Unexpected Good News On The Cuttlefish Front
I have written before with bad news from Point Lowly, Spencer Gulf, in South Australia. That was from 2011; in 2012 the news was even worse, and last year things looked grim indeed. Unexpectedly, this...
View ArticleTornado Warnings, Now And Then
It was just the other morning When we heard the weather warning And we tried to drag the pets downstairs, for shelter from the storm I remembered, with a chortle, I was young once, and immortal, And...
View Article“It’s Nature’s Law–You Know, Like On Noah’s Ark”
Since the dawn of the world Humanities men mated with women, and women with men… it’s the way of nature. No mention of gay couples surviving the floods on Noah’s Ark, they were left to swim. That’s...
View ArticleBatty Bats!
So the cuttledog and I were walking, just a bit ago, and there were bats! There used to be bats aplenty, every evening walk we took, but then the white-nose fungus hit. The bats disappeared. I’ve seen...
View ArticleThe Plural Of Walrus
For Scicurious (still and always, the best ‘nym ever for a science writer) The walruses were gathered, Tens of K of walri strong With their floes unfroze, the walrae Joined a huge walrorum throng...
View ArticleBad Creationism: The Argument From X-Men
There’s a movie (science fiction) And it holds a contradiction To the theory (that’s a “hunch”) of evolution See, the mutants (they’re the heroes) Should, by rights, be less-than-zeroes Since mutation...
View ArticleI Envy This Guy His Next Few Years…
My aggregator threw yet another ignorant anti-atheist screed at me recently; all the same tired arguments that have been addressed many times before: Some atheists will not even know they have to use a...
View Article“If Evolution Is True, Where Are The Unfit Animals?”
Where are the mutants? The losers? The freaks? Intermediate forms, half-completed? “Selected against”, as biology speaks, The ones whom the “fit” ones defeated? There ought to be millions, just wasting...
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Gotta Be A Metaphor For Something…
It has not been a big summer (or spring) for butterflies in Cuttletown, so this was the first Tiger Swallowtail I had seen thus far. It wasn’t skittish at all as I approached, as they so often are, so...
View ArticleBPCPL
(that is, Bee Pee Sepielle) By request by Daniel Midgley (wait, *that* Daniel Midgley? Apparently so), a verse about… well, about a rather remarkable photograph. (please do follow the link–I would love...
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