The Whale Shark, Rhincodon typus, is not only the largest member of the shark family, it’s also the largest of the fish species–and it’s the first in the series of Phylo Coral-Reef Card illustrations that belong to Maki’s set! Previous entries from my own set can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 It [...]
So the long short of it is, yeah, that study? it didn’t work. You can’t prolong primate life by keeping them on a calorie restrictive diet (and that doesn’t bode well for human life extension). During the study some of the scientists, encouraged by the thought, went on the diet themselves. If it worked I [...]
Evolution is a blind, aimless process. It can give rise to mind-boggling complexity from incredibly simple, chance beginnings but it can also appear to take steps backwards as far as ‘progress’* is concerned (if that’s the way you like to look at it). There is no real direction. Take for example average human** heights through [...]
Real as the beard on my face. Would I ever lie? This past weekend Audrey and I had some friends over for dinner and drinks as a somewhat late housewarming party. We had planned the event the weekend Irene hit, and at some point between then and now, I stopped calling it a housewarming party. [...]
I love rice. I also love robots. So now you can see why modern rice cookers excite me. At the end of my interview with Zojirushi Corp. marketing manager Marilyn Matsuba, I asked her, “How proud are you about the fact that your company has produced the closest thing to an all-in-one, automatic, food preparation [...]
The conversation in the comic actually happened the day I moved in with Audrey. She always cooked her rice in a pot, and as the bringer of light to destitute civilizations (she didn’t have wifi before I moved in) I felt the need to extol the rice cooker’s virtues. I like to think I explained [...]