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November 7, 2009
Uncertain Principles
Great Moments in Targeted Advertising We subscribe to Locus, the SF review and news magazine, and every month when it arrives, I flip through it quickly to look at the ads. This is a useful guide to what's coming out from various publishers, but it's...
November 6, 2009
Thus Spake Zuska
Can We Talk About Science? I Mean, Really? A thousand years ago, when I was a graduate student, we often used to grumble and joke amongst ourselves about the "sacred priesthood of science".
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Sex toys and human subjects at Duke University. At Terra Sigillata, Abel notes that the Director of Duke University's Catholic Center is butting in to researchers' attempts to recruit participants for their research. As it happens, that research involves human sexuality and attitudes toward sex toys. Here's how...
Uncertain Principles
Poll: A Question of Character "It's a question of character, of friendship. Hell, Leo, I ain't afraid to say it, it's a question of ethics." --Giovanni Gaspari I'm back to lunchtime hoops after a two-week layoff due to teaching responsibilities. And this has reminded me...
The Primate Diaries
Friday Rant: "Militant" Atheists and Freedom From Religion The website Atheism Exposed claims that religion is under attack and that an all out counterinsurgency campaign is needed to defend the godly: Militant atheism should concern all believers. It is a form of fanaticism on a par with extreme...
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Friday Sprog Blogging: getting information you can trust. When someone tells you something about science, how can you tell if that person knows what they're talking about?
The Primate Diaries
Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Carnival is Up If you're interested in anthropology on the net (or you write on the topic yourself) you're not going to want to miss this monthly carnival. Go check out this months edition at Anthropology.net. Consider submitting a post to next months...
Aardvarchaeology
Archaeological Namesakes I am not the first Rundkvist in Swedish archaeology.
Neuron Culture
Gorgeous thing of the day: Sky's-eye view of the Maldives & other islands It was in this unique archipelago that Alexander Agassiz found the evidence he felt proved beyond doubt that Darwin's theory of coral reef formation was wrong, dead wrong.
Sciencewomen
SciWo's Storytime: Sally and the Purple Socks Taking a break from the science-y books and from the donor requests, this week Minnow and I want to share one of our new favorite books. This is the first book that we've checked out of the library that Minnow...
November 5, 2009
EvolutionBlog
Three Vignettes on Faith Update, 7:32 PM I have revised portions of the second vignette in response to the first comment below. Via Josh Rosenau I came across this post from Todd Wood. Wood is an unabashed young-Earth creationist. What makes him considerably more...
The Primate Diaries
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Remember, remember the fifth of November, The gunpowder treason and plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. On this day, in 1604, Guy Fawkes was arrested in his attempt to overthrow the English...
Adventures in Ethics and Science
People with search engines have questions. Some of those questions bring people to this blog.
Evolution for Everyone
New Evidence for Group Selection Published in Science Magazine The newest issue of Science Magazine includes a lovely demonstration of multilevel selection by Omar Tonsi Eldakar, my former graduate student, who is currently at the University of Arizona's Center for Insect Science. Readers who have been following my "Truth...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Native language shapes the melody of a newborn baby's cry You could have a good stab at distinguishing between German and French babies based on their cries. French newborns cry a rising melody, with higher frequencies becoming more prominent as the cry progresses. German newborns tend to cry with a falling melody.
Neuron Culture
Quick dip: Healthcare reform, conflicted profs, and the vaccine shortage Our lack of readyness for this thing is sobering -- as is the complacency about same.
Evolution for Everyone
Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIV: Group Selection in the Laboratory In the storybook portrayal of science, theories are tested by experiments, which are conducted in laboratories so that the conditions can be rigorously controlled. How would group selection be tested in the laboratory? Let's begin with the thousands of selection...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants: parents and children 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...
Uncertain Principles
Sports Poll: Yankees Win I have a lab all morning, so I won't get to more substantive blogging before this afternoon. The Yankees won their 27th World Series title last night, though, and given their status as the most polarizing team in baseball, this...
Respectful Insolence
The anti-vaccine movement, cranks, and "pseudo-expertise" Over the last week or so, I've been confronted full bore with cranks, staring down the barrel, if you will, of a crank shotgun, one barrel being the anti-vaccine movement in general (with J.B. Handley and his misogyny being the...
Terra Sigillata
Bring Rebecca Skloot and Henrietta Lacks (HeLa) to your town Enhance the intellectual climate of your university and town by hosting a book tour stop for a phenomenal writer of what is certain to become a classic book in the history of medicine, bioethics, and literature of women and culture of the American South.
Neuron Culture
Still hope for writers everywhere: Robots take over sports desk - but need writer to write lede. A robot writes a sports story -- but misses the lede. Still working on the forest/trees thing
Neuron Culture
The importance of stupidity in scientific research (and in writing), by Randy Burgess "Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time." This goes for writing too.
November 4, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Cohen Last night we went to see Leonard Cohen at the DPAC in Durham. What to say? He's the Legend. Still, at this age, full of energy and spunk. And everything was done to perfection - the set, the lighting and...
A Blog Around The Clock
Halloween in Southern Village The neighbors in Southern Village (here in Chapel Hill) are wild about Halloween, many making elaborate decorations of their houses for it (often more elaborate than for Christmas). The business on The Green also get into the spirit and put...
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