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billytea - Sep 17, 2012 9:30:54 pm PDT #20409 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

How crassly US-centric of me. I sort of thought they were everywhere that had the tubes filled with cats and, likely, pornography.

We have a local version, Quickflix, which I'm currently using to go through The Good Wife, Parks and Recreation and Waking the Dead. (Taking Biyi through the first two.) I don't use streaming though, just Luddite-friendly disc rental.

billytea - Sep 18, 2012 1:08:43 am PDT #20410 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Monsters have now finished their walkies. And I should recommend another book. Endless Forms Most Beautiful is specifically about evo devo, but another book that has a lot to say on the subject - and I think puts it into a more interesting context - is Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish. [link]

The story behind it: the author, Neil Shubin, is one of the discoverers of Tiktaalik. [link] This is a very important transitional fossil - a lobe-finned fish from the time when tetrapods - land vertebrates - were first evolving. If not our own direct ancestor, it's a close offshoot.

Shubin used this as a starting point to discuss the evolution of the various components of our (tetrapod) bodies, and specifically what we can learn from the comparison to Tiktaalik. It's a very effective narrative structure, and when talking about how bodies developed, necessarily pulls in a lot of good information on evo devo.

Calli - Sep 18, 2012 1:09:14 am PDT #20411 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Isn't today erikaj's birthday? Happy birthday!

Sue - Sep 18, 2012 1:14:16 am PDT #20412 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Happy Birthday erika!

billytea - Sep 18, 2012 2:12:34 am PDT #20413 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Happy birthday, erika!

sj - Sep 18, 2012 3:01:33 am PDT #20414 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Happy Birthday, erika!!!

I missed Trudy! Of all the nights to actually sleep.

lisah - Sep 18, 2012 3:40:04 am PDT #20415 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Happy birthday, erika!!

Polter-Cow - Sep 18, 2012 3:40:17 am PDT #20416 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

And I should recommend another book. Endless Forms Most Beautiful is specifically about evo devo, but another book that has a lot to say on the subject - and I think puts it into a more interesting context - is Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish.

I have that book! I liked it, but it wasn't as great a read as I expected.

Happy birthday, erika!

JenP - Sep 18, 2012 3:41:21 am PDT #20417 of 30001

Happy Birthday, erika!

sumi - Sep 18, 2012 4:52:09 am PDT #20418 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Happy Birthday, erika!

Does Neil Shubin explain why our knees are such a ridiculous design?

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