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What We're Talking About Tuesday, November 10, 2009
House Passes Health Care Reform Bill
Context By Seed
After hours of deliberation late into Saturday night, the US House of Representatives passed the long-awaited health care reform bill. While many Americans are elated at the new bill’s passing, others are questioning the controversial amendment added that prohibits insurance coverage for abortions. Ed Brayton from Dispatches from the Culture Wars examines the compromise many Democratic Representatives made with Catholic bishops local to their constituencies in adding this amendment. Later on, Ed also criticizes what he calls "unruly behavior" exhibited by some House Republicans to delay the passing of the bill. On Effect Measure, Revere expressed disappointment and outrage at what he calls a "neutered industry-friendly cup of weak tea with a Draconian anti-choice amendment," emphatically stating, "a woman's right to choose is not negotiable."
The Conversation
Health Care Passes House
Dispatches from the Culture WarsNovember 8, 2009
The House of Representatives passed the health care reform bill Saturday night, but not before passing an amendment to prohibit funding of abortions...
One More Thing About Bachmann
Dispatches from the Culture WarsNovember 9, 2009
I forgot to mention this in my post about meeting Michelle Bachmann. While I was standing there waiting to get a picture with her, she was bragging to her followers around her that the House Republicans had kept bringing up pointless amendments.
Acknowledging Obama's failures
Effect Measure November 8, 2009
It looks like there's going to be some kind of health care reform bill, but we're not celebrating. It's legislation that could have been important and meaningful and instead is a neutered industry-friendly cup of weak tea with a Draconian anti-choice amendment.
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Magnetic Movie, winner of the Nature Scientific Merit Award for accuracy at the Imagine Science Film Festival, on bioephemera.
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They Might Be Giants sing about the joys of fossil discovery in, "I am a palaeontologist" on Greg Laden's Blog.
Community
The newest blogger to join the ScienceBlogs community is statistician Andrew Gelman, author of Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do, among other books. Gelman is blogging at Applied Statistics, where he explores statistical quirks like the Russian Mortality Paradox and the reason so many men are named Matt. Drop by and check him out!
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“This is why I can't help but grit my teeth when I hear about how important a good night sleep is. I know it's important, OK? The more I want to fall asleep - the more intensely I'm trying to achieve my goal - the less likely I am to actually pass out. I'll lie awake, haunted by thoughts of white bears and cognitive deficits.”November 4, 2009
Channel Surfing
Life Science
Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XVI: Individualism is Dead. Long Live Major Transitions
Just as Brutus was a close companion to Caesar but proved to be his undoing, evolutionary theory seemed...
How do you explain evolution?
Many people claim it is easy to explain. I once heard a bunch of high school teachers at...
Q: How do you sex a Smilodon? (A: Very carefully)
A very lion-like Smilodon, from Ernest Ingersoll's The Life of Animals (1907). For decades after its discovery...
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Pale Blue Dot
Sagan vs Sigur Rós Mash-up...
Berlinski - still pompous, still wrong.
An anonymous tipster sent me a note to let me know that on one of the Disco...
All of My Faults Are Stress Related
Geologic causes vs geologic triggers
There's a new paper out that suggests that the Zipingpu Dam may be responsible for last year's Wenchuan earthquake. But I think there's a distinction that's easy to miss in assigning causes and identifying triggers.
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Yet more snarking
This stuff just gets weirder; maybe you should just read Brian for some sense instead. Anyway, so as...
Primer on The Psychology of Climate Change Communication
Psychologists apply framing to public communication....
Climate Cover-Up
Hoggan could have titled his book "Lies and the lying liars who tell them" but Al Franken already took that one.
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On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Mr. Isis Undercuts Dr. Isis. Dr. Isis Seethes and Smothers Him in His Sleep
If I remember correctly, Mr. Isis and I were married the Catholic way. Therefore, we are only together...
Comparing SfN Social Media Experiment with a BlogTwitty Meeting
As I noted previously The Society for Neuroscience encouraged its members to blog and Twitt the annual meeting...
You said one thing wrong, therefore everything you ever said is also wrong
... perhaps the "Laden is full of shit" comment was a way to avoid accepting anthropogenic global warming or evolution or the fact that everybody is a little gay or some other outlandish thing I may or may not have said ...
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Apostasy is a crime punishable by death in Islamic countries
Wake up, everyone: Iran is about to execute three men for the crime of atheism…well, specifically, apostasy, rejecting...
When Lifting a Needle Exchange Ban Isn't
It would be impossible to have a needle exchange in Boston. Heckuva needle exchange bill.
Correcting Ken Ham's standard omission
I'm feeling a bit nauseous right now. I'm not sure whether I'm coming down with the flu, or...
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It's about time...
Time to line up to protect myself.
Thoughts on a proposal to escalate grant-acquisition difficulty
A recent post noted the decision by the NHLBI to adopt a payline policy that varied by grant...
Has swine flu peaked, and it if has, what does that mean?
Increasingly we are hearing that the swine flu is peaking now. Some say it looks like were are past a peak and everything is going to be OK. Is this true, does this matter, and what are we doing wrong with this assumption?
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Smell and Memory
A new paper by scientists at the Weizmann Institute documents the primal connection between whiffs of smell and...
Oxytocin: Starting with the basics
So sometimes, Sci gets questions, and sometimes those questions...are close enough to requests. And so, today Sci will...
Repost: Prairie Voles in Love
As a taste of things to come. :) For your Friday Weird Science, I present to you a...
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Open Lab PSA
We Interrupt this craziness on Oxytocin for an important PSA: Open Lab is COMING!!! Sci all of a...
Tweetlinks, 11-09-09
Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my...
Butterflies in Space
Macro Detail from a print from Press NY. via Blue Barnhouse Unfortunately the Press NY website appears...
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ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Christian Casper
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular,...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna
As graphic novels go, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth is every bit as good as Maus or...
Third World Wide
Seattle-based hip hop artist Gabriel Teodros performs his song Third World Wide that connects the issues that...
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What I'm working on
I'm not going to apologize about lack of posting over the last month or so, and I'm not...
What to do when recruitment promises evaporate?
As I have noted before, if there is one modal complaint of the newly hired Assistant Professor in...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Fork Lift Accident Brings Down The Warehouse
This video is one of those where you find yourself laughing while you secretly hope that this will never be you.
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Humanities & Soc. Sciences
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Minuscule Ladybug Bombs Dragonflies
This is a silly video that will make you smile.
Gene Expression
Sometimes it's the author, not the story
I have made reference to an epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time, several times before on this...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
That Which I Sowed in Tears, I Reap in Joy: A Love Letter to my Beautiful Readers
when Hillary Clinton said "It takes a village", people and the media mocked her. I am living proof that this is the truth
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