I’m not your typical science geek that get’s the wood when confronted with a real spicy physics problem or one of those algorithm thingies. Let’s face it, I never had the juice upstairs to understand most of what I was being confronted with in any of my high school science classes. I am prone to fits of fancy when it comes to pretty much any subject matter, however, and the sensational way that the nerds are evolving in their ways of getting the average dope such as myself to at least give their stuff the old peripheral glance is impressive. With all of that said, I’m going to hand the ball off on Tuesdays to a random neat article or site that I dredge up that has some kind of sciency (made up word alert!) aspect to it. Here we go:

THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTION

I love how cranky the experts on the subject sound while debunking the myths that science fiction has inspired regarding the evolution of our bodies. Many times I’ve found myself in over my head in conversation with a science nerd and latched onto some key phrase that they randomly uttered and related it to something I saw on an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation from twenty years ago only to be verbally obliterated by the offended science nerd in a tirade of vitriolic rage.

The article itself was kind of cool in the way that it broached subject matters that I myself have often times touched upon in my head as being sincere hopes for the future such as longer life spans and developing gigantism of the brain. The fact that the people in the know on the subjects react in a violently negative manner when confronted with the sexy subjects of losing that pinkie finger is tempered by the somewhat dubious statement:

“I kind of view us all as eventually having chocolate-covered hair…”

What the hey…? Perhaps that was just poorly phrased. What the article should have asked the science guy was: “What is the Sexiest thing do YOU think will happen with human evolution?” That would really throw the old Doubting Thomas science guy for a loop. I’m sure he gets tired of debunking dumb people’s sensationalist ideas on subjects that they have spent absolutely no time actually studying.

Lets see what you got, smart people. Get all kooky with it and throw some sexy gas on the science fire. Anyone with some real knowledge on the subject is invited to leave a comment about where we are going as a species, but the one caveat is: it has to be sensational, sexy, or nasty!

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