This little guy is Pierre, an African penguin living at San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences.

He’s 25 years old, pretty hoary for a penguin, and is unfortunately starting to go bald around the tushie.

Penguins don’t have blubber and need their feathers to keep  warm, so instead of sitting around watching Pierre shiver after every swim, biologists from the California Academy of Sciences had a custom wetsuit cut just to his size.

The upshot is that wetsuit-clad Pierre has been doing so well, some of his feathers have grown back, and he is currently being weaned away from the wetsuit.

Snopes.com is a great place to visit for anyone with a reasonable amount of curiosity about strange hoaxes, weird myths and the odd piece of junk science.

This being a weird science blog, the idea isn’t to help spread junk science, but to demonstrate how genuine science can be used to debunk the dubious stuff.

Today’s busted myth is the one about two cell phones being able to pump out enough electromagnetic energy to cook an egg (see photo).

The final verdict?

False!

Not even a bundle of 100 cell phones could even warm a raw egg.

Read the whole thing here.