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Starbucks seems to be off the deep end here, and slightly less offensively here.

If you think your coffee shouldn’t be saying that to the masses, take your words here or leave a comment.

This is certainly not new news to the scientific community, but Carl Zimmer writes an interesting article about it anyways.more

Carl so eloquently states in his recent writing, The Sixty-Million-Year Virus, how our genome contains 8% junk viral DNA that is important to our evolution, as well as shows a positive link between our common ancestry with other primates. Chalk it up to one more piece of confirming evidence that speaks to a world view that many ignorant people fight so hard to keep out of our classrooms.

This article seems well suited for the non-science educated public, a talent that Carl seems to amaze me at all too often.

I am going to try to make it a point to mention some of the nicer articles that I find online about evolution. I am doing this for several reasons: my own archival purposes, the fact that it is timely, and that evolution (specifically how it is played out in society/politics) is a very interesting subject to most people. So here are the first two articles on my new list:

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