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.

So I really want to be green, mercy yes, save the ecology and all, offset my carbon emissions. And I’m really anti-GM. Playing God, y’know, and besides it makes Indian farmers commit suicide and kills rats, right? So, how do I deal with this news?

Money paid by green consumers to offset thei...

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