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Saturday, April 13, 2002

Children love Miró sculpture

Here's another photo from my trip to Barcelona. Click on it to see a bigger image.

This statue by Joan Miró stands in front of the Joan Miró Foundation Museum in Barcelona. It was a magnet for all the children waiting in line—they all seemed to want to hang from its thing.

I loved this little girl's polka-dotted red shoes.

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Friday, April 12, 2002

Sneaky male lizards imitate females

The three different morphs of the California Side-Blotched Lizard use three different sexual strategies. Ultra-dominant orange-throated males maintain large territories with multiple females. Monogamous blue-throated males devote all their energies to guarding a single female. Female-mimicking yellow-throated males sneak into orange-throated male territories to mate with their females.

The orange strategy beats the blue, the blue beats the yellow, and the yellow beats the orange in a rock-scissors-paper evolutionary standoff. I leave it to the reader to draw parallels with human society.

Warning: This site contains graphic images of copulating lizards.

Link | Discuss (Thanks Andy!)

Jim's Newt House

Jim Woodring, creator of the wonderfully strange comic Frank, has collaborated with web designer Bob Smolenski to create Jim's Newt House, an interactive Flash animation in the style of Jim's comics.