Inappropriate Talk Like a Pirate Day Comments

I was unable to talk like a pirate this week, but fortunately Zeldman collected up a top 12 list for me. His commenters also contribute some very good ones, including a Shakespeare/pirate mashup:
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t, ya scurvy motherfucker. ARRRRRRRR.”
Enjoy!
Also, on the “something I never thought in a [...]

Ethiopian Flies: Part 2

Some time back I reported on an effort to use sterile male releases to control disease spread by tsetse fly in Ethiopia–and why it probably was a doomed effort.
Another bit of evidence in today’s Science: a letter pointing out that flies reared in colonies are inadvertently selected to be most successful in the laboratory, not [...]