Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC, but Professor Ceiling Cat asked me elsewhere to say what I thought of Peter Hoffman’s ‘Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos’. I am not a scientist, but I found it excellent: stimulating, informative and clear, and vedry much superior to Addy Pross’s ‘What is Life?’ which really did not keep its promise. Hoffman does a very good job of explaining how tiny molecular machines use chaos to create order. I would also say that his book complicates claims about determinism and about human beings and other animals being ‘meat computers’…
Swiss Army Cat, now with cat food can opener. (“Open the can, or I open you!”)
But, “only” five sharp blades? I don’t think a cat can have a dull edge.
The one non-sharp blade must be the tail!
As a creaky, achy 60-year-old, I would love to spend a day as a cat. It must be marvelous to have that kind of flexibility and comfort with your body.
Awwww so cute!
Its a trap. 🙂
COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC, but Professor Ceiling Cat asked me elsewhere to say what I thought of Peter Hoffman’s ‘Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos’. I am not a scientist, but I found it excellent: stimulating, informative and clear, and vedry much superior to Addy Pross’s ‘What is Life?’ which really did not keep its promise. Hoffman does a very good job of explaining how tiny molecular machines use chaos to create order. I would also say that his book complicates claims about determinism and about human beings and other animals being ‘meat computers’…
LOL
And I thought my cat Fizzy slept in unusual positions!
Not slpng. Duing xrsizes. Wrk thut bdy!