Would you like to be able to move your ears at will? There’s a good chance you already can (using a 25 million-year-old neural circuit). Dr Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson [pictured] was the first to formally document the so-called oculoauricular phenomenon in his 1908 paper ‘A note on an associated movement of the eyes and […]
Tag: creationism
Perspectives on Bomby the Bombardier Beetle
The Sept/Oct 2000 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research featured seven perspectives on the curious creationist book Bomby the Bombardier Beetle, which is based screw-loosedly on the curious, real insect called the bombardier beetle: Bomby, Bomby, Bomby (an introduction)* — Sally Shelton Bomby: Thoughts of a Forensic Entomologist* — Mark Benecke Creative Science Serves […]
Education: Choose your own dates
From New Scientist‘s Feedback column: WHEN you are selling education packs for children, some of whose parents might be fervent creationists, one of the options available is to, well, cave in to them and ditch the education part. That seems to be the option chosen by US publisher Live and Learn Press with its dinosaur […]