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Tag: what we need more of is science

Drunken Monkeys

No, not Jet Li or Jackie Chan. These guys:

A Special Introduction to a Special Introduction

Because I get weird compulsions sometimes, I have gone through Ray Comfort’s “Special Introduction” to the free copies of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” that are being distributed for free by evangelical Christian groups on university campuses around the world.

Lying for Jesus

Free-book receiver beware: that free copy of Origin of Species is practically a Chick tract.

Stemming the Tide of HIV

I’m becoming rather attached to these 6pm news-style pun titles. I don’t want to bore you with details I clearly understand very well and much better than you do, but here is the abstract of this research article. These clever folk at UCLA have done-it-in-mice (which is a verb in my mind) of engineering stem [...]

What’s got two wings and a corkscrew penis? This guy!

A fascinating article about sexual-conflict evolution in ducks.