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http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/bizarre-ant-colony-discovered-in-an-abandoned-polish-nuclear-weapons-bunker/ In an abandoned nuclear bunker in Poland, ants have colonized a hellish space through a bizarre distortion of a typical ant colony. Living on near constant starvation, a colony with no queens and no males persists. It is not a fire and brimstone hell but a dark, cold ninth-circle of hell spent largely on the one colony activity left intact: moving the dead to the colony edges. A starved existence with no clearly-identified food source, surrounded by mountains of the dead. Yet, the colony persists through the year to be replenished by a rain of fresh workers who fall down a rusted ventilation pipe by the annual expansion of the normal colony living on the earthen surface above. It's easy to think of an ant colony as its own standalone thing, but it is in fact a generative property of ant biology. This ant hell colony, I think, is a fascinating reminder of this and a keen look into how the mechanics and rules governing ant social systems, applied in such an alien environment, leads to a distorted yet still stable colony system. Very useful for illustrating the true nature of disease and symptoms in biological systems and perhaps for reflecting on human social systems in extreme conditions as well...
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http://phys.org/news/2016-08-tiny-species-extinct-australian-marsupial.html Not much to say here other than "How the heck do get 'lion' out of that?" The Microleo attenboroughi has been officially named for Sir David Attenborough.
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In his absolutely uncontested and empirically well founded book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins - the world's most intelligent scientist and history's greatest thinker - proved beyond a doubt that any organism, including humans, is just a vehicle for its genes. A gene may not have a will of its own, but it certainly behaves that way in that it wants to spread as much as possible, having as many copies of itself around as possible. It's the paramount biological, the paramount evolutionary imperative. But what about the faggots? They flagrantly violate this fundamental imperative! In that they consort with the same gender they forgo reproduction, and therefore the basic biological function of spreading their genes. Evolution, the optimization of the species is hindered if the selfish genes cannot engage in this competition of who has the most bodies with copies of themselves running them. So you see, sodomy is a net negative factor in that it removes potentially beneficial genes from the gene pool! And as you know, there has yet to be a sodomy gene to be found. Logically, rationally speaking this means homosexualism is not a genetic defect, but a psychological disorder. The only reasonable course to fix this detrimental influence on the common good is appropriate psychiatric treatment of queers, the use of aphrodisiacs and other psychotropic medicines, etc., to cure them of their disease and help them executing their biological imperative of spreading their genes through the other gender. In conclusion, Science Hates Fags!
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