I was left at the Bronx Zoo when I was eight. My mother only realized it after distributing bagels to siblings and cousins in the car and coming up with one extra. To be fair, there were about eight kids in the car—VW bus, 1970's, no car seat laws. Oh, but she had also left one of my brothers at home by accident as…

Maybe she's team pie.

All the dolphins are discussing it on their media website, Squeeker.

I'd think that if that is what your body wants when you wake up, then why not feed it that way. There's nothing magical about cinnamon rolls or pancakes. According to my old Japanese ESL students, a typical Japanese breakfast is cooked fish, rice and miso soup.

Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs:

"I work in the candy biz" has to be the best pick-up line ever. It would work on me in any case.

Thanks! I wish that people wouldn't automatically assume that scientists that study animals somehow delight in bringing harm to those animals. I've never met a biologist of any stripe who didn't have an amazing amount of love for their subjects, even a woman who works with tardigrades!

Same reaction, same reason! (except for grandfather).

Makes my head asplodey! WTF is race? Could somebody please define it for me? If you go strictly on a shared dna basis, there are more "races" (i.e., more genetic diversity) from one side of Africa to the other than from Asia to Ireland. The longer a population has been in place, the more genetic variability there…

My sink is directly next to my stove so I use an Eco Paper cutting board to give me some working space next to the fire! I love those boards.

Consider multiverse theory: None of them are *alternate* histories, just histories that we haven't witnessed.

LOL, that's so cute that you think *we* domesticated *them*! Who is picking up whose poop?

As I understand it, unless they are bred for it, their eyesight is pretty poor to begin with. I wonder if for dogs, losing their sight would be akin to our losing our sense of smell (and vice versa). It would be a drag, but certainly not devastating. My old man is mostly deaf and certainly losing his eyesight at 13,…

I too, have noticed that more often than not, the straw man in an argument is a (feminist) woman.

Jane Fonda's fault.

This book offers a pretty good rebuttal:

I was going to go with the extremophilic tardigrade too, but only for its super-cuteness.

I'm just here to say OMG, I love that man (Tyson). And that his answer is the most sensible thing I've read in a while is just icing on the cupcake.

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Between Hamm, Hendricks, Brie and Kartheiser, I imagine that set is a joy to work on. Seriously, everytime I read/hear an interview with any of them, it just makes me want to go to there.