This Week in the Mercury
Monday, May 24, 2010
Science! Science Is Fucking AMAZING
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:21 PM
News flash: SCIENCE IS AMAZING.
If you don't believe it, here is an excerpt from a nature documentary, which explains about a worm-parasite that lives inside of a bird. The bird shits out the parasite, then a snail eats the shit (complete with parasite), then the parasite MIND-CONTROLS the snail which enables the bird to eat it!
Still not impressed by Science? (Jerk.) Well, maybe you haven't heard of a little animal called the Flying Fish. Watch this video narrated by a very enthusiastic British person, and learn.
HOLY FUCK Science is AMAZING.
To learn more about parasites, be sure to check out tomorrow night's OMSI Science Pub, with the theme of "What's Eating You: People and Parasites," with guest speaker Eugene Kaplan, professor of Conservation and Ecology at Hostra University. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan, 7 pm, $2.
OMSI has yet to announce a "Flying Fish Are Fucking Awesome" themed Science Pub.
HT: DD & WSH
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