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• Fetuses and roundworms: more alike than you might think

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-20 • ( 11 )

  [image source] I’ve been following the Feministe thread about a little girl with a parasitic twin. The discussion meandered into a wrangling about whether or not a fetus can be thought about as a parasite. Coincidentally, the BBC now reports… Read More ›

• Nigersaurus taqueti: prehistoric fernmower

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-20 • ( 1 )

  For those of us who grew up in the 1970s, the dinosaur world is barely recognisable nowadays. Remember Brontosaurus? The NYT and Project Exploration detail what is known so far of a newly-discovered dinosaur that roamed Niger back when the… Read More ›

• Greetings from Middle Perth

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-19 • ( 2 )

  From StrangeMaps comes this map of Australia, Middle-Earth style: “One Ring to Rule Them All, Mate”. I forget who once pondered the impossibility of believing Shakespeare spoken in an Australian accent. Maybe it’s the implied anachronism, for in Shakespeare’s time… Read More ›

• Vestigial indigeniety in the coloniser’s eye: from useless to nuisance

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-17 • ( 13 )

  It’s the Day of Action against the Northern Territory invasion. I’ve been toying with a different approach from my usual snarkrants. I’ve been exploring the coloniser world view, getting into the brains of those who are perpetuating the ongoing invasion…. Read More ›

• International Day of Action/Call for Solidarity – tomorrow

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-16 • ( 2 )

  A reminder that tomorrow is the International Day of Action on the Northern Territory Intervention. Talk, write, blog, protest, call, donate, join: help the push towards a consultative, respectful, productive reconciliation process, instead of the Howard Government’s invasion and recolonisation…. Read More ›

• Evpsych justifications of boobie bongs; and in which The Portly Dyke speaks wisdom

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-16 • ( 3 )

  This Shakesville thread, “For the Discerning Gentleman: You, Too, Can Decorate Your Life With Disembodied Boobs “ has been a laff riot. The thread devolved into a circle with several men at the centre, the men shouting about how they… Read More ›

• Bobby’s Dairy: “Your baby cannot have your milk.”

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-15 • ( 5 )

  Moving house is sucking all my blogergy, so here’s a tale for you. Trish and Bobby. [Image source] Background to this story: Bobby was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This is a congenital defect in which the left side… Read More ›

• There was an old shark who swallowed a fish

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-12 • ( 1 )

  I dunno why she swallowed that fish, Perhaps she’ll per-ish. There was an old shark who swallowed an amphibian Eschewing nibblin’, she swallowed that amphibian! She swallowed the amphibian to catch the fish I don’t know why she swallowed that… Read More ›

• Rape, booze, consent, and concern-trolling: The law can’t “turn you into a rapist”.

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-10 • ( 25 )

  [Please read the note at the bottom of this post before commenting.] The Daily Telegraph reports: “Law ‘turns boys into rapists’ “ For other takes on this, check out Shakesville, abyss2hope, and The Curvature. Gah. I’ve been holding off blogging… Read More ›

• 47th Carnival of Feminists is up

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-09

  The 47th Carnival of Feminists is up at Ornamenting Away. Check it out.