YIL Presents: Mork & Darwin Volume 2
After a tremendous response to Volume 1 of our Mork & Darwin series, we’re back with round two. This week we ask you to carefully determine the following: which is more stupefying, Bicentennial Man or the Dumbo octopus?
Dumbo octopus photo is from Claire Nouvian’s THE DEEP.
YIL Presents: Mork & Darwin, Volume the First
Today, in honor of Darwin Year, we bring you a new weekly YIL feature: Mork & Darwin.
Mork & Darwin is the brainchild of YIL friend Will. He posits that for every discovery of an incredibly odd head-scratcher of a deep sea creature, there is an equally odd head-scratcher of a Robin Williams movie. Mork & Darwin, now a regular YIL feature, puts that hypothesis to the test. Each week, Will plans to present us with a perfect pairing of ocean dweller and Williams film. Your job is to vote for which is more stupefying.
Without further ado, I give you Mork & Darwin, Volume the First:
Benthocodon jelly photo is from Claire Nouvian’s THE DEEP.
Darwin Year (party time).
Proof that natural selection is an imperfect science (Photo credit: Thomas Meggs)
If you’re into Charles Darwin, and who isn’t?, this is your year. In fact, 2009 is both the 200th anniversary of Chuck D’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. You’re probably thinking I’m pretty smart for knowing this, but really I just read this New York Times blog post. Apparently they’re coming out with the first feature-length dramatic film focusing on Darwin this Fall, Creation, staring Paul Bettany as the great scientist himself and his real-life wife Jennifer Connelly as his on-screen baby mama (I’m guessing the real Mrs. D wasn’t quite this foxy, due to the whole rudimentary dental care, lack of Pantene Pro-V and that sort of thing, but you gotta sell tickets somehow).
Besides the film, I stumbled across this party in New York, where it seems like people celebrated by honoring the Father of Evolution in a slightly different way: They got naked and cuddled and pretended to be on the Galapagos Islands or something. Looking through the photos (via Flavorwire), I learned that human evolution has slowed to a crawl since Char Dar first laid down his treatise. There’s no other explanation for the fact that these ne’er-do-wells are able to copulate and propagate.
