Alert Reader “minouette” alerted us to the following tidbit from The Independent:

In December 2006, Wisconsin hunter Rick Lisko ran over and killed a seven-legged hermaphroditic deer. “It’s a pretty weird deer,” he said before eating it, later adding: “It was tasty.”

The Portage Daily Register has the full story:

Warden Doug Bilgo of the state Department of […]

Hello there, dear neglected readers. As you may have noticed, it’s been a while since we’ve shared our most intimate scientifical thoughts with you. But allow us to explain. You see, it’s not really our fault. The thing is, there hasn’t been one single shred of science news to tell you about in over two […]

This one reminds me of Disney’s predilection for depicting jazz musicians as monkeys. (Even when the same film is transplanted to Broadway.)
>> Got Rhythm? Animals Do Too | Discovery News

In a finding sure to revolutionize the bedroom politics of millions of couples the world over, researchers have discovered that women can develop allergies to god’s only chowder:

The culprit is semen, reports David Resnick, acting director of the Division of Allergy at The New York Presbyterian Hospital. It isn’t sperm but accompanying proteins that can […]

AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH!
I thought Seed Magazine’s asshattery was bad, but this takes the motherfucking cake and donkeyfelches it up the urethra of GOD ALMIGHTY:
(and it’s from the BBC?!)
Human species ‘may split in two’
Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years’ time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said.

Forget, for a moment, that this man […]

Our Kiwi compadre over at Beware of the Dogma tagged us with a Book Meme. Hence all the nonsense that follows.
More Book Memes
From people we respect:
PZ Myers of Pharyngula
JD Stemwedel of Adventures in Ethics in Science
From people we don’t respect:
Brittle Crazy Glass sez The Shadow of the Almighty is the most important book in her […]

NASA says a 10-inch “meteroid” hit the moon, causing a rare fireball and a massive new crater.

(click to enlarge)
The FrinkTank would like to issue a slight correction: When you gets it on in space, real dirty-like, you can’t make an omelette without breakin’ a few eggs, know what I’m sayin’?
And 10 inches? More like a […]

Even years after the Bomb humbled their imperial desires, the Japanese still have what it takes to rule the world. Their incredibly imaginative hentai is more than enough to fell the ‘Tankers with an onanistic fit–but how will they humble the less-perverted masses? With Reality TV, of course, honed and buffed to gleaming scientific perfection:

Sure, […]

Mr. T’s insane toughness is the stuff of legend–his rep is carved in granite, quartzite, or possibly even rhyolite, yo. But wait…no…this can’t be true:
Several years ago Mr T - real name Lawrence Tureaud - got into hot water with his neighbours after cutting down trees on the estate, claiming they aggravated his allergies.
Wait, […]