Wonderfully Weird

Welcome to Wonderfully Weird

I want to provide for the strange and the curious, but also to increase scientific literacy. Introducing technical terms and ideas in an understandable and amusing way. Give species overviews with more depth than a wikapidia page and provide context for scientific discoveries and theories that are never truly taught. In The longer Entropic Soup articles I also hope to show how science influences and is influenced by society and politics, since nothing is created or discussed in a vacuum.

More importantly I do this because my friends don’t want to here me rant for hours about the failings of education when it comes to understanding our natural world, and as lovely as it is to here that a baby echidna is called a puggle or puffin chick is called a puffling in the English language, they really don’t care about the digestive system of Anacondas, how resilient a Tardigrade is or how attempting to definitively put dates on every step of the development and evolution of the universe is doomed to end in some sort of failure, but that’s part of the wonder. So I write these essays instead.

I believe whole heartedly that everyone is at a different point in understanding and that as someone with a background in zoology, I have the chance to treat people’s possibly absurd and silly questions with seriousness, because just because a question is silly doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of being answered. I dislike the mentality of “read a book”, or “Look it up” because you cannot research something you do not know about, and you cannot critically analyse information on something you have no bases on.

So, here I am. Writing about the vast world of zoology, and how it is connected to every other science, in a way that will hopefully amuse and intrigue.

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