October 2, 2008 – 12:11 pm
When being below average is a sign of exceptional talent. Well worth a read, no baseball knowledge required. HT: DF
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There’s a new movie just starting to do the rounds called ‘Expelled’. It’s a stunning behind-the-scenes expose of how scientists are essentially nazis who think good Christian folk are intellectually no better than shaved monkeys. It’s possible I may have over-simplified a little there, but not by much. It features science luminaries such as Richard [...]
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January 28, 2008 – 7:26 am
Via Neatorama, here’s a summary of the five scariest bugs in the world. I can’t encourage you to watch the videos, because I couldn’t get to the end of any of them: It’s the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison. We really wish we were making that up for, you know, [...]
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December 3, 2007 – 9:49 am
Joe Kittinger holds the record for the highest parachute jump*. In 1960 he ascended to 103,800 feet under a balloon before jumping, in the process also setting the record for highest balloon ascent. I was watching a documentary that mentioned this, and highlighted a factoid that hadn’t occurred to me before. Kittinger was so high [...]
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September 27, 2007 – 8:28 am
I’ve seen a couple of documentaries recently that mention Ocean Sunfish, seriously huge fish prone to parasitic infection. They deal with this by going to special cleaning stations where smaller fish pick the parasites off. So ordered is this behaviour that the sunfish line up and wait their turn for a cleaning. As impressive as [...]
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