Yes, I think it was Ed Yong who tweeted the following:

"Next, Nick Davies will probably reveal that Murdoch and Brooks threw the owl into that window..."

I only came here to comment that nature is definitely not responsible here. This would be "artificial selection".

Guess a few people beat me to it, though.

How enormously creepy. It's like an automated furry converter.

Idil,

You're right about biomagification, but eating carnivores is ok as long as you avoid the toxic concentrations of vitamin A in the carnivore's liver.

Where'd you get the idea that eating carvnivores is like cannibalism? Man, that was dumb. We eat pigs all the time- pigs are frequently used as models in GI and heart medical research because their hearts and digestive system is nearly identical to that of a human's. And on top of all that, they're omnivores, just like humans. Are we cannibals when we eat pigs?

The real reason people typically don't eat carnivores is because they're too expensive to farm economically. In some countries people eat dogs, though. Westerners find this practice vile, but it's certainly not cannibalism.

You know the lampshade/Cone of Shame/e-collar that dogs and cats wear after sustaining an injury and going to the vet, the collar that keeps the animal from chewing the affected area?

The official term for the Cone of Shame is the Elizabethan collar, named after these foolish looking aristocratic get-ups.

If wearing sweatpants means you've given up on life, this product is is the equivalent of jerking off and not bothering to change your underwear.

Not to mention that even paleolithic people some 25,000 years ago still made attempts to wash themselves with items other than plain waterin order to be cleaner and smell better- pounded soaproot, fruit extracts, etc. Even tallow and animal fat were being used to make soap back then. Because the cavemen didn't want to smell like gross hippies.

Not all food service people use gloves. And not washing with soap is a great way to spread your flu and cold viruses and god knows what else to the entire vicinity.

I went to a CocoRosie show once where this raging hippy girl in the audience clearly had never used soap in her life. She smelled like not-so-fresh. Like rotting tuna. There was a wide swath of space around her because nobody could stand to be near here. Smelly people who don't use soap or shampoo don't know how much they stink because they're used to their own smell and most people are too embarrassed to tell them to their face.

Creationist crap. Why do you hate evolution?

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2075#comic

I'm a girl, and I would have loved a bomb-shaped bath bomb as a kid. Good thing my parents weren't rigid in gender-specific toys and wouldn't have purchased such a bath bomb only for my brother.