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Archive for September 12th, 2011

Monday, September 12th, 2011

And all that *I* wanted was a measly 10 years

By Thoreau
That ain’t nuthin compared to this scientist:
Chickens share a common ancestor with alligators and are descended from dinosaurs, raising the question of how they and other birds switched from snouts to beaks. Because chick and gator embryos start out looking strikingly similar, Abzhanov, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, suspected [...]

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Temporal Tampering Continues

By Thoreau
After my battle with (and eventual jumping over) the shark, I shall meddle with time no more.  But some Evil Fiziks Types in my building are busy merging our timeline with the 1980’s.  I saw one of them playing with this in their lab today.

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Whatever timeline we might be in now…

By Thoreau
You thought I was dead? No, I escaped from that shark.  The full story is too long to fit into the margin notes here, but suffice it to say that some jumping and water skis were involved, followed by wandering in the wastelands between the timelines.  I actually did find myself at the beach [...]