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- RishiBoy, on 04/05/2009, -1/+34Transcript from a PBS-produced bio:
"As he settled into his new job, Wilson established a strict schedule. He arrived at eight each day for a breakfast of coffee, oatmeal, and two raw eggs in fruit juice - 'like swallowing a newborn baby,' he said." - LogicBomB, on 04/06/2009, -1/+33If humans layed eggs, abortions wouldn't be controversial, they'd be delicious.
- directedition, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3210 Things vaguely associated with eggs.
- silverhydra, on 04/06/2009, -3/+21FTA "10 Birds generally lay eggs that are 1 to 10 percent of their body weight. But the kiwi produces a single egg that is a quarter of its weight. The San Diego Zoo's Web site compares it to a 120-pound human female giving birth to a 24-pound baby."
Someone can't do simple math - TheWilder, on 04/06/2009, -1/+15Now I'm going to think of scrambled eggs every time I hear the song.
- ChromaVita, on 04/06/2009, -1/+13Actually the article was wrong when it stated that the eggs were a quarter of the bird's weight. From the San Diego Zoo site:
"They are also huge in comparison with the female kiwi: one egg might reach up to 20 percent of its mother's weight (that would be like a 120-pound human female giving birth to a 24-pound baby)! " - surfacewound, on 04/06/2009, -0/+11So I actually looked it up on the Zoo's web site; it's not bad math, it's bad reporting by the Chicago Tribune.
What the San Diego Zoo's web site REALLY says about the Kiwi:
"Kiwi eggs are smooth and beige or pale green in color. They are also huge in comparison with the female kiwi: one egg might reach up to 20 percent of its mother's weight (that would be like a 120-pound human female giving birth to a 24-pound baby)! After the egg is laid, the male takes over parenting duties. He incubates the egg and maintains the nest for nearly 80 days, but if the female returns to lay another egg, the male has to sit on the clutch that much longer."
Source: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-kiwi.html
Since they obviously can't accurately relay a simple fraction it really makes me wonder about the the more complicated stuff they report... - hiPpymIck, on 04/06/2009, -0/+11the three disadvantages of being an egg
- youll only get laid once
- it takes you 4 minutes to get hard
- the only person wholl sit on your face is your mother - borez, on 04/06/2009, -2/+11No ***** yoke.
- CaviMike, on 04/06/2009, -0/+8And I still don't know any more about eggs. Buried.
- NathanielJ, on 04/06/2009, -0/+8Once you know, you Newegg.
- bigpappapunk, on 04/06/2009, -1/+8eggcelent
- surfacewound, on 04/06/2009, -1/+8Best. Comment. Ever.
- UnFriendlyFire, on 04/06/2009, -0/+6No hinges, lock or lid, a golden treasure inside is hid.
- LOGNATR, on 04/06/2009, -1/+7#11: On odd-numbered years, eggs are good for you. On even-numbered years, they're bad for you.
- surfacewound, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5Because the San Diego Zoo never said anything about a quarter, they said it was 20%, and their example was 20%, so their math was perfectly fine.
But whoever created the article incorrectly reported it as a quarter instead of a fifth, hence the root of the problem being bad reporting, not bad math. - GreatSunJester, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5Orange Julius used to add a raw egg to the mix (extra cost of course) when you ordered a drink. Those were always the richest, most flavorful drinks.
- shiftyroach, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4buried for lack of eggs
- WraTH017, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4"Adam and Eve on a raft, and wreck 'em.".
What a mouthful. It takes about half the effort to just say "scrambled eggs on toast", with the added bonus of not sounding like an idiot. - Rudegar, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4buried for lack of bacon!
- TVarmy, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4WTF? If I didn't know the name, I'd assume that was Cheney.
- drmangrum, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4The Egg. The animal that laid the egg may not have been a chicken as we know it (although very very very very close), but due to evolution, it's offspring could have been.
- inactive, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4"that they were "ham-and-egging." Which meant that one of them would start strong and the other would finish strong"
This makes no sense to me. Who's the ham and who's the egg. Which one finishes strong, the ham? - kgerm, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3*rimshot
- kirakun, on 04/06/2009, -1/+4Don't they instantly give you 25% health? (ref: RE5)
- Frazzlet, on 04/06/2009, -1/+4What? To get a quarter of something you just divide by 4.
- surfacewound, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3So I e-mailed the editor pointing out the error earlier, and promptly received this response:
You are indeed correct. The math was off as a result of changes made in the editing process. I originally wrote that a kiwi egg is one quarter of the size of the mother, based on various sources (including the “Manual of Ornithology” by Noble S. Proctor, Page 219) and then I added a reference to a different section of the San Diego Zoo website (http://www.cres.sandiegozoo.org/education/science_ ... that said, “It would be as if a human gave birth to a 43-pound (19.5-kilogram) baby.” Of course, that would assume the mom was 172 pounds, which might not be too far off, since the average female adult weighs about 165 pounds, and doctors recommend that moms of that weight gain about 20-30 pounds during pregnancy. In the editing process, a different citation on the San Diego Zoo website was used (the one you found), but the “one quarter” reference was not fixed. I think it would be accurate to give a figure of 20-25 percent.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, it’s been fixed online because of [Digg's] careful reading.
Regards, Mark - drmangrum, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3Meh, those aren't facts.
This is:
Salmonella resides on an egg, not in an egg. It's perfectly safe to eat a raw, unpasteurized egg provided you can get the insides out without it touching the outside of the shell. - sirron811, on 04/06/2009, -1/+411. Your mother keeps begging me to fertilize her last ones.
- inactive, on 04/06/2009, -1/+4you guys crack me up.
- al3efroman, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3So one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too, huh?
- jbronder, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Eggsesss
- kgerm, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2i can see egg on your face...
- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -0/+2One thing I do know: they're delicious
- TheMidnight, on 04/06/2009, -1/+3Stop beating all these egg jokes.
- NothingSoldier, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Dugg for the title.
- inactive, on 04/06/2009, -7/+9Slow news day, eh?
- elbergel, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2"10 Birds generally lay eggs that are 1 to 10 percent of their body weight. But the kiwi produces a single egg that is 20-25 percent of its weight. The San Diego Zoo's Web site compares it to a 120-pound human female giving birth to a 24-pound baby."
Wow... a fact about the rarest of all species...the 120-pound human female. - drmangrum, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Methane with hints of sulfur.
- surfacewound, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Yeah I should've refreshed before posting the same thing 25 minutes later. :/
- InnerBlueAbyss, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2What about Rocky Balboa?
- AlyxVance, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2I've eaten a raw egg mixed in with milk before, it's actually just tastes like egg nog.
- neoform, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Did any of you pass grade 3 math?
1/4 of the mothers weight does not include the egg it's laying. How hard is that to understand? The person quoted clearly meant that. You people are retarded. - inactive, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Because it is egg nogg. No?
- bigfatphony, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2I haven't seen this much debate over a 5% difference in the average egg size of the Kiwi in relation to body weight since last years North American Kiwi Egg Weight Symposium (or EggJam '08).
- jason210, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2the egg would have to come first if you believe in evolution.
- dirtyfrog, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2@neoform
Read what ChromaVita quoted directly from the San Diego Zoo's website site. It says the egg reaches up to 20% of the mothers weight while the article says 25%.
The quote does not say a 120lbs pregnant women. It says a 120lbs women. So you assume 120lbs is the base weight. If a women was going to give birth to a baby x% of her weight, you would take the base weight (120lbs), find x%, and then add it to 120. So in this case, she would be 144lbs pregnant. - TheKillDoctor, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2The rooster always comes first.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Remember when Orange Julius used to ask if you wanted a raw egg in your drink?
- philkav, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Ye, i couldn't give a ***** about how famous people like their eggs in the morning. Dumb article
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