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What Would Darwin Do? Killing Goats So Others May LivePhoto courtesy of Lind Xu Why are environmentalists shooting goats? Why have they undertaken an elaborate plan to systematically kill hundreds of thousands of goats by means of aerial and ground hunting operations? Why to preserve life, of course. Project Isabela: Eradicating Goats in th... |
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Founder of a Great DivideAlfred Russel Wallace was a self-taught naturalist who is best known for developing a theory of evolutionary origin at about the same time Charles Darwin was putting the finishing touches... ... |
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Guess who the first leader of the Soviet Union was [Pharyngula]The conventional wisdom is that it was Vladimir Lenin, but officers in our military have access to secret knowledge, thanks to Rick Warren: it was actually Charles Darwin. We learn this from one of those ghastly power point presentations the military churns up, this one from Air Force Chaplain Ch... |
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![Attack of the killer mice - introduced rodents eat seabird chicks alive [Not Exactly Rocket Science]](http://statics.keegy.com//img/postsh/24/85/th2-attack-of-the-killer-mice-introduced-rodents-eat-seabird-chicks-alive-not-exactly-rocket-science.jpg)
Attack of the killer mice - introduced rodents eat seabird chicks alive [Not Exactly Rocket Science]As Charles Darwin learned several centuries ago, islands are havens for evolution. Newcomers to these isolated worlds find themselves unshackled from the predators that dogged them on the mainland. They celebrate their freedom by diversifying into a great variety of species. But predators sti... |
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Papercraft ScientistsMake your own cute little papercraft models of Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, and Charles Darwin! Download pdf files in color, print them out and fold them up. Then maybe you can keep one on your desk for inspiration. I love Einstein sticking his tongue out! Link -Thanks, Atila! ... |
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149 years ago today [Laelaps]149 years ago today, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection briefly appeared on shelves. I say "briefly" because it sold out immediately. For a "secret" formulation of a mechanism by which evolution could occur, there certainly was a lot of... |
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