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 June 28, 2009 by Cheshire
The other day, I went on a rant about PETA acting overly sanctimonious by sending President Obama a flytrap because he had the audacity to swat a fly on national TV.
Well…one of my readers forwarded me this article about humane cockroach control. When PETA doesn’t have to distort any facts, they actually write halfway decent [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2009 by Cheshire
PETA is one of those groups that bases it’s public statements on what it can best display it’s righteous indignation at.
Remember Obama killing a fly at his interview?
Here’s the video:
Well, guess how PETA responded?
But now People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, calling it an “execution,” wants the commander-in-chief to show [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2009 by Cheshire
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I’m not even going to pretend that I read everything what pops up in popular science. My exposure to pop-sci articles consists largely of stumbling into the Iowa State University bookstore and thumbing through the science magazines, usually after I look at the pretty women in fashion magazines. I’m a [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by Cheshire
Bug girl has an excellent post on Cochineal.
It’s amusing what happens when people find out that bugs are in their food. Anything I’d write would most likely be parroting her…I think she said it quite well. Bugs are in our food, whether by accident or by nature of the food organism’s biology. This particular food [...]
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Posted on January 12, 2009 by Cheshire
Many species of spider make their living around human habitations. Some of these guys can be very common where they are found. Occasionally, people do get bitten and do experience adverse effects. However, the incidence of these bites is far lower than most people realize. The vast majority of spider bites go unreported simply because [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2009 by Cheshire
Take a look at Casey Luskin’s diagram in his most recent post over at Evolution News and Views.
Believe it or not, this diagram hits close to home to me.
You see, the very fact that I’m alive is proof positive that this diagram fails the most basic test of irreducible complexity. I have a part missing [...]
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Posted on December 30, 2008 by Cheshire
Many spiders get a really bad rap merely because they have hideously toxic venom.
Okay, that’s actually a really good reason to be very, very careful when dealing with some spiders. Especially Black Widows.
Black widows in areas they live are pretty much ubiquitous. I got the chance to collect them while I was in Texas, and [...]
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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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