Richard Dawkins reads his hate-mail aloud

A cool video of fellow Satan-fodder Richard Dawkins reading some of the profane, violent, hateful email he gets from his greatest fans; Creationists. His little chuckle at the end is heart-warming and it is always a pleasure to hear the author and biologist speak.



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Stem cells trial helps broken bones

A 36-YEAR-old man who suffered a badly broken leg that wouldn't heal is walking again without crutches after the successful trial of stem cells to repair non-healing bones.

From The Australian, originally heard on 2UE.

Suck it, Pell!

Eww!

Check out these gross little lizard snake things, apparently the tiniest of their kind. The snake (herein named Professor Scales, in honour of T-Rex's tiny friend) was discovered in Barbados by Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist, who co-discovered the lizard in 2001.

Squirmy!

From here, via BoingBoing.