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POPSOn the Origin of Species
A must read. "the Struggle for Existence amongst all organic beings throughout the world, which inevitably follows from their high geometrical powers of increase, will be treated of. This is the doctrine of Malthus, applied to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms. As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. This fundamental subject of Natural Selection" "namely, that each species has been independently created - is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable" The first of our six abridged extracts; can't wait for the res
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POPSPrimitivism Another viewpoint and value system than the current all-will-be well, if only we rush a faster and learn to accept all that is new and shiny. Or at the very least: food for thought.
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POPSTracking the Origin of the Cat Cats probably started living close to humans when people evolved from nomadic herding to raising livestock and crops and started storing food, which attracted mice and other rodents. Cats found good hunting there, and humans surely appreciated the sly little predators' help protecting their stocks."There was a mutual benefit," Lyons said. From there, domesticated cats started to radiate out to different parts of the world, often following humans on their migrations. Today cats can be divided genetically into four broad groups: those from Europe, the Mediterranean, East Africa and Asia. But Lyons and her colleagues also made surprising discoveries about individual breeds. The Japanese bobtail, for example, does not seem genetically similar to cats from Japan, indicating the breed may have originated elsewhere. Despite its name, the Persian, the oldest recognized breed, looks as though it actually arose in Western Europe and not Persia, which today is Iran.
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POPSThe History of Rice Spready through wet monsoon asia through the "technology" of the rice paddy. Spread to Europe by the Moorish conquest of Spain. When did it reach Italy? How did it spread in Central Asia?
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POPSFidos logic changes when he's home alone Dogs tend to be more logical when their owners aren't around- " You Know you're not allowed on the Bed when I'm out, Why don't you do what you're told ?" Because the bed is comfortable, and warm ?.
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POPSGoggleyesed at Clipmarks Hello there ... if you were looking for sumobelly, he is no more. He went too far with his clipmarking and got lost in the world of steam technology. He is forever goggle-eyed at the wonders of a lost era that probably still lives under the hood of electron driven technology. IP, HTML, web 2.0, ajax, flash, PHP, CSS, C++, LINUX, OS X, Firefox, Clipmarks .... it's all a facade hiding the power of monstrous steam engines working their way in huge zeppelins through the sky.
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