evolution

Insect pain from secback 645 days old

For those of you who came here from the Science Blogs this is ancient history, but it might be new for the rest of you. It comes courtesy of the consistently ...

(I'm picking up) death vibrations from secback 784 days old

Honey bees have many natural enemies, but probably the worst are hornets, who invade their nests, kill them and haul their bodies home to feed their ...

Spiders can be friends too from secback 804 days old

Here is a fascinating piece about social spiders. They live together in colonies, where they make huge great fuckoff webs the size of houses. They normally ...

31 days to building a Better Blog from secback 806 days old

[ ... ] palm. Go on, I dare you. More about spiders and evolution here and here. My progress in the 31 day challenge, meanwhile, is summarised here.

I'm sorry, I've just come from secback 814 days old

[ ... ] Molecular Evolution, they're going to make eight new base molecules to add to the existing four. That makes twelve, which is three times ...

If spiders are from Mars, insects must be from Venus from secback 843 days old

[ ... ] anyone tells you evolution is just a theory, that there's no correlating data, so it's not falsifiable, you can now tell them to fuck off. ...

The looking glass: a footnote from secback 878 days old

[ ... ] the theory of evolution. "Creationists" pretend that "intelligent design" by a supreme entity is the scientific explanation for the universe. ...

Through the looking glass from secback 884 days old

[ ... ] attitudes to evolution. The piece is headlined Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution, but I'm not sure who finds that news. The ...

Happy Christmas, Mr Darwin from secback 903 days old

The thing about the evolution argument is, it is so over. The whole theory has been endlessly fought over, dissected, subjected to so many tests. Honestly, ...

Reasons to be cheerful from secback 907 days old

At least we don't live in Kansas. Pity the poor sods who do if they want an education. As reported by science blogger Pharyngula in this post, apparently ...