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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,535350,00.html

oops: ">spiegel interview.

no one (neither here nor there) is linking to errol morris' documentary about the abu ghraib photographs "standard operating procedure"?

">spiegel interview
new yorker talk
screen daily article
guardian opinion
here

morris provides the sort of context that is dourly missing from the general discussion of these events.

(lawn chairs are everywhere, they're everywhere...)

James Luna[sic] ≠ James Lima.

also re-used in:
- Dr. Dog "Fool's Life"
- The Weather "In Denial"
- Goddamn Electric Bill "Lost In The Zoo"
- The Lamps "20 Inches Of Monkey"
- Shins "Fighting in a Sack"

They're not out internationally yet, but you might like the look of a series of monsters of recent Italian invention: i Gormiti. Some nice pix of them here and here, and here.

Here's Daniel Eskils video for Knight Music's "Green River Killer" that uses this to very chuckleworthy effect.

it's a pet peeve of mine. how often in explanations of evolution do you hear about animals adapting? they don't - they are subject to selection.

by not getting the basics across (mainly: 1. how radical a process natural selection is 2. the timescope - millions of years is an *incredible* lot) evolution-misunderstanding is absolutely the norm in most circles.

i'm somewhat surprised this aspect isn't noticed/stigmatised more often.

it's a pet peeve of mine. how often in explanations of evolution do you hear about animals adapting? they don't - they are subject to selection.

by not getting the basics across (mainly: 1. how radical a process natural selection is 2. the timescope - millions of years is an *incredible* lot) evolution-misunderstanding is absolutely the norm in most circles.

i'm somewhat surprised this aspect isn't noticed/stigmatised more often.

oops - affecting.

i so hate it when folks (scientists!) write this way about animal traits, constantly attributing intentionality/agency.
nematodes having an effect on their hosts is "crazy" only if you portray it using such inappropriate terms as "dumb" vs. "clever", "manipulate", "sufficient to convince", etc.

what's in any way "phenomenal" about the presence of an extraneous organism effecting the colour of its host? if i'm not mistaken, that's just chemistry.

sure, it's fun to see nature's complexity, to see the kinds of systems that have evolved, but if scientists continue to speak so misleadingly, it's a small wonder that so many people don't "get" the basics of evolution.