teh antropologist john hawks wirites

Brain size is under stabilizing selection, and both energetic and ontogenetic demands favor smaller ones.

im ahjead of teh curve again.

p.s. he alslso says 'extraordinary claims require more than one brain'. oh boy do they ever!

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"Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds."

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The plastic soda bottle was invented by Nathaniel Wyeth, son of the great illustrator N. C. Wyeth.

Actually, he was better than great. He was... Cugat.

Labels: A, ambiguous antecedents, Killer Fact, science, technology, too much information

so teh hot c ristmasn itam tahhis yheer is teh yapper stopper dog collar! its a gret lital gaget. it booasts 'Seven intensity levels for a wide variety of dispositions' an 'Surgical stainless steel contact points to minimize irritation to the dog's skin'.

teh heaart of the unit is a capacitor teh size of a pintglass form a old fender bass amp. for a slplit secand itll blast ur baloaved animal caompanion with 3200 volts! at the highast powar setign under idael conditiio0nts a mediamsize dog wil literaly burst inta flame! evan hte largast dogs wil be stone dead bafore they hit teh grouound.

so my queestoin to u is not can yuo aford to owan one a these beauties but rathar can you affrod not to? i leave hte answasr to that one up to ur conciscieances ladiesangentlamenan cashonloy pleasethankyou!

BZZZZTTZTZT!!1!1!

ps if antyhign gos wrorogn pls contact my atornys ziegfeld ziegfeld ziegfeld ziegfeld ziegfeld ziegfeld ziegfeld bunghole an ziegfeld thxn!

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Indeed not.

Welcome to 1978. Those of you who are too young to remember those days may not realize how ordinary and unremarkable these events were, in that long-vanished age. People like this, they were your neighbors or the cop on the beat. We had come so far, but then, somehow, we lost our way.

Labels: aerospace, All our pomp of yesterday, Blind Owl Wilson, Canned Heat, cultural anthropology, if music be the food of love, Michelson-Morley, music, science, thought experiment, video

as i alwys say

It's just neat launching something that really wasn't intended to be launched

Labels: aerospace, career opportunities, ordnance, science, video

Virtually all of the entertainment and information you will ever need can now be obtained from shitmydadsays:

I turn the kitchen faucet on and the shower burns you, yes, I get it... No, I'm not gonna stop, I'm just saying yes, I get that concept.

The rest is available from Explosions and Boobs.

Labels: science, the future

Jaguars have been known to eat avocados.

I once met a house cat in Berkeley, CA who had a habit of breaking into a neighbor's hous to eat their avocados. He also showed a keen interest in babies' fontanelles.

A word to the wise, my friends. Forewarned is forearmed.

Labels: brains, cannibalism, Killer Fact, science, Teletubbies, The Wonders of Nature

im nto sure exacly wqhat this meeans but i thnk it mghuight explan alot abuot some ove my freidns:

...the total range of [human] mutational variation today exceeds the average human-Neandertal difference for any given gene.

Labels: anthropology, science

The Department of the Interior has determined that you are not endangered.

Furthermore, if Homo sapiens, or a population thereof, were listed as endangered ... Alaskan natives would be entitled to kill them, sell the edible portions within their villages, and to convert them into "authentic native articles of handicrafts and clothing." 16 U.S.C. [section] 1539 (e).

Update!

Sorry, we don't do politics here.

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my yetti cant seam to bassh teh stupid pingoaun much frathar then 300 yards. clerly im not siuted to teh arctic lifesttyle. which makes me wondar wtf im doign in maine.

but mabe youl do betar!

Via

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teh modarn chickckcn is dascendned from teh red jungle fowal of malayssia.

theyl pay for this.

uuuopdopt!

endogenous retroviruses. hoally toledo! this is sicence fiction!

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Steam cell breakthrough defuses debate

steeam cels?!@ i thoguht those wen't out in teh 19th centrary.

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i liek my hadliane betar.

The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.

top of waht u may wel ask. but they dont say.

uuopdate!

wel for all i know mabye they do0 say! i didn read it. im a blogar ffs not a damn resaerch asistant.

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Exciting new developments in Very Large Rubber Band Technology loom on the horizon. By tomorrow it will be banned, or taxed.

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Six Die from Brain-Eating Amoeba in Lakes

[It] enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.

u know by chantce i was just tlkaign to somboddy ont the bus abuou8t etign brains — just a plesant convasation — an he kep snortign an rolign is eyes aruond. maybe they got to im alredy. didnt ask abuout lakes though. it seeemed indeliccate. but than he howled an tryd to stick is fingner in my eye which they dont mentoin that as a symptom so i gues he was probly ok.

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ok so i got tihs frend. his grilfernd bork upw ith im an a momth latar she starts stalkin him. wich is kinda backwards but nevar mind. seems she was pised off cuause he didn want er back an she figred shed change his mind taht way. but it was abuout teh fifth time theyd broak up an u know aftar u stick ur hand in a blendar five or xix times u start thiknign 'gee somthings wrogn here. mabe i outa try a difernt blender'.

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i just bookmraked anosognosia on del.icio.us. its a conditian whe're poeople with thought disordars think their perfecly normal whan in fact there getin prety damn wacky. but its treateble!

...squirting ice cold water into the left ear... is known to temporarily ameliorate unawareness of impairment.

good to know just in case!

but ok so teh first two 'recamended tags' were 'funny' and 'politics'.

ba-dum cshshshsh!

uppdapt!

anosognosias teh conditian! del.icio.us is a website. thot id clare that up ok!

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wierd dutch dude makes windpoward robotts!

creeepity-crepitty claknkity-clank!

via gale

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I'm not making it up. That's Col. B-S over there on the right.

The explorers also carried with them a church organ from Dorset as a gift to local Bolivians in order to secure their help with finding the meteorite.

Via.

Update

As I was noisily rattling around the house last night with nothing to read, the girlfriend handed me an omnibus edition of Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger novels to shut me up. Well, I'm enjoying the hell out of it, and it reminded me of this character. Hence, more Blashfordsnelliana for the faithful:

Col J. B-S. in the Telegraph.

He's got a web site, naturally.

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