Thursday, October 20, 2011

I can't even get my students to explain a thing like that.

I know - I know - I already blew my weekly turn to post - but this headline came in over the interwebs and I've been giggling ever since:


Bacteria explain pine barrens ecosystem


I'd include the link, but the story isn't the story, it's all about the headline.

6 comments:

  1. Wombat of the CopierOctober 20, 2011 at 10:56 PM

    Right now there's a biology professor thinking "Bacteria don't have mouths." and an English professor thinking "It doesn't say 'explains'. There should be at least two of them."

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  2. Crazy Math ProfessorOctober 21, 2011 at 12:32 AM

    Isn't the singular of bacteria "bacterium"? I thought it was second declension neuter as opposed to first declension. But I was a course short of a Latin minor so perhaps the Classics profs will chime in.

    Personally I'm a fan of more posts particularly when things have been so slow lately. So two posts in one week doesn't bother me a bit! :)

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  3. Alan From ApexOctober 21, 2011 at 7:48 AM

    Then there's the headline, "Chavez: 'Not a single malignant cell in his body'", which I opened imagining it was Chavez lamenting Gadhafi's death only to find it was a Doc declaring Chavez cancer free.

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  4. Ruby from RichmondOctober 21, 2011 at 9:34 AM

    Sometimes I drive by a sign that reads, "ROACHES RUN WATERFOWL SANCTUARY." I've always felt pride for those roaches who really got their act together, stopped scuttling underfoot, and decided to run a waterfowl sanctuary. I hope they haven't been eaten.

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  5. OvreductdOctober 21, 2011 at 11:15 AM

    Oh, Ruby...hee...

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  6. Contingent CassandraOctober 21, 2011 at 8:40 PM

    I, too, see no problem with more than one post a week, especially when things are on the quiet side (and especially if the posts are different in approach, content, etc. -- or, for that matter, followups to something that generated interest).

    And I wasn't worry that there was only one bacterium, or that it had eyes; I was chuckling.

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