Day Prior…9 April 2009

Workout notes 2 mile walk last night (easy); stretching this morning.

Science

Conservation Report: has an interesting article about an isolated population of wolves. Evidently inbreeding has lead to a sharp increase in the percentage of birth defects, and scientists are weighing the possibility of introducing new wolves to the population to help things out. On another note, the warmer weather has lead to weaker moose hence the moose are being hunted more successfully by the wolves.

Lungless Frog: Jerry Coyne’s blog has an interesting article about a frog having evolved so as to lose its lungs. It breathes though it skin; other frogs can do this but this frog breathes this way exclusively.

Religion This article contains a video (and I can’t seem to embed MSNBC videos) where Christopher Hitchens debates a right wing fundamentalist about the nature of religion in today’s US society. The wingnut doesn’t seem to understand that the US was founded as a secular state, though many of the early Americans were indeed Christian.

Politics We will be watching the tea-baggers, mostly to make fun of them.

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