As I have recently shown you all, Spring is here in full force in North Carolina.
I love it more than almost anything, but there are two weeks of Spring that are quite hellish for me.  You see, I am incredibly allergic to Oak pollen (most species but not all).
This fact has lead to a tragic [...]

Oh yes, woolly we be. Check out the latest update on our celebratory Darwin beard contest over at Southern Fried Science.
Great Darwin Beard Challenge History:

The Origin: Deep Sea News, Southern Fried Science, Biochemical Soul
Week 1: Biochemical Soul, Deep Sea News
Week 2: Southern Fried Science – Hats

Week 3: Biochemical Soul – Hardcore

Week 4: Biochemical Soul – The [...]

Here’s a good laugh for your monday: a redneck child (me) in Hooks, Texas. Yes – we ate them squirrels.
While I somehow managed to escape true redneckdom, I still have very strong “country boy” roots. Mitch still remains fairly redneck. Sorry bro, you know it’s true (though he has outgrown some of it in the [...]

Alright, so Kevin at Deep-Sea News got a little busy this past week “laying down the hardwood.” He claims this involved flooring installation…
Thus I have taken on the reigns of presenting this week’s Great Darwin Beard Challenge images.
For those of you new here (and I know there are several due to my Science Blogging: The [...]

Stripped of all biologically advantageous or meaningful body hair, there comes a time in every man’s life when he ponders just why the eons of molding, shaping, and changing forces of natural selection have left what little remains.
The answer comes, quite naturally, to all who discover that certain magical stage of hirsute facial existence. There [...]

The above image arrived in my email inbox last night from the preeminent coral reef expert and blogger extraordinaire Rick MacPherson of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice & Sunsets.
The subject line simply read “I’m just sayin…”
The pun came from his recent Carnival of the Blue #22 in which he wrote of my post on Flatfish Eyes [...]

This week’s installment of the Great Darwin Beard Challenge is live over at Southern Fried Science. We are in week two now, our sandpaper faces replaced by millimeter stubble.
It seems a long way from here to our bushy-bearded Darwinian goals. The “contest” will end on October 1st, the 150th anniversary of the inside cover date [...]

In the past month… (top 6 in entertainment value)
“im a man in panties”
“Sarah Palin is a idoit”
“end of human race dna replication”
“truckpulling black widow”
“preparing for world war iii”
“i’m not even sure we exist same level of consciousness”
I have no idea how most of those came to me.
Really…

This comic is a bit old, but it’s just so (agelessly) pertinent right now.

This has probably been around a while. I’ve had this sitting on my hard drive for ages.  But given my earlier post on Sarah Palin’s utter ignorance of Science and this quote about Sarah Palin from Philip Munger on Salon.com…
“I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old [...]

Do you suffer from premature ejaculation (or more accurately does your wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, hookup, or porn film director suffer from your problem)?
If so, you can probably blame your parents, or their parents, or their parents… you get the picture – it seems to be genetic.
For an entertaining rundown of this current bit of fascinating [...]

Thanks to PZ Myers at Pharyngula for finding this one.  I post it here for the simple fact that this is side-splittingly hilarious! Go get your giggles on.
Excerpt:
Malwin dismissed critics who claimed that smashing animals together at high speeds was cruel to the animals. He said, “The animals won’t be feeling anything. The collision will [...]

Yes this one is in fact a true story (despite my previous fictional bus story). I’m not clever enough to make this up.
So I’m taking the bus home to my car yesterday. The bus stops where I get off and I’m the only one to exit. As I’m walking toward the rear of the bus [...]

I just had an immensely weird and mildly amusing experience, and I thought I’d share it.
I was just outside the lab sitting under this short tree. I was kneeling down leaning against the tree. There was a chipmunk (Alfonzo – I’ve seen him about once a day for two years) digging for nuts and whatnot [...]

It has finally hit you that the End Times are approaching. Good for you. Acceptance is the first step in surviving the tortuous existence about to come. For those of you that shudder at the mere thought of losing digital cable, broadband internet, and Spongebob Squarepants action figures, I have compiled this brief list of [...]