Link: Brewing Beer on the Moon
Students at UC San Diego are trying to solve a really serious problem.
(Because of the way this theme works, you need to go to the actual post to get the link. At some point I’ll try to figure out how to change that.)
Students at UC San Diego are trying to solve a really serious problem.
(Because of the way this theme works, you need to go to the actual post to get the link. At some point I’ll try to figure out how to change that.)
Not according to Steve Matheson of Quintessence of Dust, who did some empirical research on the matter!
In an article on MSNBC’s Cosmic Log, titled How Politeness Evolved, I find the following quote: “It is far from obvious how turn-taking evolved without language or insight in animals shaped by natural selection to pursue their individual self-interests,” University of Leicester psychologist Andrew Colman said last week in a news release about the research….
This video from AIG Busted is informative, humorous, and quite sarcastic. Hat Tip: Exploring Our Matrix.
Charles Jones has a post a Power of Suggestion in which he notes the following: But evolution cant allow things, because its unguided. And it cant make any mistakes, because it makes no decisions. Take note: whenever people try to explain how something happens through evolution, they always resort to the language of design. Now…
With a hat tip to Jacob Cerone. I nearly died laughing.
They were obviously there before, but they’re more important because we know about them. I do love this sort of discovery. (See Greg Laden’s Blog for more.)