There really is only one response to this story about Sarah Palin trying to get Polar Bears’ endangered species status declassified…
Category Archives: false killer whales
I salute our new cetacean overlords
If they can learn this after a bit of time in captivity, imagine what might have happened if someone had inadvertantly told them about our system of commerce? With the credit crunch being what it is, they’d have control of the economy within weeks!
UPDATE: Okay, so not all cetaceans are clever. Geez! And to think these bozos are meant to save our asses in the future.
Come And Get Your Hot Free Willy Action Here!
One of the most boring staples of the blogosphere is bloggers banging on about the bizarre Google searches people find their websites via. Normally I eschew such cliche you understand, but I will make an exception in this case:
woman beating up a Giant Orange Whale
One is to infer this is a reference to chewing gum. The mind boggles.
Science: not to be sniffed at
What’s the bloody use in a mouse that can catch a cold? Why don’t scientists do something more useful, or at least more ironic, such as engineering a mouse that can catch a cat?
Media confusion between “parenthood” and “lunch”
I often lick and bite ice cream, that doesn’t make it my mother figure.
What about the Scottish Rabbit Protection League?
If you thought Tony Blair’s cameo on the Simpsons was bad…
…check out his guest slot on George Bush’s dog Barney’s Christmas video in which he manages to not only look deferential to a miniature dog but even comes up with some excrutiating dialogue about how they’re both Scotties. I’m only comforted that they decided to cut to another scene before Blair got a chance to proffer his balls to Barney to lick. It’s for kids Tony – show some decency!
It’s one thing to be a poodle to a halfwit. It’s quite another to be a poodle to a halfwit’s poodle. Suddenly Gordon Brown doesn’t look quite so bad after all.
EXCLUSIVE: The shortlist for the next leader of the Liberal Democrats
They probably wouldn’t be very good at giving speeches, but they’re soooo cute; who could resist voting for them and their widdle nosey-woses?
It’s sex, Jim, but not as we know it
I, for one, welcome our new asexual overlords…
Humans and most other types of organism reproduce sexually. The union of sperm and eggs results in two copies (or a pair) of genetic instructions within a cell, one copy inherited from each parent.
This produces two nearly identical copies of each gene in each cell, and therefore two nearly identical proteins.
The “re-shuffling” of genetic material over many generations allows sexual animals to adapt to changes in their natural environment.
In contrast, many asexual organisms have died out because their rigid genetic make-up means they are unable to adapt in this way.
The latest discovery explains why the bdelloids have likely escaped this fate with their mechanism for generating genetic diversity in the absence of sexual reproduction.
Clever corvidae
I, for one, welcome our new black feathered overlords.
Do bears poop in Berlin?
The answer would appear to be, not always. Apologies for another poo related story, but it appears that Berlin Zoo’s Panda has died of heart failure caused by acute constipation. But there is speculation of a cute other cause (geddit? GEDDIT?!).