A new dinosaur from the pachycephalosaur family has been announced, named Dracorex hogwartia in honour of the Harry Potter books. This led to the following IM conversation:
Me: There’s a new dinosaur called Dracorex hogwartia
Wife: Interesting – has it always had that name?
Me: No, I think its mates called it Jeff
While reading an article on the Beeb about “clear evidence of climate change caused by human activities”, I had one of my rare thoughts. The article says:
The report, from the federal Climate Change Science Program, said trends seen over the last 50 years “cannot be explained by natural processes alone”.
Now the Design Institute (no link, we don’t want to encourage them) claims that the inherent complexity of life can’t be explained by chance, hence God. If that’s true (clue: it isn’t, but let’s go with it for a moment) then a statement like the above proves that we are messing up the climate; if we can’t explain it, then God.
Or in this case, us.
Just to show that little boys are natural scientists:
The scientists’ hunch that the ants’ movements, not their body shapes, chiefly dictated their gliding paths was confirmed when they started chopping off appendages to see if the insects could still soar.