So…what happened to Cheshire?

So…if you’ve been following this blog, you’ve probably noticed a distinct lack of posts. I wrote about this two posts ago, but I figured I’d share some details. For the past year, I’ve been trying to get into a graduate school. My grades are excellent-I’m one of the top in my class…it’s been a solid [...]

My Review of Alice in Wonderland

I went to see Alice in Wonderland last night, and although I liked the movie I kind of felt underwhelmed. More below the fold.

Do bats REALLY eat mosquitoes?

One of the debates a lot of entomologists have is whether bats actually have an impact on mosquito populations. Sure, we hear all the time that bats eat mosquitoes, but there are good reasons to doubt this. I’ve had this discussion with instructors before and there’s really no consensus. We know bats occasionally eat mosquitoes. [...]

Doctor Who: The End of Time

I’m a fan of the new Doctor Who Series. Unfortunately, BBC makes it’s content very difficult for us Americans to get. Fortunately, it’s not completely impossible; I have my ways. Spoilers below the fold.

LOL…you’re so cute. :)

So y’all are familiar with the New-Age movement where any old bullshit is accepted and respected as a religion, right? Well, some of these loonies think the world’s going to end in 2012 based only on the misinterpretation of a Mayan Calandar. Okay…so there’s a Facebook Group called ‘Shut Up, The World Won’t End in [...]

Loxoceles reclusa 101

Last week, I made a post about a species of spider whose ecological niche is basically your garage. This species is what is known as a synanthropic species…a kind of animal who is very closely allied with people in terms of where it lives. The particular spider I discussed had venom similar to a species [...]

Natural Selection Parallels Artificial Selection in Fighting Crickets

If you’ve ever found big, black crickets in your backyard you’ve seen something from the genus Gryllus. They’re the guys you probably see in your garage during the summer looking for shelter and chirping in your backyard during those warm, lazy nights. They’re pretty ubiquitous and generally pretty recognizable. Crickets chirp to attract mates using [...]

Science Journalism and Blogging

So I haven’t been on the blogosphere for too long, but my weblog is just starting to get some decent traffic (mostly as a result of the researchblogging posts I try to do about once a week or so) and I’m just becoming aware of some of the conflicts that take place regularly on the [...]

If only Chuck was as intellectual as he thought he was…

So who didn’t love Walker, Texas Ranger when they were ten? I sure as hell did…no point in lying about it. But as you grow up, these things lose much of their appeal. When I was in high school and middle school, you were cool if you listened to the Offspring. Nowadays, they’re like a [...]

And once again, we have an idiot unable to understand Athiests

Ray Comfort laments about how Athiests don’t have their own music. I was listening to the Hallelujah Chorus of Handel’s Messiah recently and thinking about what atheists have as an equivalent. An equivalent? They don’t have a Bible, they don’t belong to a Church, they don’t have a relationship with God, and they don’t have [...]