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April 25th, 2008
 | 12:09 pm
News for the day:
After Near Extinction, Humans Split Into Isolated Bands
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080424-humans-extinct.html
About 150,000 years ago, humankind split into small groups—living apart for a hundred thousand years before "reuniting" and migrating out of Africa, a new gene study says.
The Future of Sports
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080425-space-station-sports.html
Astronauts, by necessity, work hard in space. But during their precious time off aboard the International Space Station (ISS), some spaceflyers are picking their brains to come up with the future of space sports.
I started to watch Caligula, the one with Malcolm McDowell, and realized I was no where near stoned enough. Have you seen this? I'm definitely sitting down next weekend and watching it.
Brand names 'as old as civilisation itself'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml;jsessionid=0LECYUVDXYG0NQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/earth/2008/04/23/scibrand123.xml&site=30&page=0
Bottle stops used five millennia ago in ancient Mesopotamia (today's Iraq), the birthplace of cities and writing, carried symbols that marked them out as the earliest evidence of branded goods.
nite nite
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April 18th, 2006
| 09:53 pm
This is why I despise religion:
Taken from endcreationism
Focus on the Family's children's site "Clubhouse Magazine" indoctrinates children against evolution with the most stupid, ignorant arguments imaginable:
"Q. Hi, Average Boy!
I need some advice on evolution. Everyone is talking about it, and I just don't understand why people think we came from monkey people. I hope you can answer my wonders.
Bye,
Parker D.
A. Hey, Parker.
Great question! I've actually had people tell me that it looks like I may have come from a monkey family. However, if evolution did work, wouldn't my ears be smaller by now?
Animals do adapt to their surroundings. For instance, my cat has developed a nervous twitch that lets him know when Billy walks in the room. That's a survival adaptation. But the main evolution chart that most scientists go by was actually made up. The guy who presented all the facts threw in an extra step — that hasn't even been discovered — to link men to apes.
Not to mention, if monkeys evolved into men then why do we still have monkeys? Wouldn't they be men, too? That's a good question to ask your friends the next time you are talking about evolution. Now if you will excuse me, I want to finish my banana.
Your friend and mine,
Average Boy"
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April 15th, 2006
| 02:47 am
How far and to where can you trace your ancestry? Not just vague "Mom says we're from Sweden," but actual lists of names, places, and approximate birth and death dates. My family got as far as South Carolina in the early 1800s. My mom says her side of the family is French, Irish, and English. Not nearly as cool as I'd have hoped, but at least I've got some Germanic blood, assuming the English really is English, and not just someone who lived in England, which is probably the case. I can pretend one of my ancestors was Boric, King of the tribe of the Reindeer who lived near the mouth of the Danube in 936 BC. Or I could just totally make up something like Oprah and claim he was a Zulu.
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