Wow.

@RoryStewartUK's parliamentary speech.

Linking now with the past.

Science vs privilege.

In case you were wondering.

Cthulhu fthagn!

Because it loves you.

Actually they do.

In case you were wondering.

Hooray!

Refreshing the mind.

What's your gut feeling?

This is how bad it has got.

Probably not.

Wonders of digestion!

For my Colombian friend.

From the Veluwe to West Africa and back.

Glorious.

The answer lies in neurogenesis. (It says here.)

According to Bill Gates, humans are in second place.

"Like elephants, manatees and dugongs, male hyraxes lack a scrotum."

"The short answer is that it tasted good."

Fascinating genomic research.

Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!

...in South Africa.

What set us apart from the apes.

Of course, this is only stating that 70% of British men and 50% of European men have a common direct male ancestor with Tutankhamun in the last 9500 years. In fact taking all lineages into account we are probably all descended from any of his close relatives who have any living descendants at all. (King Tut himself is believed to have outlived bot…

SPIEGEL: So the Human Genome Project has had very little medical benefits so far? Venter: Close to zero to put it precisely. SPIEGEL: You stored a code in the genome of this cell. Has anyone decoded it? Venter: Yes, it is the first genome in the world to include an e-mail address. So far, 50 scientists have cracked the code and answered us. SPIEGE…