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THE CRUELTY BEHIND OUR CLOTHING - WOOL
newtboyWe also have people trying to sell cockroach milk for human consumption. Count me out.
Yeast milk is identical to cow milk in the same way my piss is identical to lemonade. It's yellow and wet...see, identical.
OK, I'm al for genetically engineering a sheep that wants to be sheered, and is intelligent enough and articulate enough to tell you so. Even better if it wants to be eaten too and can tell you about which parts of it are the most succulent. The problem then becomes keeping it from interbreeding with real sheep and driving them extinct....I guess we'll have to castrate them all. ;-)
That's a good reason to boycott wool. If it's all profit driven they will find other ways to make their product.
For example we've got yeast now which grows dairy milk identical to cows milk, thanks to an increasing market of people who refuse to buy milk from dairy farms.
I'm certain if enough people put pressure on the wool industry then someone innovative will take advantage and make some kind of device that grows wool without the sheep.
So we can have our cakes and eat them too in the long run, just by slightly altering our purchasing habits in the short term.
How It Should Have Ended: Assassin's Creed
NetRunner"There goes Altair, being chased yet again by Italy's finest."
Ahem, Altair was in Jerusalem, Damascus, and Acre. Ezio was in Italy.
Also, the mechanics they're making fun of here? In the Italy-based games, guards would recognize you when you sat on benches, and jab their spears into hay-bales.
Though Ezio still survives 1000 foot falls when he just lands in hay, or piles of leaves, or oddly enough, flowery bushes...
Though they've also said that assassins are actually imbued with special abilities they inherited via a little human/SPOILER interbreeding.
A site named "dorkly" should know these things!
Evolution meets Religion (Science Talk Post)
bamdrewUm, oh yeah, I guess I didn't make a clear point...
Point was this; evolution is an idea that jives with every scrap of evidence we've tossed at it. Significant challengers have risen, but further research has explained away the apparent contradictions to the 'natural selection' program.
Its incumbent on the current generation to inspire the next to keep piling up more clues and delving deeper into the intricacies of our natural world. In other words, one way science fails is by giving value to ideas that have little to no evidence to support them. And another way science fails is by allowing a neglect of critical thinking to flourish.
It is important to know that the earth revolves around the sun; we can then begin to understand seasons, shooting stars, other planets, the moon... etc. Similarly it is important to know that evolution occurs by natural selection; we can then begin to understand why there are hundreds of thousands of non-interbreeding beetle species, how ants know what to do, why my great grandfather looks just like me but was a foot shorter, why our bananas are in danger of being wiped out by a fungus, and why squirrels and cats can climb trees while little dogs can not!
Baby fox enjoys an ice cream
lucky760The guy sounds like a real pervert the way he talks.
I saw this very interesting study conducted in Russia several decades ago. Basically they took a whole bunch of wild foxes into captivity and started interbreeding those which were the least aggressive toward their human captors. The most interesting part of the study is that after just a couple of generations of this selective breeding, evolution started kicking in and not only were the foxes completely docile, but their coats started changing colors and having different patterns and some of their ears got floppy. They just really started to not look like foxes any more.
This was truly fascinating not only because it can easily explain how there came to be so many different breeds of dog and how quickly that could happen, but to actually watch evolution happening in real time.
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It's so interesting, I blogged about the study.