“Mr. Wizard” is no more.

Well, actually leaping shampoo. Cool physics, via Geek Press.

Few real estate agents would be surprised at how cave people chose their caves.

Hey, picking a home is so easy, a cave man can do it!

Giant calamari:

If cut up for calamari, the stories said, the squid would produce rings the size of tractor tires. As word got out that the catch had actually been recorded on video, Bennett found himself in the middle of an international bidding war.

Boy, you’d need a pretty big bowl for the dipping sauce.

…from gorillas. Eeeeeuuuuuuuwwww…

Let the japery in the comments section commence.

Were the Neanderthals wiped out by global cooling?

John Tierney is blogging on science.

I’d never really given this much thought, but how come plants can contain proteins, but animals are a hundred percent noncarbohydrates?

[Update a while later]

A commenter points out I’m mistaken. OK, but that still seems like trace amounts, relative to how much protein that you can get from, say, soy. And when I look at any package of dead animal in the supermarket, it always has zero grams of carbs. So even if it’s not a hundred percent, there still seems to be a big disparity. Also, the example given, blood sugar, really part of the animal? I mean, yes, it can’t function without it, but it’s produced by absorbing food and has to be continually replenished. I was thinking about the animal itself. It seem like, for the most part, structurally, we’re meat, fat and bone, not sugar and spice and everything nice. (And does that mean that little girls contain more carbs than little boys, what with the snips and snails and puppy dog tails?)

Some Japanese marine biologists claim to have gotten video of the elusive giant squid at depth.

I had no idea there were so many sperm whales in the western Pacific. Two hundred thousand. That’s a lot of cetacean.

Some Japanese marine biologists claim to have gotten video of the elusive giant squid at depth.

I had no idea there were so many sperm whales in the western Pacific. Two hundred thousand. That’s a lot of cetacean.