It's been a while

Firstly, I was right. I was completely and totally right- exoplanet searches are for morons. Seriously less than a month after Gliese 581 was declared to have a planet in the so called "Goldilocks Zone" there is already a dispute about the 11 years of data. Why? Because you can't make solid assertions from looking at the wobble and flickering of a star millions of light years away. It's basically a bunch of systematic hand waving leading to whatever interpretation you want, in stark contrast to making a direct observation and getting a nice data point. I will now classify this crap as pseudoscience.

For some more coolness, how about that sexual selection eh?

These two lovely treats along with Mojoceratops should be enough to show that sexual selection can drive things to be maladaptive and outright nutty in evolutionary terms.


Finally, and this is really damn cool, a salamander that appears to photosynthesize to get some of its food, especially in ovo. Kind of a head scratcher as vertebrate immune systems don't get along so well with symbiosis, but if any group could do it, of course it's the caudates. They are so flexible, after all.