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A deep sea squid’s parting money shot to the world

Let me preface this story with a brief, humble note to the hard-working field researchers, front-line colonialists of knowledge, impaling the flag of how-the-fuck-does-that-work in the warm, beating...

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Circus of the Spineless

That monthly feast of invertebration known as Circus of the Spineless has been served Augustly over at Birder’s Lounge. And what a meal it is, if you like picking exoskeleton out from between your...

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Two owlets, one iphone

Download: owlets.mp3 [mp3 here if the player above doesn't play] Recorded the night of August 12th, as I stepped out back to catch what I could of the Perseids. Yes, six-and-one-half minutes of...

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You make Bunny cry!

Sheril Kirshenbaum at the Intersection Blog alerts us to an article that appeared in Spiegel Online last October about the mad synergy in Sweden of urban pest control and peak oil: Bunnies for BTU. The...

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I’m so horny the Kraken Rum better be careful around me.*

Succumbed, for obvious reasons. Inky dark.But I never drink rum. Like, NEVER. Not out of any distaste, but instead because of a slavish devotion to gin that sucks the oxygen out of any other drink...

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Carny of the Spineless rolls in (on a trail of slime)

Like the best of deviant affairs, it pulls in to town in the deep of night, not to mention behind schedule. Buzz on the midway is that the circus manager’s son was busted for running a meth lab and...

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Peripatus: nature’s walking money shot.

My latest crush, er, squish.I blame the Davids. Winter, for first opening my world to the wonder of the walking worm. And Attenborough, for narrating the video I can not stop watching. Peripatus, the...

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What about Porn Star?

I recently received an email notice about a new cephalopodtastic children’s book. Perhaps I’d like to view a preview pdf? I was coyly asked. Most certainly! I vigorously replied. Here you go, I was...

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The binary fallacy of evolutionary sexual preference

Everywhere!To make an obvious, self-evident, and specious observation: If homophobia has an adaptive evolutionary benefit, then it certainly hasn’t been successful. I mean, teh gays, they’re still...

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Come up and taxiderm me some time

I took a taxidermy class. You’d think I might have been able to find one closer to home, being hunting & fishing country up here in the wooly wilds. Where the general store doubles as deer...

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