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 January 19, 2009 by Cheshire
Last week, I made a post about a species of spider whose ecological niche is basically your garage. This species is what is known as a synanthropic species…a kind of animal who is very closely allied with people in terms of where it lives. The particular spider I discussed had venom similar to a species [...]
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Posted on December 31, 2008 by Cheshire
If you’ve ever found big, black crickets in your backyard you’ve seen something from the genus Gryllus. They’re the guys you probably see in your garage during the summer looking for shelter and chirping in your backyard during those warm, lazy nights. They’re pretty ubiquitous and generally pretty recognizable.
Crickets chirp to attract mates using modified [...]
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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 19, 2008 by Cheshire
So who didn’t love Walker, Texas Ranger when they were ten?
I sure as hell did…no point in lying about it. But as you grow up, these things lose much of their appeal. When I was in high school and middle school, you were cool if you listened to the Offspring. Nowadays, they’re like a guilty [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2008 by Cheshire
Ray Comfort laments about how Athiests don’t have their own music.
I was listening to the Hallelujah Chorus of Handel’s Messiah recently and thinking about what atheists have as an equivalent. An equivalent? They don’t have a Bible, they don’t belong to a Church, they don’t have a relationship with God, and they don’t have their [...]
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Posted on December 12, 2008 by Cheshire
Okay…I’m coming out of isolation merely an hour before my first final to post this…and oddly enough, it’s not about science. Or religion. Or creationism. It’s about a subject I vowed myself to never touch in this blog: Celebrities.
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Posted on December 6, 2008 by Cheshire
Posted on December 5, 2008 by Cheshire
First thing, they owe the poor professor an apology. Why can’t this ever happen in real life?
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Posted on December 4, 2008 by Cheshire
Okay…I probably should have done this to begin with, but let’s discuss some very basic boll weevil biology and pest management.
The boll weevil Anthonomus grandis which is portrayed in this episode is a curculionid. This group of beetles is characterized by that long snout you see in the cartoon. They got this right, however at [...]
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