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RE: It's high time we had a competition!
July 6, 2013 at 12:27 pm
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This from the BAH competition might be fun to do.
"The first-ever BAH! (Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses) will treat an audience at MIT to seven lectures on internally coherent, even convincing — but ultimately hilariously absurd — explanations of evolutionary adaptation.
The event was inspired by a joke in the science-obsessed Web comic "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal" (SMBC), which is co-sponsoring the festival, along with the comic's publisher Breadpig (also behind the science-geek comic XKCD), and the MIT Lecture Series. In the comic, a scientist imagines a prehistoric advantage to punting newborns into neighboring villages. [No Duh! The 10 Most Obvious Science Findings]
The ridiculous argument, made in absolute sincerity by the illustrated scientist, posits that infants are hairless to minimize drag, "football-shaped" to maximize puntability, and filled with soft bones to cushion the impact. Airmailing infants would have allowed early humans to spread their genes, the scientist argues to great applause, earning her a trophy of "Darwin looking doubtful."
http://www.livescience.com/28826-bad-evo...pid=520697
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RE: It's high time we had a competition!
November 9, 2013 at 7:09 am
did y'all just do a competition. without me or somethin?
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RE: It's high time we had a competition!
November 9, 2013 at 6:23 pm
Boy, I suck at this competition. I completely forgot this thread even existed. I lose.
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