Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
This Friday, June 5, 2026 will be Dead Duck Day — and it will be the second most spectacular of all the Dead Duck Days. The most spectacular, of course, was the day the two ducks figured in the now-famous collision with, and hookup next to, the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. That […]
A small, deep example of the old saying that all things are connected: “Krill defecation at depth reduces carbon flux attenuation in the Weddell Sea euphotic zone,” Florence Sarah Atherden, Emily Rowlands, Gareth Flint, Sophie Fielding, Katrin Schmidt, Elaine Fileman, Angus Atkinson, and Clara Manno, prerint egusphere-2026-988, 2026. (Thanks to Bieito Fernandez Castro for bringing […]
Much confusion arose as to what a thing was. Marc Furió and colleagues did some detective work, then reported what they think they found out: “No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. [doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2023.03.006] (2023),” Marc Furió, Raef Minwer-Barakat, and Antonio García-Alix, Palaeoworld, vol. 33, no. 6, […]
Some humans eat nettles. So do some gorillas. This report looks at twelve gorillas and a small portion of their gastronomic experience with nettles: “An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas,” Claudio Tennie, Daniela Hedwig, Josep Call, and Michael Tomasello, American Journal of Primatology: Official Journal of the American Society of Primatologists, vol. […]