for you and I guess it didn’t post as I expected it to. It’s not letting me embed it, so I’ll just link to it and [...]
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