Now that the door is opened to contemplating rotating cats, I think we should look at organisms that are even better at the spinning routine.
(Also on FtB)
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Sometimes, when I take a step back and look at the ways that we can manipulate life, I'm astounded. We can breed mice that lack any gene we want. We can also insert new genes, and have them only express in certain types of cells or only at certain times. This is routine. We can make design viruses…
At lunch Friday, I was talking to a few colleagues about how smart our pets can be. I haven't done gratuitous dog-blogging in a while, and it's been a long week, so here are some of the more impressive of our Emmy's intellectual achievements:
She's managed to learn two or three English phrases…
Holy crap. A Dutch social scientist's career has just crashed flamingly. He apparently had a tremendous reputation.
"Somebody used the word 'wunderkind'," says Miles Hewstone, a social psychologist at the University of Oxford, UK. "He was one of the bright thrusting young stars of Dutch social…
Review the unpleasant nature of the cat's penis. Now contemplate this: "12 feet long and highly mobile" and "gigantic testes that weigh a ton".
Although, I do confess, when a pod of these big boys go into rut in your back yard, you'll probably get even less sleep than when the neighborhood cats…