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Dave Farina
Photo: Dave Farina, via YouTube.

My “Debate” with Professor Dave

On Twitter, Dr. McLatchie took some time to engage in an exchange with Farina, which reflects the quality of the latter’s thinking, such as it is. Read More ›
octopus
Photo credit: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.

If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?

We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). Read More ›
spider
Photo credit: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 US <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Read More ›

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