Hell yea!
not at all… I listen to NPR
:)
People, when they perform a behavior a lot, outsource the control of the behavior to the environment.
David Neal, psychologist, Duke University
Go Puffer!
Darwin’s The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through The Action of Earthworms outsold the Origin of Species. Say whaaaaat?!
Supposedly they are important. Some fun facts from the Stuff You Should Know Podcast: How Earthworms Work:
- 3k+ species
- there is a 22 foot long earthworm (shudder)
- worm poop (broken down nitrogen) is more nutritious than the food they eat
- their “stomachs” have pebbles that help them digest what they eat (like a crocodile!)
- earthworms have five hearts
- they breathe through their skin facilitated by a mucus, they don’t have lungs
- they sense light through cells on their skin, they don’t have eyes (so the graphic in this post is inaccurate) - their brains are used mainly for light sensing - if you remove their brains, there will not be much behavioral change
- you can listen to the podcast to learn about worm sex o_O
I hate to admit it, but they’re pretty neat…
Reminds me of the beginning of Dawkins’ Unweaving the Rainbow - yet another book on the list if to-reads…
{Alison Gopnik: What Do Babies Think?}
Big take away from this talk: Babies are helpless, but not useless. That’s comforting. :)
A place for people interested in self-tracking to gather, share knowledge and experiences, and discover resources.
Heard about this site on the Stuff You Should Know podcast; they were referring to scientists who self experiment on themselves in this day and age. Can’t help but think that science seemed so much cooler when there were not so many rules and scientists were working with bare bones back then…
Not to say we haven’t come a long way from those days and they’re doing over there at Quantified Self isn’t pretty neat.
negative attitude of attention
