Clipe do Dia nº 451

Hoje a Morena vem! E quando ela vem eu vejo desenhos assim.

Clipe do Dia nº 450

Fazia tempo que eu não tinha uma dica do Alemão.

Sagan

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
- Carl Sagan, "In the Valley of the Shadow", 1996

Clipe do Dia nº 498

Com a Morena é sempre "Life, love and laughter."

Clipe do Dia nº 497

 (não consegui incorporar)

Pata de Elefante - Soltaram! (Eu queria postar a "Diga-me com quem andas e te direi se eu vou junto (Gustavo Telles)", http://youtu.be/0zApnNN8ZHY, mas não consegui incorporar.)

Clipe do Dia nº 497

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club lançou disco novo. Sempre uma boa notícia.

The supreme end of reproduction

When Samuel Butler, that sharp critic of Darwin, remarked that "a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg," he may have spoken more profoundly than he thought. For in a very real sense the developed organism is no more than a vehicle for its genotype. At least it is from such a perspective on the hen - as only handmaid to the egg - that we get out best insights into the nature of its adaptive organization. Procurement of food and avoidance of death are proximate ends in relation to which many aspects of the hen's organization are directed. But they are not ends in themselves: these ends (and the fragments of organization that serve them) have been perpetuated because they are in turn necessary means to the supreme end of reproduction, which is the sole agent of perpetuation.
- Coling Pittendrigh (1958) "Adaptation, Natural Selection, and Behavior", p. 398