Who Mammothed Better?

When was the last time you rated your Mammoth? Why, you might ask? Well, I have encountered two museum quality models of mammoths in my adventures, and I have to ask myself, "Who Mammothed Better?"

Unfortunately there isn't a Mammoth Westminster Kennel Club judging the worthiness of the world's mammoth specimen, so i figure I should turn it over to the most impartial of voting groups out there, the internet. So I present the question, is this Mammoth Hot or Not?

Does the model mammoth of the Paige Museum at the La Brea Tarpits strike you as hot or not?

Or does the mammoth of the Royal British Columbia Museum rate hotter or notter?

I have my choice for which one is the sexier beast. And that would be the Canadian one. But what about you dear readers? LA Mammoth just seems too Californian. Maybe it's the hipster, mop-top, skull cap that this creature has going. It's just too groomed for me. The BC Mammoth has a certain rugged northwestern vibe about it. 

The choices we have to make...

Of course we all know that of all wooly mammoths out there, there is only one with enough face and fame to get all our hearts a flutter and that is Mr. Snuffleupagus. Let's be honest, his mammoth eyelashes can stop hearts. But if you throw Snuffy aside, who would it be? Who Mammothed Better?

From the Mr. Snuffleupagus Wiki Entry

All in a Name...

Image via Wikipedia

Today in my class I learned a lot of neat stuff.

For example, the IUPAC is not the same as Tupac but they are kind of alike in many strange ways. In fact they are quite different. The IUPAC is an acronym for the International Union for the Pure and Applied Chemistry. Tupac was a rapper. The IUPAC supports lots of scientific projects; Tupac rapped about the projects. The IUPAC works toward the creation of scientific reports and creating records; Tupac had his own collection of police reports and a criminal record.

Basically, the list goes on for some time.

So before you pull out your album of "All Eyez on Me," think about where our world would be without Chemistry.

It would probably be in the same place where creationists dwell. Which I think is in Kentucky. Which I can only imagine is a sad place. 

Analysis Complete: Interpreting my MRI

Top research scientists in specializing in neuro-anatomy have finally sent over clearly labeled regions of my brain as part of a collaborative project between the Wonderful World of Clutter and the Brain Science Institute of Applied Scientific Labeling. Basically, they are an organization that likes to look at pictures of scientific things and apply scientific labels. I figured they could provide the best analysis of the regions of my brain given that their work is highly regarded.
Aside from informing me that my skull is oddly misshapen in various parts, They have also identified key regions of interests to both me and avid readers of this blog. Some of the images may be a bit hard to read, so please click on the brain scans to see an enlarged view.

This first image clearly maps some of the large area where bad ideas come from, a highly specialized region that mirrors the bad idea area that is dedicated solely to the love of taxidermy, and a region in the primitive brain consumed by random song lyrics.

This next large, highly-ridged area is where general concern over Evil Monkeys is centered. It is hypothesized that this area has become so specialized in order to interpret and avoid the warning signs of Evil Monkey interference. While speech and language might normally be centered here in most people, apparently my vocal warnings about the Simian Kabal has formed its own specialized region that overwhelms the power of speech. Thus leading to one of my central theses, Evil Monkeys are everywhere. Good thing the MRI revealed that I have a latent ability for laser vision. I just need to focus my attention more to make it work. At the region of the Arbor Vitae, we find more clutter.

The last brain scan reveals a large central area dedicated solely to the knowledge of comic books. Right above the medulla is a region that is triggered by negative stimuli such as the terror of butterflies and moths. This area is responsible for the "fight of flight" response. Fight or Flight from butterflies and moths. Useless Historical Trivia and More Clutter take up other areas of the brain.

This is a Brain on Clutter

Have you ever wondered what happens to the brain when it is filled with clutter? When random pieces of trivia, useless knowledge of comic book lore continuity, information on fruit and vegetables, useless historical figures and time lines forms the grooves and fissures of that bowl of pudding inside one's skull.

These raw images have not been completely analyzed yet, but soon this will be completed and a full understanding of of what these precision MRIs of my brain will mean.

Mutants of Nature

The conjoined twins occur when a cell a fertilized egg begins to divide but then does not completely separate. Often, this process renders any potential fetus nonviable, however, in this case, a conjoined Gummy Bear was birthed. It just proves that the Gummy Bear womb/matrix is a complex entity that the biologists have yet to fully understand

A conjoined Gummy Bear occurs about 1 in every 500 Gummy Bears. While a solid color pair is the most common form of conjoined Gummy Twins, on occasion it is possible to find a pairs of non-similar colors. The cross-colored conjoined Gummys are often culled due to societal pressures.

Other food animals experience conjoining. The Marshmallow Peep is the prime example of this. However, this is not truly a case of conjoined birth. During the developmental process, Peeps fail to undergo a specific process of apoptosis. For those unfamiliar, apoptosis, or programed cell death, is the process that removes the webbing from our fingers and toes in the womb. This cell death rids the body of extra tissue that was used as an initial framework in the womb for growing a body.

The Peeps lack of distinct features is the clear sign that apoptosis did not occur. A little known fact about the Peep is that the central peep is actually the only one with consciousness. If apoptosis had occurred the adjacent Peeps would have sloughed off in the Peep womb/matrix and then been recycled creating an uber-peep.

Science Made Easy...Dinosaurs

Sometimes I truly believe that I missed my calling in life. I really should have been a naturalist, or taken up a career in in biological illustrations, or studied dinosaurs...

I must have made this when I was in fifth grade or there about.

Somewhere, I have a sequence of drawings I did of creatures I made up for different environments. All of the drawings were inspired by the illustrations of Dougal Dixon and Golden Guide Books . When I find these, they will be posted.