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BATHE IN THE IDIOCY

I’d like to point out to Duane Kimme, in his Dec. 20 letter to the editor, that every statement he made was false. Natural selection cannot select for what does not already exist in the genome, making it an elimination of the weakest and not a creator of additional information.
No new biological system can have […]

RADIO: CLIMATE AND FOOD PRODUCTION

Recommended listening, if you live on Earth. (It’s about half an hour long.)

You can’t see it and you can’t feel it, but ozone, one of the greenhouse gases associated with climate change, is causing a decrease of 20% to the soya crop in the United States of America.
Soya is the second biggest crop in the […]

PHOSPHORESCENT FOOD

“We don’t hear a lot of complaints about glowing seafood, but then people rarely look at their shrimp and crab in the dark.”
—Andy Richards, seafood department manager, West Seattle Thriftway
Bonus: 1998 FDA article on glowing seafood

GO WILD

Build Your Wild Self (New York Zoos and Aquarium, via MeFi)

ILLINOISANS: HELP TRACK FERAL BEES

“We don’t know what is going on with pollinators because America has never deemed it important enough to try to keep track of its pollination resources,” Berenbaum said.
“Given that 90 crops in the U.S. agricultural sector depend on a single species of pollinator, and other crops depend on other pollinators, it would seem that for […]

HOW TO DEAL WITH AMERICAN SQUIRRELS

Redesdale, too, has planted his standard on behalf of the red army. Last year, with a grant of £148,000 from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, he founded an organization called the Red Squirrel Protection Partnership. The work of Redesdale’s organization is different from that of S.O.S. It shoots, or traps and then […]

MALE PREGNANCY

Compared to the feats of, say, IVF, or the birth-control pill, or bone-marrow transplantation, the challenges of a male pregnancy seem trivial.
But when you throw gender in a blender, people freak out. This leads me to believe, as Patrick hypothesizes, that the first cases of male pregnancy, whenever they are, will arise out of dire […]

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Girl could give birth to her sister

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Crustaceans eating away island off Hiroshima