Alder Borer
Saw this beautiful alder borer, flying around…. Harmless to living trees, and prized by insect collectors who would buy them live.
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
The Psychology of Lines
The longer that people are forced to wait in line, the longer that they want to stay at the table of a restaurant or even buffet-like establishment…. Admittedly, I do so consciously – if I have to wait an hour and a half for a table at somewhere like PF Chang’s, you damn well better be sure that I’m not going to move my ass when the server try his “do-you-need-dessert” annoyance tactics.
Intelligent Design (or: Who’s The Idiot That Gave Me Nipples?)
The theory itself is quite obtuse, but the general belief is that any given thing in nature (including humans) is so complex and well designed, that there must be an intelligent designer behind it. The people that support this theory quite often claim that it’s not a religiously based hypothesis, but unfortunately, that is a thin veneer that most in the scientific community see through immediately.