Terrapin Procrastination

In response to this article:  http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/24/marines-to-kill-desert-tortoises/ and the ensuing discussion her...

Gopherus evgoodei , FFS http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6124

Totally for real this time. This here article , facebook'd to me by Chris Clarke, is pretty cool. Marshalling new and old genetic evide...

1 tall glass, ice V-8 Frank's Hot Sauce, too much shot of Evan Williams bourbon top off with last 2/3 can of Rolling Rock, now warmi...

  ...than not see whatever they're eating.

this here >

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Cdr. Charles "Trip" Tucker III is a chimera-character. I'm prety sure he's designed to combine the homespun Southern charm...

I just learned that Dick Cheney received a heart transplant a few weeks ago. They say he had suffered "at least five" heart attac...

Hoshi is the nerd's Mary Ann to T'Pol's nerd's Ginger. UPDATE 4/30/2012: bwa-ha !!! 2004!

Here's the list . All the usual suspects you'd usually suspect, but I smiled to see many of my favorites: Steinbeck HST John M...

Ring around the rosie,  a pocketful of posie. Ashes. Ashes. We all fall down.

Absoluely  critical moment: Season 2, Ep. 1: Amok Time @ ~20.00: Kirk [of Spock, to McCoy; and defying direct Starfleet orders]: I owe hi...

via Chris Clarke

...or Deuterostomes, or Lophotrochozoans, or whatever. [the point being, y'see, the completely arbitrary whim by which "animals&q...

yeah, I just saw this for the first time the other day. Sue me.

...unless you, you know, didn't. Idea for a new social media platform: combine Blogger and Twitter. People can issue 'bleats'...

According to Bob Murphy et al. the desert tortoise ought to be split into at least two species, called Gopherus agassizi (California/Neva...

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Calvin, Hobbes, and Bacon (sweet) CAL v.1n (not)

because at the moment  I am digging Reese and the Smooth Ones (1969), Lester Bowie:

UPDATE: oh dear. Google Earth has updated to the post-landrape landscape. Well, rest assured that both photos now (4/21/2012) show early st...

A six-word open letter to the environmental movement .

Any advice, Jer?

I will stipulate the almost incredibly passive-aggresive nature of this post. have a nice day

So that's two years, 175.76 subThreads, 135,539 comments. Year Two alone accounted for 144.76 of the subThreads and 107,490 of the com...

Really? man, am I loath to re-enter this conversation, but

for SC Hemiphractus fasciatus via Jerry Coyne Kermit the Frog via Jim Henson

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White Christmas (1942) Green Christmas (1958) Blue Xmas (1962) Black Christmas (1974) Yellow Christmas (1986) (Charlie) Brown...

Laura Cunningham photo. If enough people write letters in the next few days, it seems there is a chance to stop the TopKill of a big chun...

I used to know this place really well*. Read it and weep. I did. *I spent a good part of three years just below the first 'e' o...

Biology is always more complex than you think.