I’m going to meet Lemmy

I’m going to see Motorhead Thursday.  They are going to sign autographs at a cool little CD store called The Sound Garden in Baltimore.  Hopefully I’ll get a chance to find out what they think about the Lemmy-based ratings system.

Conversation between two apes explained

My chimp/chump story from last week is a simplified example of how one ape species split into two.  This splitting is called speciation.  The apes in the story are members of the species that was the most recent common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees (and bonobos.)

Let’s pause for one of the digressions I like to [...]

“Fun” science quiz turns into religious debate

Science writers need to find ways to explain the world without pushing people’s buttons…
People don’t take advice when they are pissed at you.

No 5-Lemmy ratings yet

They will be very rare. I might not even cover them because news of them will be everywhere. You heard about fire, right? Electricity? The wheel? The humbucking pickup?