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Lady Gaga's Birthday Today How Will She Celebrate

Lady Gaga is 25 today, born on the 28th of March 1986, but how will the singing, dancing, fashionista celebrate her birthday. In the build up to her birthday on twitter she tweeted to all her fans that "The sweetest tweet! You are all the present I need in the world." 

Okay so how exactly is she celebrating that's what you all came here to know, well rumor has it that she will be listening to an extended version of John Cage's 4' 33, the extended version lasts several hours. Once that is completed she will then meet with Bear Grylls and travel to Yosemite national park and begin a six hour trek in search of an Elk carcass and then boil the elks eye ball in a geyser. Once this has been accomplished she will return home and watch Stepbrothers, her favourite movie in the whole wide world. Then to cap off the day she is going to slide down 32 steps into a strawberry cheese-cake. Happy Birthday Lady Gaga have a great day and enjoy your festivities.  

Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

Today is the 202 birthday of Charles Darwin, one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of last millennium. But why is Darwin so important, so famous? When most people hear Darwin they think of 'evolution', 'natural selection',and although relevant but frequently mis-attributed 'survival of the fittest.  What many other people don't know is that another man Alfred Russel Wallace independently proposed his own theory of evolution by natural selection which prompted to Darwin to publish his theory as well. What the theory of natural selection did for science in particular biology is akin to what Jesus Christ did for Christianity. The theory gave a framework by which almost all biology could be interpreted, explained and understood. It also had an immeasurable impact on religion, history, sociology, psychology and even literature, amongst many other disciplines. I'll just take this moment to point out how simple the theory is as well. Natural selection is the process whereby certain characteristics or traits (genes essentially) become more or less frequent in a population due to reproductive and survival pressures in the ancestors of that population. As time goes by a certain subset of a population may adopt a different a different trait compared to the rest of the population, eventually this can lead to the formation of a new species. It is by this mechanism humans, chimpanzees and other primates separated from their common ancestor. The process is remarkably simple but has given rise to the abundance of complex life that now occupies the biosphere of the earth. 

Unfortunately, although the evidence for the theory of natural selection is irrefutable ranging from paleontology to molecular biology and comparative anatomy to comparative biochemistry amongst a reservoir of other evidence, there are still people who refute it. It really is their loss because even though some people try to explain our origins in terms of a deity, this argument is inherently complex and flawed, whilst natural selection is simple and beautiful. I recommend as it is Darwin's birthday you take a look at some of his work or the the vast spectrum of work that has exploded from the foundations that he helped to establish. And to all the budding scientists out there are still hundreds of simple yet possibly immensely revolutionary insights and theories nestling in the human mind. Take the time to explore the universe, be skeptical, be critical, be creative, be the next genius. Happy birthday Charlie from MRHP.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

Charles Darwin