December 2010
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Remarkably, we are even quite closely related to fruit and vegetables. About...
– Bill Bryson, ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’
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Boned.
I have a little over a week to come up with enough presentable work that can fill 33-feet of wall space.
Oops.
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O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us,
To see oursels as others see us.
– Robert Burns, ‘To A Louse’, 1786
A sentiment that never fails to kick my consciousness in the ass.
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A pretty shitty delayed flight home...
…and now my frigging ears won’t pop.
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Bile of the science-minded
So. Another few years, another research poll.
40% of the population of the U.S. presently believes that evolution does not and has not taken place in the past, and that all living things are the construct of a god, end of story.
Only 16% of people believe that biological diversity is explained by evolution.
The remainder believe something between the two.
There are times when part of me, the...
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I appear to have acquired 200 followers. Hosanna’s all round, right???
This news comes to me as I struggle through work with a hangover listening to Mississippi Fred McDowell records.
Thanks, guys.
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