They also exclusively eat one food, from which their systems are able to gain very little nutrition. Just not a very viable species at this point.

Remember that background extinction rate is for everything - insects, molluscs, fish, crustaceans, the lot - while the 322 spp. over 500 years is nothing but terrestrial vertebrates. So that's on top of the background rate, and it is a big deal. Another factor that doesn't get mentioned enough is the phyletic…

True but the studio was resistant to the idea that the star wouldn't show his face for the whole movie.

Sadly, it didn't make a lot of money though, which is what the studio execs look at. (Casually ignoring that they didn't do a very good job marketing it or that the name was still partially toxic from the Stallone-debacle from the 90's)

Evolution and speciation aren't the same thing. I'm familiar with the finch example - it's a very well-known case - and in the article that you cite, the finch population didn't evolve into a new species in five years. Natural selection due to a drought killed off all but a small subset of the population and left only…

One of the issues here is that many of the new species that would have evolved during that time are not ecologically equivalent to the species that are being lost. We're disproportionally removing large vertebrate carnivores and herbivores. This isn't just a numbers game. New flies and copepods are not going to…

In short, this silly tool allows someone like me, with very limited space, tools, and interest to make simple, sturdy furniture quickly, easily, and safely.

Nice! My boyfriend has actually been considering the Leaf. Will pass along this info.

Well, I'll cut the tiny slack that those things eat up mountains of FX dollars so that's one reason.

SD is right - that ain't happening.

We have vastly different experiences with sharepoint.

My office has yammer and it is completely useless, just like the real facebook because people post all kinds of crap on it. It's just a wall of noise.

We also have Sharepoint...Worst. Thing. Ever.

I do taxes (on the side) for pending freelancers (at least here in the US) here is my advice.

My third grade teacher had a bookshelf for free time and I picked up Tom Swift and His Flying Lab. That hooked me on scifi, because he showed me that science can solve lots of problem, though not all.

I think Ang Lee's Hulk is too good for comic books.

It may still be, even after all these years, the only adult take on a superhero done for film.

*drops mic, puts on gloves*

Clifyt covered a lot of it, but here's the Cliffs (Slappy) Notes version:

I am not going to edit my above post for context but the error was in my response not my math. Sorry. .45mm=.00147 feet 1 foot /.00147 feet = 677 approx.

According to my bar napkin math, .045 mm/y will result in a 1 foot sea level rise in 677 years. Off-the-charts screwed indeed. 26 generations from now, we are going to be all soggy, and possible different climatey!

If I wanted the highest quality sound possible? 2" tape. However, it is also not the most stable of mediums lasting only a decade before it starts to degrade. You still have to deal with the grains embedded in the magnetic medium that encode the sound and limited through this.