Debunking the myth of forward-looking carnivores


I had a conversation last weekend, can’t remember how it kicked off but it was said that we (that is, humans) are born carnivorous. I said no we’re not, we’re born omnivorous. At that point, the person I was chatting with waved a hand in front of her face and pointed at her eyes. “Eyes at the front,” she said. “Not on the sides.”

This is an old, tired myth that is still supported in some scientific circles in defiance of the facts not fitting the theory even among today’s lifeforms, let alone the fossil record.

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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

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The dirty lucre of British Gas


British Gas could only become more immoral if it started snatching babies or producing serial killers. Annual profits rocketed from £95m in 2006 to £571m in 2007. Centrica, British Gas’ parent company, announced group pre-tax profits for last year of £2.1bn. Last month, British Gas increased charges for gas and electricity by 15%. Every winter elderly people in their hundreds of thousands die in Britain because they can’t afford to put the heating on. Despicable. But it’s even more disgusting that our government doesn’t do something to end this obscene profiteering.

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Thursday, February 21st, 2008

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