Keep out of reach of children
Don't I get a cookie?
Spike ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Nov 16, 2006 11:34:23 am PST #733 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2006 11:37:57 am PST #734 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gay animals out of the closet?
First-ever museum display shows 51 species exhibiting homosexuality
From male killer whales that ride the dorsal fin of another male to female bonobos that rub their genitals together, the animal kingdom tolerates all kinds of lifestyles.
A first-ever museum display, "Against Nature?," which opened last month at the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum in Norway, presents 51 species of animals exhibiting homosexuality.
"Homosexuality has been observed in more than 1,500 species, and the phenomenon has been well described for 500 of them," said Petter Bockman, project coordinator of the exhibition.
The idea, however, is rarely discussed in the scientific community and is often dismissed as unnatural because it doesn't appear to benefit the larger cause of species continuation.
"I think to some extent people don't think it's important because we went through all this time period in sociobiology where everything had to be tied to reproduction and reproductive success," said Linda Wolfe, who heads the Department of Anthropology at East Carolina University. "If it doesn't have [something to do] with reproduction it's not important."
However, species continuation may not always be the ultimate goal, as many animals, including humans, engage in sexual activities more than is necessary for reproduction.
"You can make up all kinds of stories: Oh it's for dominance, it's for this, it's for that, but when it comes down to the bottom I think it's just for sexual pleasure," Wolfe told LiveScience.
SailAweigh - Nov 16, 2006 11:38:13 am PST #735 of 10007
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
In case of emergency, break glass.
Allyson - Nov 16, 2006 11:38:52 am PST #736 of 10007
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Sorry about the argument, ita.
Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2006 11:43:01 am PST #737 of 10007
brillig
I love bonobos.
Megan E. - Nov 16, 2006 11:44:34 am PST #738 of 10007
...a half hour later in Newfoundland.
Ginger - Nov 16, 2006 11:55:33 am PST #739 of 10007
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Mind the gap.
Shelter milk animals.
Aims - Nov 16, 2006 11:57:21 am PST #740 of 10007
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Jump into The Gap!
sarameg - Nov 16, 2006 11:58:03 am PST #741 of 10007
Soft Shoulder.
OK, I like the new monitor, but I think I need to tinker with the controls a little bit. I keep deciding the whitespace is a wee bit yellow, then a wee bit green, then a wee bit red. I think I may need to turn down the brightness or something.
Gudanov - Nov 16, 2006 12:05:48 pm PST #742 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping
I like my monitors at work but neither was new when I started working here 7 years ago so I suppose it is only a matter of time until one my glorious 20+" CRTs goes the way of the dinosaurs and CRT monitors for that matter.