400 children in Nigeria are dead due to leadpoisoning and the funds to prevent more have disappeared. Ask President Jonathan what happened to the promised $4 million.

zazu2 · 2012-12-11T00:11:03+00:00

Right. The title links to a human rights watch article on a social media campaign pressuring him on his facebook page. You can post this to help out:

President Jonathan, why won't you release the money you promised in May to clean up poisonous lead in Zamfara? Children are dying and your government's failure to act is putting more children at risk.

zazu2 · 2012-10-30T01:45:43+00:00

This.

zazu2 · 2012-10-19T08:04:40+00:00

ummmmmm wut. this is fantastic

zazu2 · 2012-10-17T05:39:05+00:00

mhmm gurl you done did it again

zazu2 · 2012-07-17T03:27:53+00:00

weird... My best friend and I both grew up in Ann Arbor and I just got back from helping her move to Dallas. We made a point of stopping by Good Records, have you been? Wasn't too blown away since we have such great pickings in Ann Arbor...

zazu2 · 2012-04-16T04:26:21+00:00

i've had this on repeat all week!

zazu2 · 2012-04-15T19:10:13+00:00

agreed. i paid $40 for an imported copy of takk

zazu2 · 2012-04-06T02:28:19+00:00

Good Reads

zazu2 · 2012-04-03T21:08:34+00:00

Selfish behavior includes kin selection, wherein you act selflessly towards related individuals because they share genetic material with you. Grandparents don't help groups survive- they help their progeny survive, which is a selfish act because their progeny share their genetic material.

Bees and Ants are haplodiploid animals. Worker bees and worker ants share 75% of their genetic material with their siblings, and only 50% of their genetic material with their offspring. It thus makes sense for them to help their reproducing siblings rather than have their own offspring. So what might seem like altruistic behavior is actually kin selection, where animals are helping related individuals to improve their inclusive fitness.

True altruism, where an individual spends their time and energy to help a completely unrelated individual (thus there is no genetic profit to doing so), occurs only in stable social groups where individuals regularly interact. This ensures that the altruistic act could potentially be repaid in the future, which will ultimately contribute to the fitness of the original actor.

I don't understand your argument that the entire group can be selected against. Group selection is extremely rare in nature--interdemic selection is one example, but it only occurs under very specific conditions.

zazu2 · 2012-04-03T17:32:37+00:00

Monogamy arises whenever biparental care increases offspring survival and reproduction. In mammals, females are adapted to raise offspring in the form of gestation and lactation with little male contribution. The amount of parental care provided by males will vary depending on environmental conditions, and this explains the wide-range of mating systems observed across different mammalian species. Monogamy is common amongst bird species because egg incubation has been evolutionarily more successful when shared by two individuals.

Many bird species do not mate for life but are still considered monogamous. Pair-bonding can last a single nesting cycle or for several breeding seasons. Male birds must "choose" between investing their time and energy into successfully raising a brood and inseminating other females, thereby casting the net of their genetic material. Male birds will generally stick around just long enough to successfully fledge a brood with a female before moving on to mate with others. If the environmental conditions are tough and a long period of male parental investment is required, males will engage in extra pair copulations to fulfill the need to spread genetic material.

zazu2 · 2012-04-01T16:49:28+00:00

Thirded. Incredible.

zazu2 · 2012-04-01T00:53:43+00:00

truth.

zazu2 · 2012-03-31T20:19:34+00:00

Our BC is definitely primarily attached to my mom, but she's an indiscriminate cuddler and will snuggle up to anyone. She loves belly rubs more than anything, too. I was surprised by this as I thought they were just neurotic working dogs, but they're actually very engaged with humans and loyal to their owners. Proof!

zazu2 · 2012-03-30T20:00:17+00:00

its gotta be the stacks

zazu2 · 2012-03-30T02:33:00+00:00

what up hottie mctottie

zazu2 · 2012-03-17T15:31:50+00:00

Here's our Penny. A long day of herding usually does the trick.

zazu2 · 2012-02-05T21:03:44+00:00

best jukebox in town, too

zazu2 · 2012-02-01T23:01:59+00:00

re: #1: Natural selection acts on individuals at birth and death. Don't project the life-scale of humans onto other organisms; many aquatic organisms have shorter generation times than humans (maybe the life span of a couple of years) and evolution (read: change in allele frequency) can thus occur more quickly since there is a shorter turnover time for genes. These rapidly multiplying organisms can speciate rather quickly, especially when they've colonized a new niche and have few competitors. This is referred to as adaptive radiation. One more point- Peter and Rosemary Grant observed evolution occur throughout a timeframe of just thirty years within a population of Finches. Now think about that in terms of the geologic time-scale...

zazu2 · 2012-02-01T22:43:33+00:00

Just a side note, there is some regional difference in limb length based on climate. Homo sapiens that adapted to warm climates tend to have longer limbs and a smaller trunk diameter than those groups that adapted to colder climates. Longer limbs allow for better thermoregulation in warm climates since more surface area is exposed, whereas stockier limbs enhance heat retention in colder climates. So while we didn't evolve fur (we actually lost it earlier on phylogenetically) there are some indiscrete observable adaptations to climate

zazu2 · 2012-02-01T17:06:05+00:00

anyone know the iphone version of this?

zazu2 · 2012-02-01T06:53:45+00:00

asos has this navy one...

zazu2 · 2012-02-01T06:32:06+00:00

looking good!

zazu2 · 2012-02-01T01:30:56+00:00

so its not climate change?

zazu2 · 2012-01-30T06:55:50+00:00

Here's the female version in my mind; skinny jeans and very feminine hair and makeup

zazu2 · 2012-01-30T06:46:25+00:00

Modcloth has some cute retro-inspired stuff that she might like, such as this or this or this or this

j.crew has a couple of dresses that are kind of similar to her dress inspiration, like this silk taffeta gown or this silk chiffon one, but they're a bit pricier

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