Actually, I like to think that when we domesticate animals, we change their environment in such a way that the factors triggering the release of certain biological signals that make them feral. Rather than genetic, I think the change is mostly phenotypical.

Ahh, yes, you mean like Kim Jong Il? What about that monkey who gave us Bushisms? The fact is, there is smart, and then there is not-so-smart-but-we-still-think-they-are-smart-because-evolution-made-us-this-way. Need more examples? Why does Celeb TV rule the media?

In other news, the geographic north is moving eastwards relative to the magnetic north pole. Also, the magnetic south pole is moving eastwards. The geographic south pole is ALSO moving eastwards. Don't you just love spherical geometry?

I personally do not opine that there will be worrying change in our microbial ecology. Westerners have been consuming acidic foods for ages, including acidic tea, acidic coffee, acidic meat, and more recently, acidic soda. These foods alter the pH of our digestive tract, and correspondingly, our microbial ecology. But hey, we've survived. It can't be worse than an explosion in obese people, can it?

Yes, but the beauty of approximation is that as long as you don't extrapolate (which is highly unlikely to be necessary here), as long as it looks good enough like a power law, it follows a power law as far as you are concerned.

Also, for the English Grammar as Mathematical Notation impaired, what the relation states is this: n = p^{-2.5} where n is the number of casualties. I was confused as to why 2.5 was positive.

Wouldn't the best shape be a tetrahedron with a sphere engraved inside? the arms and exterior structure of the tetrahedron will allow for a rigid skeleton and optimum angles to deflect flak and radar and big arms to maximize the displacement of engines from the center of mass. The sphere is good in withstanding internal pressures, and can act as a centrifuge, not to mention containing atmosphere.

JARKA (OP) - Indonesian octopuses have discovered rubber flippers that attach themselves onto vertebrate animals that transport them across water - unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of intelligence in synthetic tools.

The origamians have an interesting sub-solution. Provided that there are an even number of slices, and all slices contain the middle of the pizza, if we enumerate the slices, the total area of the even slices will equal the total area of the odd slices.

Personally, I cut my pizza into 42 slices in a grid pattern. That way, once I'm done with eating the entire pizza, I have the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything snugly nestled within my belly.

A newspaper is several sheets of paper that have news printed on them. Compare television news, Google news, blogs and CMSs that provide news.

Oh, so Wikipedia is reaching the end of its logistics curve. It has been growing exponentially the last few years. Someday or another, there has to eventually be a time where the Wikipedian population explosion meets its consequences.

Firstly, call Microsoft Microsoft. Secondly, porting free software to non-free OSes is good, for it gives people who are stuck using Windows a choice. It also raises awareness about FOSS projects. Since when were these people sucking up to Microsoft?

Then lets' port it to KPD and call it the KIMP!

Other groups have aleready made games out of protein folding puzzles.