Category: Just For Fun
When it comes to Olympic feats, humans are no match for animals
| August 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Just For Fun, News |
A male rhinoceros beetle can lift 850 times its own weight – equivalent to a human world champion “lifting six double-decker buses weighing over 8000 kg. more
How babies evolved, according to Darwinian evolution
| July 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Just For Fun, News |
Our favourite photographer philosopher, Laszlo Bencze, translates from the Darwinspeak more
Fri nite frite: Largest known crocodile could swallow a human whole
| July 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, News |
” … the crocs were bigger than today’s crocodiles, and we were smaller, so there probably wasn’t much biting involved,’ Brochu says.” more
Severe language warning, but …
| July 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Just For Fun, News |
This item (How to tell if you are a troll) might be Friday fun for some. more
Coffee: Golden ratio put to music
| June 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Mathematics, News |
To create a musical interpretation, Blake mapped the digits in the constant to musical notes. more
Onion story too much like actual cosmology today to qualify as spoof
| June 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Just For Fun, News |
Cosmologists have banded together to sue newspaper for stealing their ideas. more
When the design inference goes bad …
| June 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, News |
It gets really scuzzy …. more
Onion: Thousands of very frightened new rainforest species discovered
| May 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Just For Fun, News |
“a newt that regularly suffers from anxiety attacks, and a bullfrog that appeared to actually be praying.” more
Science news for a Saturday morning: Cedar waxwings die a drunkard’s death
| May 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Just For Fun |
“Residents puzzled by the deaths sent the bodies to the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory in San Bernardino. … ” more
Here’s science news you should drop all your expensive equipment in the middle of an experiment just to learn: “Beetles die during sex with beer bottles”
| October 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Just For Fun, News, Science |
And you thought the human dating scene was tough? Scram off, lab rat! You dunno the half. more
This one’s for Gil Dodgen – an eagle owl on final approach …
| October 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Just For Fun, News |
Cause we can’t afford to buy him a Lotus. more
Can you distinguish photoshopping vs nature?
| February 25, 2010 | Posted by DLH under Design inference, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun |
RomanM has a fascinating challenge. Out of seven photos at: MyPics Which one was not manipulated by Photoshop? more
Danny MacAskill: Proof that anything humans do can be turned into an art
| December 7, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Just For Fun |
SETI Gets New Toys!
| August 19, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Eyes Rolling, Humor, Just For Fun, Off Topic, Psychology, Religion |
Quest to find life beyond Earth gets technological boosts By Andrea Pitzer, Special for USA TODAY 8/19/09 The search for intelligent life in the universe is still on. Despite the absence of interstellar tourists to date, astronomers at the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) are hoping that we are not alone. And with new… more
Dino’s Whiplash
| April 2, 2009 | Posted by Tim under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Culture, Evolution, Just For Fun, Philosophy |
A short article in the popular press reports that certain sauropods with long necks could not have held those necks upright. I read the article, leaned back in my chair and did a lot of serious thinking. . . more
‘Lincoln and Darwin — Live For One Night Only!’ Now On-Line
| February 11, 2009 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Biography, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Media, Philosophy, Religion, Science |
I am pleased to say that an audio version (MP3) of my play ‘Lincoln and Darwin — Live for One Night Only!’ is now on-line at ‘The Sci-Phi Show’, courtesy of Jason Rennie, the Sydneyside philosophical broadcaster. Here it is, just in time for Lincoln and Darwin’s 200th birthday (tomorrow). The play runs to 85… more
Coffee break: Zipf’s law and the patterns that underlie our lives
| December 17, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Just For Fun |
A friend alerts me to this PhysOrg article about Zipf’s law, according to which, … the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations. The linguist George Kingsley Zipf first proposed the law in 1949, when he noticed that the distribution of words in a newspaper, book, or other literary article always followed the… more
Fun With Google Trends – ID vs. Darwinism vs. Creationism
| October 2, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun |
Blue: Intelligent Design; Red: Darwinian Evolution; Orange: Scientific Creationism; Green: Theological Evolution Any questions? Source: Google Trends Update: Due to whiny protesters who say Darwinian evolution isn’t fair, I shortened it to evolution. And just to be fair I shortened intelligent design to design. more
Hoax, Arthur Spiderwick, or True Chimera
| August 2, 2008 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Eyes Rolling, Just For Fun, Media |
In case you missed it in the news or in SciAm: Mystery of the Montauk Monster is making the headlines. Arthur Spiderwick’s Spitting Gargoyle Man Bear Pig Chimera (art) You decide. more
Anyone want to try this game and let me know if it’s good?
| May 23, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design, Just For Fun |
This time on ID the Future, Casey Luskin — changing things up a little — sits down to talk with videogame artist Dennis DeMercer about his recent work on the Nintendo DS version of the forthcoming game Spore. Working with Amaze Entertainment, DeMercer was responsible for animating 3-D creatures ranging from single-celled organisms to advanced… more
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