Välkommen tillbaka

 

Credit: El Golli Mohamed

Har tydligen inte setts till på 84 år...i Sverige. Väldigt vanlig i Nordafrika? 

Ökenlöparen lockade tusentals till Öland

Thank god for Hollywood

 

These (admittedly funny) clips show how "Jurassic Park" would have looked like if the "raptors" (really Deinoychus) had been "scientifically accurate". Maybe this wasn´t known back in 1993, but the raptors are still scientifically inaccurate in the new movies of the franchise...thank god! Since dinosaurs apparently looked really cringey in real life, like some kind of big peafowl or something?! 

Bring back Boomer science!  

Delfinologi

 

I själva verket var det exakt ingen alls som "förstod" detta, men okej, det tyder väl på att Nooshi Dadgostar faktiskt behöver "kommunikatörer". Eller att Ida Gabrielsson gör det...

Geezus. Det här börjar bli lika dumt som under Gudrun Schyman. Eller faktiskt ännu dummare. Kremlologin övergår i delfinologi. 

Svaret om delfinbilden: "Det förstår nog alla"

Pons asinus

 

- So how *does* bhoga become yoga?
- Dude, you´ve been a monk for too long!

If your religion includes a talking donkey (viz. Judaism and Christianity) or a talking man-horse with wings (viz. Islam), you have no leg to stand on if mocking Hinduism for believing in a talking equid all its own...

Ragu

Måtte Krishna förbanna dig, fräcke avgudadyrkare! 

Edward Blom gjorde ragu av Gynnings påfågel: "Riktigt gott"

The day of her wrath

 

The demise of the (non-avian) dinosaurs was truly apocalyptic and even worse than we imagined, essentially hell on earth. It seems the Destructrix is a hard task-master...

Fear of a fungal planet

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaargh...

Seriously now...

 

This is an extremely silly story, since a Golden Retriever *isn´t a fucking guard dog*. Period!

Friendly "guard dog" greets alleged San Diego burglar with toy in mouth

The forbidden country

 

Forbidden cryptids in *North* Korea?! Clearly a counter-revolutionary provocation, since it doesn´t mention the famed unicorn lair outside Pyongyang, LOL. 

Makabert

 

Credit: JM Ligero Loarte

Källan är en avhoppare, men även den amerikanska militären undersökte ju om djur kunde ha övernaturliga förmågor. Och människor! Så visst kan detta vara sant. Och sanslöst. 

Makabert experiment skulle testa kaniners övernaturliga förmågor

Second breakfast

 

Another video on the Homo florensiensis situation. Recent research suggests that the "Hobbit" might not be a dwarfed Homo erectus (sensu stricto) but some kind of pre-human or almost-human. Perhaps an australopith (sensu latto)? I´m not surprised. I had a hunch in this direction already seven years ago. So can we go home now? Second breakfast, guys!

Bigfoot evidence

Mematha-Gaṇapataye Namaḥ

 

Or is it Mahodgaja-Gaṇapataye Namaḥ? So I asked Gemini to make a picture of Ganesha as a mammoth, rather than as an elephant. This was the result. Would you worship god if he was a mammoth? Interesting question, I suppose! And instead of venerating Baby Krishna, how about doing it with a dwarf elephant? I know, I should go to sleep...

Faking parakeets

Red gorillas in the Congo? Yes, red. The Strait of Hormuz sea-serpent? Yes, the Strait of Hormuz. A faked video of surviving Carolina Parakeets, perhaps in the Okefenokee swamp? I admit I never heard *these* particular tall tales before! The parakeet video was the funniest part. The guy who "discovered" it (or rather faked it) was a very colorful character! Would be big on YouTube if he had lived today, LOL. 

The Great White Bug

 

This seems to be an entertaining site, might explore it more this weekend!

Giant bugs in Canada

Well, akshually, para-dimes are good, akshually

 

A little reminder. A propos the recent blog post on Sabine Hossenfelder and the role of mathematics in the hard (oh-so-hard) sciences.

Quantum questions

Trojans

 

Overheard on the web: "We finally found the solution to the Fermi paradox". Note that the AI is called Evil! Intelligent design, anyone? 

AI creates 16 new viruses from scratch

The other monkey

 

Something new is always coming out of Africa. Or something old. Primordially old. Muh-hah-hah! 

Garuda in the sky

 

Our man Thomas has discovered the Orissan (?) speculation that the Kali Yuga will end in 2032. The clips above are from an incident earlier this year, when an eagle apparently grabbed one of the flags atop the Jagannath temple in Puri, sparking a lot of speculation online. Bad omen? Or a good sign, since the eagle could be interpreted as a Garuda?   

Stay alive until 2032

The incident is discussed here:

Eagle circles Jagannath temple with flag

Nandu på rymmen

 

Credit: Bernard Dupont

En glad nyhet? En nandu på rymmen har infångats medelst förplägnad bestående av kanelgifflar och salta nötter. Påfågeln på bondgården är glad över att ha fått tillbaka sin amigo. Skåne 2026. Knickarp, Blentarp och Häckeberga är nu på allas läppar. Och kartor?

Visst, det är lite nyhetstorka över den här historien. Men lite glad blir man ju över att Alex fick sina favoritkakor tillbaka. 

Fast varför rymde strutsfågeln egentligen...? 

Strutsfågel på rymmen

Likweli

 

Credit: Daniel Rosengren

En glad nyhet? Kanske. Eller kanske inte. Likweli-apan har upptäckts av sina evolutionära kusiner... 

Sensationell apa hemlighölls i fem år