- An evolutionary explanation for sexual smell differences – Women more easily pick up on body odors masked by other fragrances, and “researchers suspect that mammalian olfactory systems actually evolved to detect chemical traces of genetic incompatibility in the odors of potential mates.” From Dave.
- Ungodly typo – BYU’s student newspaper makes a small error. From Croobie.
- Twilight fans stab, choke, and beat haters into submission – Who knows how much of this is real but I couldn’t not share this. From Briarking.
- Can science be used to prove the existence of God? – “The quantum physicist turned Anglican priest John Polkinghorne discusses invisible superbeings, resurrection and how humans would shrivel up if they ever saw God.” From Question Authority.
- This first Cute Animal is dedicated to the TreeLobsters. And to continue with a watery theme- baby seahorses (looks like Pa’s got some stretch marks). This Saturday is Firefly Day so get out there and look for blinky-butted bugs.
I really hope someone makes a bunch of lolcats out of the blind furry lobster.
Did you skepchicks learn nothing? Now you are going to cause the Twitards to descend again, and the rest of us will be forced to defend you from the raging masses of teen girls with no sexual outlet!
I am not sure I am up to the task, but I will fire the first shot.
Troy Bolton from High School Musical is way hotter than Edward Cullen, and he is not a stalky, creepy psychopath that glitters in the sun like a bad Bowie impersonator!
Meeting God: like dude parts out for a cold swim.
@Eliza: COTW. I was thinking the same thing but you stated it much more eloquently.
@Eliza:
I’ll second that nom!
@Amanda: And I third that nomination!
You forgot a crucial “quickie:” http://mully410.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-birthday-to-me.html
I’m gonna have to call bullshit on the twilight beat down. Have you seen the average twilight fan? A bunch of overweight or underweight tweens and their sad loser mothers. Not exactly the most dangerous bunch in the world. Now you might get a brain embolism laughing at them but that is hardly the same as suffering a beat down.
I don’t get the typo story. They mispelled a word in a college newspaper. Why is this skeptical news?
I just read an excerpt from Victor Stenger’s “God: The Failed Hypothesis” that make a very compelling argument for the idea that science can prove the NON-existence of God. I’ll be going out to buy the book today to find out.
@Gabrielbrawley: “A bunch of overweight or underweight tweens and their sad loser mothers.” That was kind of not nice.
@Bevans: I think it’s the overreaction “OMG PULL TIHS NOOOOW”.
not kind, but as a fat girl who had a vampire thing in high school, probably true.
In all my bad vampire fan fic being bitten made me, I mean the character lose weight! Now that movie would sell.
So, if an ordinary Twilight fan is a Twilighter and a truly fan-atical one is a Twihard, the website for posting and disseminating brief messages about their daily activities would be. . . Twitter?
If anymore theologians are allowed within distance of a particle physics textbook without checking some serious baggage at the door I will be forced to chew through the restraints, eat the bark off the tree I was tied to, and vanish in the woods, emerging only to bean Ray Comfort with stones and violate the Pope.