Sometimes a gaping maw is just a gaping maw.

I know where you're going with this... ;)

I've eaten toasted marshmallows like that.

Aside from they look like they was beat with a ugly stick, nothin'. I mean, them sumsbitches put th' ugh in ugly.

Naked Mole Rat

Holy shit!

I need to do it in my southern (US) redneck accent.

I just used the antique sense in an io9 writing exercise: "your awful Majesty" which, I suppose, nowadays would get you beheaded.

Smaller species of the mantis shrimp and all praying mantis species have evolved a stored energy spring mechanism to power their strikes at velocities 10 times faster than a muscle contraction can achieve (e.g. 20 m/s vs 2 m/s). And, of course, the kinetic energy goes as the *square* of velocity (0.5mv^2) so 50 …

Ha! Your mantis long spear is no match for my empty hand mantis kungfu!

The colorization looks like the stress patterns in plastic under polarized light. Maybe the shifts represented in the satellite interference pattern follow the plasticity of the ground along stress lines. Of course an earthquake is the Earth's way of relieving stress. ;)

I believe the circular link is Annalee's demo of a phantom internet traffic jam, the sly devil. Realistic, too. Everybody recursing and getting nowhere.

"does that mean we need to dismiss the possibility"

Check out Stanley Milgram's stare at a building experiment: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscien…

Sharkfirenado! It's the fishfry from Hell!

I guess I just haven't seen it in response to my posts (so far). I've found people to be respectful by and large. I guess it helps I have a thick skin and sense of humor about myself. :)

1. You nailed it. Out of the 13 billion year age of the universe, what is the likely range where the clock started for the evolution of life and what is the likely range for the time needed to reach some arbitrary level of sophistication (say where we are now for example). Because that span of time divided by the…

Sheeeee. All you guys talking about the 60's 70's and 80's like it was the Middle Ages. Making me feel even *more* prehistoric. ;)

Hooray for common sense!

Try the veal. I'll be Bach all week.