Santa is Satan? Seems legit.

Maybe they're confusing Santa with Krampus, who also isn't Satan but looks more demonic.

bad cut and paste in the caption under the third photo.

Archaeologist, here. Many countries/states/provinces, etc. have legislation that defines what constitutes an archaeological site. In some places, it can take as little as 50 years for a site to enter what is officially the archaeological record. Cemeteries (and sometimes burials) are generally covered under…

One small step forward for Free Market, on giant leap backward for human rights and all mankind.

Yep, unregulated global capitalism is a dream of a tiny number of people and an unmitigated hell for hundreds of millions of others. The multinationals have just exported the Dickensian nightmare to places where the average Wal-Mart shopper can't see it.

It's like a libertarian wet dream!

For those who can afford to benefit, it's like a dream. But most of us would be the underpaid workers who make it run, unprotected by criminal or labor laws.

The facts that Dolphins learn verbal human commands and adapt to their environments - displaying the type of sentience and sapience than many (such as whale,org) have proclaimed - demonstrate that they are not as "hardcoded" (to use your term) as you might think. Improvise, adapt, overcome... all hallmarks of…

Looks like a grey fox.

"Culture" is being used here in the broader sense of retaining memes and passing them on to other members of the community, who then pass them on to others, possibly with changes. These memes may or may not contribute to survival of the community and its genetic material; in this way the memes are themselves analagous…

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circular reason much?

Bonnie Prince Charlie was a debauched, womanising, alcoholic arsehole, more concerned with his own worthless skin than those of his troops, or the consequences to Scotland.

Is this really all that new? Isn't this just a variation of the same method that raffelesia use? Sure, it's imitating dead insects instead of dead vertebrates, but "smell like a dead thing to attract a pollonizing agent" is an established technique.

Captain Pedant here: The specific part of the name should not be capitalized; only the generic part of the name is capitalized. Because taxonomy. So, it is "Alviniconcha strummeri," or "A. strummeri" for brevity.

Define culture, then. Because I think you're giving humans entirely too much credit. All of our 'culture' is a reaction to evolutionary pressures that lead us to propagate our own genes, nothing more, nothing less. We're not above that behavior any more than a dolphin is, it just looks different because the specific…

You're assuming that what humans do is culture and not simply animal behavior, for the single reason that we're humans. Not exactly the strongest argument against that recognition.

Sounds fine to me. I'm a huge fan of orcas, and this is largely because each population has a different "culture" and I find that so fascinating. Each population has its own set of calls, diet, hunting styles, migration routes, habits, familial structures... Like, scientists can find out which pod an orca belongs to…

Not to mention it has exceptional camouflage abilities which allow it to go unnoticed in any environment with cheap modern decor!