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• November 23, 2009

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Antibiotic Resistance and the House and Senate Healthcare Bills Some good in each version.

• Uncertain Principles

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  Judging a Book's Cover The pictures I posted last night aren't really the greatest for seeing the cover of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, so here's a shot of the book jacket spread out on my desk: This isn't the greatest, either,...

• Pharyngula

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  I get all my clothes off the internet I repeat: Skepticon II was a blast, and I think what really contributed to the fun was that there was a lot of young people organizing it and in the audience, and no stodginess was allowed. Make sure you go...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  An Interview with Jason Page, Film Maker, about White Man's World It was dark and the streets were wet as I pulled out of the ER where I had seen enough carnage for the night and found the highway heading straight into town. Right away there was a sense of trouble and randomness in the air as police cars careened desperately across the on-ramp and onto the grassy median in pursuit of something a bit more exciting than a box of donuts.

• Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

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  Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Here's a challenging North American species to keep you busy with your field guides, thanks to a talented and generous photographer!

• Good Math, Bad Math

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  Creating User-Defined Types in Haskell (This is an edited repost of one of the posts from the earlier version of my Haskell tutorial.) (This file is a literate haskell script. If you save it as a file whose name ends in ".lhs", it's actually...

• bioephemera

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  Thank goodness no one grows eighties-jeans trees anymore Reader Jake, who is always on top of good finds, alerted me this morning to this punning play on fall foliage by illustrator Christoph Niemann at the NYT: "Bio-Diversity." The full post is absolutely charming - go browse it...

• Eruptions

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  Monday Musings: Evacuations near Galeras and we continue to not cause Campi Flegrei to erupt Eruptions at Galeras in Colombia have prompted evacuations and road closures. Meanwhile, the ash from Huila is likely helping coffee growers and the scientists drilling into Campi Flegrei in Italy don't want it to erupt either.

• Pharyngula

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  Mary's Monday Metazoan: Strange diet That's a photo of a coral slurping up a passing jellyfish. For some reason, I find it vaguely disturbing, and have no idea why my wife would select it....

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Van Dyke's Definition of "Good Faith" After making a first attempt to reply to my challenge concerning conservative originalism and the Loving v Virginia decision, Tom Van Dyke then left a comment at American Creation accusing me of not arguing in "good faith." Here is what...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Bush DOJ Officials Defend KSM Civilian Trial While the right wing loses its collective mind over the decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and a couple other 9/11 conspirators in federal court in New York, two former Bush DOJ officials puncture their empty fear mongering and defend...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Dumbass Quote of the Day From an old friend of Dispatches, Utah State Sen. Chris Buttars: I meet with the gays here and there. They were in my house two weeks ago. I don't mind gays. But I don't want 'em stuffing it down my...

• The Corpus Callosum

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  Undercurrent? Is there some kind of especially violent undercurrent right now, in the right-wing river of hate? Ed Brayton just posted about a billboard put up by the GOP, specifically the Lafayette County (Missouri) Republicans: The sign (bigger view in new...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Our Mere Existence is Offensive It has been fascinating watching the response, city by city, where the advertisement that says "Not religious? You're not alone" has gone up. We've seen bus drivers refuse to drive buses with that ad on them (and get fired for...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Crocodile ancestors found in Sahara A six-metre croc with three sets of fangs is among the five ancient relatives of modern-day crocodiles found in the Sahara Desert, scientists said Thursday. Three of the fossils, discovered by researchers led by Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago and Hans Larsson of...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  New Church/State Lawsuit in Tennessee A new lawsuit has been filed against the Cheatham County, Tennessee school system over a range of church/state violations including allowing Bible distribution in classrooms, teacher-endorsed prayer at football games and school-sponsored prayer at graduation ceremonies and the teaching of...

• Respectful Insolence

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  Desiree Jennings: Worst reporting ever? I hate to revisit this case again. However, some of my readers have sent me links to something that compels me to dig up the rotting corpse of Generation Rescue's despicable attempt to use the suffering of a troubled young...

• Tetrapod Zoology

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  'The Secret World of Naked Snakes': a ZSL event As a Tet Zoo regular you'll know and love the remarkable limbless amphibians known as caecilians. In case you don't know, caecilians have sensory tentacles, sometimes have protrusible eyes, sometimes lack eyes entirely, often exhibit sophisticated parental care [maternal skin-feeding...

• Terra Sigillata

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  Haley Barbour proposal to merge Mississippi HBCUs meets with ire The gathering storm since last week of a proposed merger of Mississippi HBCUs raises the questions, "What the heck is an HBCU anyway?" and "How are HBCUs relevant in 2009?"

• Uncertain Principles

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  Links for 2008-11-23 Seeing Laser Beams : Built on Facts "I have to say it's a nice job perk that I can see old science fiction tropes come to life pretty much every day." (tags: science physics optics blogs built-on-facts lasers) blarg?...

• Guilty Planet

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  I Understand This Cup Not at All What is the deal with the new Starbucks cup?

• Gene Expression

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  Cannibalism & evolution Cannibalism is a controversial topic. It is routine for particular societies to accuse "barbarians", enemies, or evil mythological figures, of cannibalism. When it comes to the archaeological record some skeptics have claimed that like "sacred objects" too often human remains...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  The Free Market, Flu Vaccine and The Role of Gummit The Free Market is a god-like powerful force that we can rely on to solve our problems, especially those of supply and demand. So if, as the WHO estimates, about 2% of the population is going to be covered by H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine then...

• The Island of Doubt

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  Hacked emails, tree-ring proxies and blogospheric confusion Just why tree rings no longer provide useful proxy data for temperatures is not known. There are several theories, many of which suggest that climate change itself is the problem.

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.

The Island of DoubtJuly 25, 2006

The real story of the hurricanes

Neuron Culture September 11, 2008

Hurricanes & Climate Change: A Round-Up Says Maybe More, Definitely Hotter

Corpus Callosum September 12, 2008

What Ike Really Means; Introducing Integrated Kinetic Energy

See Also:

Cribsheet: Hurricanes
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