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What We're Talking About Tuesday, November 10, 2009

House Passes Health Care Reform Bill

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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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magneticvideo.jpgMagnetic Movie, winner of the Nature Scientific Merit Award for accuracy at the Imagine Science Film Festival, on bioephemera.

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paleovideo.jpg 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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In Conversation

“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.”

Sleep

The Frontal Cortex

November 4, 2009

Channel Surfing

Life Science

Evolution for Everyone

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...

Greg Laden's Blog

How do you explain evolution?

Many people claim it is easy to explain. I once heard a bunch of high school teachers at...

Laelaps

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...

The Life Science Channel RSS Feed

Physical Science

Dynamics of Cats

Pale Blue Dot

Sagan vs Sigur Rós Mash-up...

Good Math, Bad Math

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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Environment

Stoat

Yet more snarking

This stuff just gets weirder; maybe you should just read Brian for some sense instead. Anyway, so as...

Framing Science

Primer on The Psychology of Climate Change Communication

Psychologists apply framing to public communication....

The Island of Doubt

Climate Cover-Up

Hoggan could have titled his book "Lies and the lying liars who tell them" but Al Franken already took that one.

The Environment Channel RSS Feed

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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Education

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...

DrugMonkey

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...

Greg Laden's Blog

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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Politics

Pharyngula

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...

Mike the Mad Biologist

When Lifting a Needle Exchange Ban Isn't

It would be impossible to have a needle exchange in Boston. Heckuva needle exchange bill.

Pharyngula

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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Medicine & Health

Respectful Insolence

It's about time...

Time to line up to protect myself.

DrugMonkey

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...

Greg Laden's Blog

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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Brain & Behavior

The Frontal Cortex

Smell and Memory

A new paper by scientists at the Weizmann Institute documents the primal connection between whiffs of smell and...

Neurotopia

Oxytocin: Starting with the basics

So sometimes, Sci gets questions, and sometimes those questions...are close enough to requests. And so, today Sci will...

Neurotopia

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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Technology

Neurotopia

Open Lab PSA

We Interrupt this craziness on Oxytocin for an important PSA: Open Lab is COMING!!! Sci all of a...

A Blog Around The Clock

Tweetlinks, 11-09-09

Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my...

bioephemera

Butterflies in Space

Macro Detail from a print from Press NY. via Blue Barnhouse Unfortunately the Press NY website appears...

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Information Science

A Blog Around The Clock

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...

The Primate Diaries

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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Jobs

Sciencewomen

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...

DrugMonkey

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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Hurricanes

As the 2009 hurricane season picks up speed after a remarkably mild beginning, we look to the ScienceBlogs archives for the science behind the storms.

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The real story of the hurricanes


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