Why Don't You Go Off And Read Something Less Boring Instead
Coturnix at A Blog Around The Clock has put together a Science Blogging Anthology featuring the 50 best posts of 2006. None of mine made the grade, but I'm delighted to have contributed a sonnet for the frontispiece.
Alternatively, look at fluffy animals on the EDGE programme website. EDGE's top 100 endangered mammals ranks them not just by rarity but by oddness: if a species has no close relatives, its loss would be particularly tragic. There's a bat the size of a bee and a cyanide-resistant lemur and a dormouse that sheds its skin and a marsupial mole, and 96 other weirds and wonderfuls. Learn about them now, while we can use the present tense.
Alternatively, look at fluffy animals on the EDGE programme website. EDGE's top 100 endangered mammals ranks them not just by rarity but by oddness: if a species has no close relatives, its loss would be particularly tragic. There's a bat the size of a bee and a cyanide-resistant lemur and a dormouse that sheds its skin and a marsupial mole, and 96 other weirds and wonderfuls. Learn about them now, while we can use the present tense.
Labels: Boffinry, Things I Like
posted by MissPrism at 12:20 pm
2 Comments:
Cool!
And on another tangent, "truth" in science have linked to you on their news blogs page:
http://www.truthinscience.org.uk/site/content/blogcategory/51/63
guthrie
That's depressing.
My own MP doesn't appear to have an opinion on the subject, but she did at least refer the matter to a qualified minister and got a pretty unequivocal reply from that quarter: Truth in Science's teaching pack has nothing to do with Science (and by implication has a similarly none-existant relationship with Truth), and shouldn't be used to teach the national curriculum.
That EDGE list is depressing. The world will be a much duller place without things like this chap.
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