Glow Worms, Go!

I owe you an animal story. In an interesting example of adaptation, scientists have found that worms near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in the Ukraine are having more sex than ever before.

You may already know that worms are able to reproduce either sexually or asexually. And normally, the worms would much rather do it by themselves, thank you. But near Chernobyl, where radioactivity in the soil is 100 times higher than normal, worms are turning to having sex, presumably as a way to pass on their most radioactivity-resistant genes to their offspring.

One can't help but wonder if U.S. Senator Rick Santorum might not secretly be thinking along the lines of radioactivity treatments for all of those pesky American homosexuals. The Senator, already in hot water for idiotic comments equating gay sex with bigamy, polygamy, incest, and "whatever," probably thinks this is something he can cure with "good ol' American know how and family values." I mean, afterall, he has nothing against homosexuals. Just homosexuals having homosexual sex in the privacy of their own bedrooms.

The worms are looking smarter all the time.

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