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…i am at home, by myself, getting ready to cook dinner while i work on freelance webdesign. i have beer, a steak to cook, a hot grill and some asparaguses (asparagi?) to throw on there, along with a potato soaked in olive oil in the oven, baking. it is a comfy 79 degrees f, and […]

okay, in a zoo, and by “created” i mean it in the sense that genesis means things were created: it was born. A rare pygmy hippopotamus,Choeropsis liberiensis, was born in a zoo near Paris on 5 June 2007. Named Aldo, this pygmy hippo is approximately the size of a human baby. He is one of […]

trogdog has been home since early monday morning, and things are going mostly smoothly. gromit has not yet learned his place entirely — trog seems reluctant to put him in it, but he’s clearly annoyed at all the mouth and crotch lickings he receives when he’s trying to poop or pee or walk or stand […]

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So how safe is your sushi? More and more, it’s safe to assume your fish is polluted. The data coming in from a smartly conceived project called “Got Mercury?” from the non-profit watchdog group Turtle Island Restoration Network indicates that high-end restaurants in major US markets are serving tainted fish. The group is running a […]

I choose to interpret this data as suggesting that while large changes in IQ may have practically significant effects on academic performance, a change in 3 IQ points certainly does not. This gets to my point. What makes me nuts about studies like this is that they confuse statistical significance with practical significance. Statistically, 3 […]

i love this idea: We let you loan to the working poor Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of […]

Call Me Fishmeal.: iPhone’s AJAX SDK: No, thank you. Seed: Loopy Logic: Moebius Strip Riddle Solved at Last Why the disappearance of the honeybees isn’t the end of the world. – By Heather Smith – Slate Magazine Stranger Fruit: Manta birth caught on video The Science of Gaydar – New Research on Everything From Voice […]

it’s true: you can get, easily, a pirated copy of the new harry potter book. as was pointed out over at boing-boing, it’s amazing the lengths media companies will go to in order to prevent these sorts of leaks from happening, and it’s incredible how they never work. you can’t keep information secret anymore: the […]

yesterday i got trog back from the wonderful people who took him while i was to be in new zealand. i missed him soooo much, and it’s nice to have him back. i can’t believe how much he’s matured in the year he’s been gone!

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Screw that, it’s been tried already, that’s what the “brights” movement was about. It (mostly) failed because of attitudes like mine. I’m not a bright, I’m an atheist, damn it. I’m proud to be an atheist, I’m proud that I’ve been able to resist the natural human tendency of leaning on supernatural explanations where the […]

British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the area to sow panic. BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | British blamed for Basra badgers Technorati Tags: badger, badgerbadger, […]

A Russian hunter traipsing through Russia’s remote Arctic Yamalo-Nenetsk region in May noticed what he thought was a reindeer carcass sticking out of the damp snow. On closer inspection, the “reindeer” turned out to be a 40,000-year-old baby mammoth, perfectly encased in ice. The six-month-old female mammoth is the most well-preserved example yet found of […]