Is reviving an extinct species a good idea? 

I don't know, but reviving this movie is a good idea!

I'll Be Back!

A bit fitting.

"Terminator 2 follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and her son John (Furlong) as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator" (wiki)

More advanced. Sounds like some evolution in the mix. And on that logic, naturally, I solute the Governator.

Ooooh, quit sucking in!

Evolution of Home Jay Simpson

Sexual Selection vs. Artificial Selection

"As man can produce and certainly has produced a great result by his methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not Nature effect? Man can act only on external and visible characters: Nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her; and the being is placed under well-suited conditions of life." --Darwin

It is true that men act under unconscious means of selection, and apparently women try to exploit that...
(maybe some more than others)

From an evolutionary standpoint it just makes sense.

Do we need em?

I saw this article and I couldn't help but think of Karl Pilkington... again. It has now inspired me to create a reoccurring segment to this blog... "Do we want em?" Yes, it is a direct rip off from the Ricky Gervais Show with a little bit of a tweak to it. The difference is that I do not feel that "need" is a good question because I would have no idea how to answer that. See, even ideas evolve. Here's the article if you want to read it....

 http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html

Here is also a small segment of Karl's "Do we need em?"

I think it is pretty obvious that if mosquitoes did not exist, evolution would take its course and predators would readjust their diets and the prey would just be eaten/fed on by something else. I see no good in having a mosquito around: They spread disease; they're annoying; according to the article, they are not crucial for crops useful to humans; there is no use for mosquitoes in human life. The only interaction I have had with a mosquito is to try and kill it or repel it with bug spray. Take a look at the links other have gone too...

I won't be going this far.

In short, I do not want them around; however, I do fear that something worse may take its place. The article did bring up an interesting point, that as we inadvertently drive beneficial species to the brink of extinction, such as tuna, we will never be the cause for the eradication of the mosquito. So, do we want em? (Take a vote in the side bar).   

Venus World

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. --Thomas Edison

Venus World: Created and performed by the Earwigs  
(Matt Mankowski, Michael Lang, Spencer Murphy) 

The Flightless Bird

There may be no greater anomaly in nature than the flightless bird.