Month: April 2010

Observatory – Insect May Make Moves to Survive the Harvest – NYTimes.com

One thing about evolution — you never know what’s going to influence it. Take the European corn borer, for instance. Researchers have just made a strong case that a certain aspect of its behavior has evolved because of human harvesting of corn.

Observatory – Insect May Make Moves to Survive the Harvest – NYTimes.com

sarzha:

From 1880 to 1887, when mussels were considered vulgar and skate too ugly to cook, a group of socially prominent men met once a year to glut on unpopular seafood. Calling themselves the Ichthyophagous Club, they would “endeavor to overcome prejudice directed towards many kinds of fish, which are rarely eaten, because their excellence is unknown.” They would also serve punch.

An excerpt from the epic ballad composed to mark occasion of the first dinner: 

When the Ichthyophagous dines
There’ll be many a curious dish
Of things ne’er caught with lines,
And not at all like fish—
Steaks of porpoise and ribs of whales,
Aspic of Jellyfish, octopus stew,
Shark-fin soup and gurry-gur-roo,
When the Ichthyophagous dines.

U.S. Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw | Danger Room | Wired

There’s no easy way to kill somebody. You don’t just take somebody’s life and then go on about your business for the rest of the day. That stays with you. And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. That’s why so many soldiers come back home and they’re no longer in the situations where they have other things to think about or other people to joke about what happened … and they explode.

I don’t say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn’t…. I think it is good that they’re putting this stuff out there. I don’t think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war…. It’s very disturbing.

Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/2007-iraq-apache-attack-as-seen-from-the-ground/#ixzz0lqhz67kg

U.S. Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw | Danger Room | Wired