Went for a walk in the park this morning tooled up with a trowel. I’d seen some likely looking bay laurel seedlings on previous recce trips, and with last night’s rain thought that the ground would be reasonably soft. It was. Snagged five little seedlings then headed down the hill to the nearest nur...

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Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks

How I wish I’d been among the subs when that story came in.

Those spambots never sleep. My colleague in arms Luigi wrote a very nice blog post over at the other place about the genetic patterns among domestic cats the world over. Naturally he entitled it "Pussy galore". Just for a laugh, you understand. But I don't think either of us was fully prepared for...

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Language Log recently opened up comments on a post about the origins of a girl's name. One of the commenters wrote:

Comments are great. I also vote that you get Captcha/reCaptcha, because without comments a blog is...nothing.

How wrong can you be? On a blog with a smallish readership, I a...

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Classic, classic comeback from Neil Shubin to Stephen Colbert's question about why biologists want to believe we're descended from fish. Watch the whole video here.