No Sunday Science Today

You should all be diligently working on your submissions for COTEB, you scurvy dogs. And I've been too busy press-ganging to whip up a post for this Sunday. Alas, that means even the heroic crew members who already made their contributions suffer a lack of sensational science this week.

See how it is when you make a pirate lawyer cry?

I'll give you one little science tidbit: according to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, the most likely explanation for why Europeans had nasty epidemic diseases while Native Americans didn't was that Europeans had more livestock. Makes perfect sense, really, considering so many of our diseases come from animals, and is a concept easily illustrated:


Yup.