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 November 9, 2009 by Cheshire
A New York Times article discusses how to rig your cellphone into some damn nifty tools:
“We convert cellphones into devices that diagnose diseases,” said Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and member of the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, who created the devices. He has formed a [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2009 by Cheshire
http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/ufbir/index.shtml
Basically every world record you could want to know about bugs is here.
Biggest? Loudest? Most fecundiferous? Most instars? Longest lived? Shortest lived?
It’s all here…and I probably spent far more time than I should have clicking around on it.
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Posted on June 4, 2009 by Cheshire
Welcome to the 112th edition of Skeptic’s circle! Since one of the biggest complaints against intellectuals seems to be that we’re all elitist bastards, we decided to throw a high class party simply out of spite. No $12 bottle of vodka here, only the finest spirits are allowed.
You’re in luck…we’ve just started, so nothing crazy [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2009 by Cheshire
Courtesy of Beetles in the Bush, I bring you a video of parasitic was development from inside a caterpillar. I also bring you a great opportunity to discuss wasp biology.
A lot of people think parasites are just these idle, simple degenerate creatures. Hell…there’s an entire talkorigins page chastising creationists for touting [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2009 by Cheshire
The latest animal darling of the blogosphere is the pacific barreleye, a fish that looks at the world literally through it’s skull. It has eyes that rotate within a transparent dome-like head to look at the world.
Various other bloggers have covered this so I’m not gonna do a real thorough writeup, however I did find [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2009 by Cheshire
Yeah…sorry I haven’t kept up with the bug-blogging as of late. Had a few things going on in my life…but I dare not turn this into a ‘bitch-about-my-life’ blog. There are far too many of those and quite frankly, my strifes aren’t that interesting.
So…let’s go through some of the news that’s been brewing since my [...]
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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 14, 2009 by Cheshire
A really cool video about parasitoid wasps from National Geographic. You can see the larva developing on the inside of the aphid and the wasp emerging from it’s mummy.
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Posted on January 7, 2009 by Cheshire
Quite literally…every time I work, I deal with multiple references from this video.
I usually tell them they can’t organize things by penis.
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