The eXile is proud to present a new feature that we hope will entertain and educate you, the knowledge-hungry eXhole. In each issue we’ll introduce you to a new species we’ve nominated for the Schopenhauer Award. We’re going to focus on the less-glamorous critters, the ones you won’t see in a Disney film: the parasites, the venom-dispensers, the eyeless, brainless lumps of flesh which populate the Schopenhauerian nightmare we call Life. (more…)
Today we are going to study a little sea feller known as the Sacculina carcini, a flea-like shapeshifter that enslaves crabs.
The Sacculina really is a perfect example of Intelligent Design. If man was made in the Lord’s image, then the …
Our friend,the Roundworm
Today we’ll introduce you to the Intestinal Roundworm, a hideous parasite which infects one out of every four people in the world. That’s not a misprint: one out of four. More than one and a half BILLION people. …
Cyst (left) in child’s brain.
Everybody knows a few of the more overhyped parasites who infest this great rotting corpse we call Earth, but most people don’t realize how many of them there are, and how resourceful they are in finding ways to …
“Aging is a process which we know will go from bad to worse, until it comes to the worst of all.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
In Schopenhauer’s world, you’re not allowed to die quickly, the way people die in movies. You’re …
