Well, at least smarter than me in this respect.
This is a far easier way to open a Banana. Thank you fellow primates!
But as usual, humans have to add their “extra” knowledge to the subject.
You can add this to pile. Another missing link between Apes (not monkeys) and Humans.
60 Minutes had an excellent segment on what could be the greatest find in the history of the human race.
Australopithecus sediba, is a nine year old boy who lived 1.9 million years ago. A half-human/half ape that lived in the trees and on land.
I am amazed by these discoveries. They show a fascinating gradual gradient of the evolution of man. They also show how irrevelent religion is in the history of humans. Since for 90% of our history, there is no evidence of it.
Or at least if God was around, He must have been pretty bored. No prayers to answer about finding a great parking space, winning $50 bucks on a scratch and win ticket, or making it a Snow Day.
Just wanted to say thanks for the encouragement you’ve given me on my Comic Strip.
In gratitude, I’ve created a Desktop version of the previous graphic “Eratosthenes Wanna Be”, free for Download. This little comic strip is still a very small piece of the skeptic community. If you like it, tell you’re friends!
16:9 version
4:3 version
This was inspired by Carl Sagan’s telling of how—with only a stick—Eratosthenes, in the 3rd Century BC, showed not only that the world was round but also calculated its size.
Neil deGrasse Tyson in his essay goes on to show that with just a simple stick, you can also measure time, the seasons, and figure out how long a year is.
All the thousands of Godly inspired religious words and books ever written could not match the knowledge of a simple stick.
“Did you know that the global elite are storing non-hybrid seeds in secret storage vaults near the Arctic Circle?”
Holy moly! I did NOT know that. Thanks’ Alex Jones, for alerting me of the need to stockpile “non-hybrid” seeds for my crisis garden.
Silly me, I always had a stereotype of a conspiracy theorist as someone who was a gun hoarding, food stockpiling loon ready for a war with the tyranical government.
IBased on the ads that are played on the Alex Jones show, that stereotype is 100% factual.
I’m doing research for a new character in my comic strip who is a conspiracy theorist—Alex Jones, Zeitgeist – the movie, he’s seen them all.
Anyone got a good name for him?
I have to say, I do enjoy the census–this is my first.
Call me a nerd, but collecting data to make informed fact based decisions is cool, despite what conspiracy theorist’s say about this supposed unconstitutional-data-harvesting-usurpation-of-authority.
However, I was disappointed that the question of religion was not included. I was so looking forward to writing “atheist”, or “none”.
Best I could do was write down what my true race was. (Although maybe I should have wrote “primate”.)
On my way home from buying a tasty Subway Sandwich, I looked down on the sidewalk and saw this ghostly apparition of non-other but the King of Kings!
I snapped this photo near my house with my iPhone. (and then brightened it in Photoshop only because the iPhone ain’t too good at night photos. The original photo is here.)
My photo (brightened) of apparition of Jesus near my house. Contrasted against a standard drawing of Jesus (so your brain is primed to see the apparition.)
I tell you this was clearly a sign. Only an hour before the sighting I was watching “Zeitgeist – The Movie” in which the first half is about how Jesus doesn’t exist.
Clearly God was telling me something. Like do more skeptic comics!
David Blaine irritates me. I found his feats more about quests for egotistical attention than for actual entertainment value.
However, I now have respect this nut case because he has a strong respect for using science and also giving back to it.
In his talk, in which explains how he held his breath for 17 minutes, he tells how he essentially donated himself to science immediately after the event so doctors and scientists could study the effects of this kind of depravation on the human body.
Kudos, I say.
I go jogging because it makes me feel better about myself.
There are other reasons of course, such as it’s good for your health and your brain but the main reason is that it brightens my day.
No matter what did I that day, I can always say “and I went jogging!” and it washes away all the things I regretted doing. For example:
It was a busy week.
To be honest, I never really enjoyed biology in school. It seemed to be more about memorizing the names of things than actually learning how things work.
But If I had The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA as my text book, I’d be singing a different tune.
It’s a great example of using comics and graphics to illustrate complex scientific ideas and a piece of work that someday, I hope to aspire to being able to create. (God willing of course.)
