Professor P.Z. Myers has a wonderful examination (with pictures!) of the mating rituals of spiders. Another important and dangerous step is flagging down a willing female. Spiders often have elaborate courtship rituals, with fancy dancing, wig-wagging palps, and fragrant pheromones, all working to convince the female, who is a ferocious predator, that the male is […]
…is the first movie that I’ve really, really wanted to see in a long time. I saw the trailer at the Uptown before watching The Aviator. Absolutely breathtaking. From JM McNab’s description, I just want to see it more. The stories are well thought out and often surprising, but it is the execution of the
This is not some sort of declaration that I’m not gay or bi, although I’m not (NTTAWWT). It’s rather that I appreciate women as women, in all their many forms. They’re beautiful and soft and kind and a whole lot of fun to be with. Outer Life has an excellent paean to women that more
David Wong’s The Law of Monkey explains why people are the way they are. Picture a monkey. A monkey dressed like a little pirate, if you wish. We’ll call him Slappy. Imagine you have Slappy as a pet. Imagine a personality for him. Maybe you and he have little pirate monkey adventures and maybe even
Our Criminal Law professor requires a short paper for the term in addition to the traditional end-of-semester exam. While he was answering questions about the paper, a fellow classmate asked whether the paper should be as extensively footnoted as a law review article (where there is typically a 1:1 ratio between text and footnotes). The
I played in one of the Party Poker multi-table freerolls last night for four freaking hours. Placed 30 out of 2299. Got knocked out through my own stupidity. Dealt QTd, flop came KJx, and I pushed all-in. Got beaten by AKo. Not good to get punchy late at night. On the other hand, I won
Carrington Vanston, one of my favorite Canadians, has a sobering look at the “African Cliff.” Sex, being normal and natural and healthy and fun, is not something people will abstain from. It’s not something people have ever abstained from. It’s not something people will ever abstain from. And it’s not something people should abstain from.