And there goes the endemic aquatic fauna of those high-altitude lakes. These are all carnivorous fish that they’re stocking them with. That sort of thing has had a huge impact on the native amphibian species in the Sierra Nevada.

As God as my witness, I thought fish could fly.

Just knowing that Venus has active volcanism would be pretty neat, even if it meant the phosphine turned out to be abiotic. 

Martha and the Vandellas. Hands down.

Well, it’s like... a wave. Of heat.

Agreed, no free lunches.

Anyone wanting an example of a geochemical gradient supporting a varied and rather weird ecosystem need look no further than those deep-sea vent communities.

Lovely fossil, that.

Nomenclature is ancestry. The Linnaean system maps out onto the great phylogeny of life with surprising fidelity, given that Linnaeus was a creationist. We strive, every day, to incorporate this principle into our research.

Then that tells me we cannot rely on solar and wind alone if the base materials are limited. 

Grating. I just finished teaching a class on this an hour ago.

Where they are proposing to build the tunnel is not prone to flooding. There is a tunnel under the New River in Fort Lauderdale that doesn’t flood so I guess that sets a precedent for potential tunnels in the area. The proposed tunnel is not without technical challenges but is doable. The issue I see is that Fort Laude…

Molly! They are not crustaceans. They are mollusks (crustaceans are another type of shellfish, with segmented bodies, joints, antennae). You’re giving bivalves a name that belongs to crabs, shrimp and lobsters. Popular-science writing cringe! Sorry, I just can’t take a piece seriously that doesn’t even correctly name…

You sit on a tractor riding on the FARM OF DESPAIR!

Live in the general area. It is targeted as a solution to heavy traffic to and from the beach areas mixed with local roadways which cannot handle the volume. Which to me begs the question why would this help if it too will probably become overwhelmed by volume. Local news coverage is still unclear if it will mean…

If we’re going to fight to have perfect become the enemy of good, like Democrat supporters so often do, then 2022 might as well be given over to the GQP.

Any word on the Alberta government’s gift of $1.3 billion to TC Energy for this pipeline? The money that Alberta taxpayers might as well have gathered into a big pile and set on fire (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/keystone-xl-termination-1.6059683)? I don’t see any mention of the Alberta government being a…

Great, a substance we don’t know the composition of (because of trade secrets or whatnot

Great, a substance we don’t know the composition of (because of trade secrets or whatnot) will be sprayed over everything without knowing what it actually is. Sounds like an outstanding idea. Like DDT being hailed as an integral part of “the world of tomorrow!” 

Good article. Thatcher should be remembered for her acceptance of science, despite all of the damage her social and economic policies did. There certainly isn’t any such acceptance on the Right any longer.