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• CO2: We Call it Life
  Ha! This is great. Let’s apply their logic to fecal matter: We excrete it out, plants take it in as fertilizer. So why not dump it everywhere? Some call it “crap.” We call it life!
• Top 10 evolutionary biologists of all time
  More list-making, courtesy of Razib. This time we get more than the Rushmore four, and we’ve narrowed it down to a field.
• The dawn chumans
  John Hawks takes a bite out of the “humans and chimps interbred” paper.
• On AIDS 25th Anniversary, the Media Get the Story Right, But the Date Wrong
  Journalist Gabriel Rotello tells the politically significant and nearly unknown story of the first mention of AIDS. Hint: You already missed the 25th anniversary.
• You may be an intelligent design supporter if…
  “40. You always refer to the Designer in the masculine singular, except when you think someone might try to prove that you’re a creationist.” Womp womp. (via Dispatches)

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Originally published May 18, 2006