Category Archives: Animal news

What is wrong with this insane quote?

Here’s this guy from Texas, name of Asher Watkins, a “big-game” hunter.  So right away you’ve braced yourself for something bad, given that the sentence contains the words “guy,” “Texas,” “big-game,” and “hunter.” And he’s a real estate executive, specializing … Continue reading

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A discovery about male fruit flies and sex. Applicable to human males?

From Harpers June 2025 Findings: Male fruit flies seek out alcohol because it makes them more attractive to female flies and more successful at mating, not, as was previously theorized, because they are depressed about not yet having mated.

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Weird weird Findings from Harper’s: coyotes, vasectomy regret, ketamine, Mars’s rocks, political statement eating

The Findings are always factual. Harper’s even provides cites for them, just in case you can’t believe or understand what they’re telling you. It isn’t that the Findings are getting weirder. They’ve always been weird. Maybe it’s my attitude toward … Continue reading

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