Crazy elephant shrew! This new and bizarre mammal species was discovered in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. This region is well known for its wealth of biodiversity. Biodiversity is science speak for weird shit.
I don’t think he would make an “OM NOM NOM NOM” noise so much as a “SLURP SLURP SLURP.”
This amazing young man is a 19 year-old secondary school student and self-taught engineer who has provided wind-powered electricity and light to his village since the age of 15. His story and success are truly inspiring and well worth the read.
Trina and I went to the Seattle Aquarium this afternoon, both having a delight in the cavorting of all creatures cute or strange. The otters and seals delivered the cute, especially during feeding time, but the most impressive denizens we enjoyed were the two giant Pacific octopi. They were not allowed in the same tank [...]
The BBC reported on the predictions of young, hotshot evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry with nary an admonishment or rebuttal of his horribly racist and classist assumptions. I suppose I should not be so enraged by “science” produced for a men’s television channel in Britain; rather I take issue with the BBC carrying to the extreme [...]