h/t: The Huffington Post
Monthly Archives: October 2014
EVOLUTION: “‘Murdersquishing’ Them To Death: How Little Bees Take On Enormous Hornets” / NPR / Robert Krulwich
Japanese giant hornets have large yellow heads, enormous eyes, and they eat bees. “Eat” is too polite. They grab European honeybees, rip off their heads, tear off limbs, throw those parts away and take the big, juicy middle piece (the thorax) back to their kids (the larvae). They are unstoppable. A single hornet, you are about to learn, can kill 40 European honeybees a minute.
European bees, being new to Japan (brought in by cultivators), have evolved no defenses. They haven’t had time. But there’s a second group of bees — the locals, the Japanesehoneybees — who have found a way. It’s precise, orchestral and deadly.
h/t: Read more . . .
PANTHEISM: “Man is the Most Insane Species” / Hubert Reeves, Astrophysicist
h/t: Tamiem FreeThinker
wiki: Hubert Reeves
must read wiki: Pantheism
REASON: “One of the Saddest Lessons of History” / Carl Sagan
h/t: We Fucking Love Atheism
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
COMEDY: “Tomorrow” / Zach Galifianakis
SIN: “The Solution to a Nonexistent Problem” / Dan Barker
h/t: The Atheist Agenda
BOOKS: “A Better Perspective”
RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE: “Sam Harris and Cenk Uygur Clear the Air on Religious Violence and Islam ” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur
MORMONISM: “Mormons Defend Their ‘Magic Underwear'” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski