Tag: Art

The X-Men Diet

The other day, I was inspired to think about creative ways to lose weight. “Creative” meaning solutions that allow one to eat tasty food. That pretty much leaves us with quackery or increasing energy expenditure. Unfortunately, quackery, being quackery, generally does not work, and increasing energy expenditure usually means doing things that are either boring (e.g., jogging) or hard work (e.g., jogging) or both (e.g., jogging).

What really increases your energy usage, isn’t boring, or hard work? Shooting energy beams from your eyes, like Cyclops[1]. Shooting energy beams from your eyes has to require lots of energy, doesn’t it. I mean, they are beams of energy. And, Cyclops always seems to be in pretty good shape. Could the two be connected? Where does the energy for the beams of energy come from? Continue reading “The X-Men Diet”

Killjoy

Periodically, the Laboratory of Molecular Biology hosts an art show for the researchers and employees. What you see here is the flyer for the art show, with some added commentary (circled in red).

Roll eyes – Return to lab.

You, operator of this supposedly pithy pen, are everything that is wrong with the way we do science.

Puppets, outside the box

A while ago, The Frogger returned from a story-time/art project event with two puppets, of which she was understandably very proud. One she created under her own creative direction, with technical assistance from SuperMom. The other was created with the assistance of an adult helper, who “helped” her make a puppet. Can you guess which is which?

To my eye, both puppets have a recognizable face, but they are not equal. Continue reading “Puppets, outside the box”

Decancelliation

I imagine that very few species would consider not having to worry about leopard attacks a bad thing. The enthusiasm for any story claiming that human beings continue to being driven upwards and onwards by natural selection suggests that we pine for those halcyon days of yore when being eaten alive by jungle cats was a major source of morbidity[1]. We worry about a lack of selection for things like good eye-sight and gobble up cheap, pop evolutionary psychology[2] stories of adaptive behavior.

We really want to know are human beings still evolving and how can reclaim the benefits of natural selection without feeding our offspring to leopards?

Continue reading “Decancelliation”

MythBusters

Essentially.