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• February 9, 2010

• Pharyngula

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  That sneaky, nasty blasphemy law Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland made a few more videos of me babbling before I left, and has posted them to the website. I'm terrible in them — no fault to Michael, I was just worn out and burned out...

• Pharyngula

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  Rise up, Texans! Grassroots action can do wonderful things. Voters in Don McLeroy's district in Texas are organizing an ad campaign and are looking for contributions to help air radio ads opposing McLeroy's candidacy: as they say, "The ads will target moderate republicans...

• February 8, 2010

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  What does an atheist firing squad look like? Perhaps not what you'd think. This is not about appeasement. It is about not being a racist slob....

• Pharyngula

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  I don't know which way I want this poll to go Some guy named Gerard Alexander has an opinion piece in the Washington Post titled "Why are liberals so condescending?" I will say one thing in its favor: it gets to its point quickly and clearly in the first few sentences....

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Obama to CDC Efforts in Antimicrobial Resistance: Drop Dead The Obama Administration has decided to massively cut the funding for the CDC's antimicrobial resistance and vaccination efforts. I thought this was the kind of anti-science bullshit that the Bush Administration did.

• Framing Science

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  AU Forum and Report on The Climate Change Generation: Youth, Media, and Politics in an Unsustainable World Panel includes Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post and includes the release of a major survey analysis of the opinions and beliefs of young Americans about climate change.

• Pharyngula

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  Ms Palin, you fail Sarah Palin gave a $100K speech to a convention of teabagging wankers, she faced a few pre-screened, prepared questions, and what did she need? She had to have the answers written on her hand ahead of time! Here's what gets...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  FRC: Criminalize Homosexuality The Family Research Council has joined Focus on the Family in recently coming out boldly in favor of criminalizing homosexuality, in response to the push to allow gays to openly serve in the military. On Hardball, one of their spokesmen...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Religious Right Wigs Out Over a Toy The latest religious right freakout seems to be over a pink toy that is apparently going to force little girls to worship Satan and infest them with demons. I mean, it would do those things if Satan and demons actually...

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  Republican Senator Pulls Off Rare Double Backflip of Hypocrisy Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama has managed to pull off a rare maneuver even by Washington standards, proving himself to be a hypocrite on two fronts simultaneously. Shelby has placed a "blanket hold" on all Obama nominees - an absolutely...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Weigel Clarifies O'Keefe Story Recollections My colleague Dave Weigel, who uncharacteristically finds himself as part of a story rather than reporting one, has written a post at the Washington Independent clarifying what he has said and what he remembers about James O'Keefe and his attendance...

• Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

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  Dan Savage on Gay Adoption Unlike straight parents, gay parents cannot go out one night, get drunk and adopt. Unlike straight parents, gay parents have children because they are wanted and planned for.

• Dynamics of Cats

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  Presidential Question Time why a "Question Time" for US Presidents is a bad idea

• February 7, 2010

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Past Due (and Brad DeLong) on Political Paralysis If you're looking for a good primer on Big Shitpile and other recent economic events, I highly recommend Peter Goodman's Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy.

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Dumbass Quote of the Day This is a seriously weird one from Glenn Beck: BECK: He chose to use his name, Barack, for a reason. To identify, not with America -- you don't take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Badass Quote of the Day "Depending on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." John Perry Barlow...

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  Demonization as a Marketing Tool A reader sent along a fundraising letter from Faith and Action, a religious right group that seeks to evangelize the political leaders in Washington DC, that I found quite amusing. Please let me confide in you as I get right...

• Effect Measure

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  Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: the miracle in the melon If there's a God, how do you explain this?

• Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

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  Ali G Interviews Religious Wingnuts Ali G talks to religious wingnuts about their beliefs .. oddly, religious wingnuts don't like talking about aspects of their own religion that offend them .. if their religion and its real-life applications are so offensive, why believe all that wingnuttery in the first place?

• February 6, 2010

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Senator Al Franken Tears Comcast CEO New Orifice Don't mess with Al, man....

• Tomorrow's Table

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  When fiction merges with reality Hunkered down in an elegant hotel in Washington DC, watching the epic storm continue unabated, I cannot help but think of award winning author Kim Stanley Robinson's "Fifty Degress Below" , the second novel in his three-part trilogy.

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Putting Wakefield in a Larger Context "All of which could be traced back to abject human stupidity."

• Framing Science

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  Text of Remarks from Harvard Kennedy School Panel on Climate Change, Skeptics, and the Media More on a panel worth listening to and reading about...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Teabaggers: "Tell congress to end Snobama! " Michel Bachmann has organized a teabagging protest in Washington to bring right wing voters from across the nation directly into armed and ready, whites of the eye contact with members of Congress to demand that they pass legislation to end the current Snobama that is...

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  Interview with Michael Specter at ScienceOnline2010 (video) Part 1 Sabine Vollmer interviews Keynote Speaker Michael Specter for Science In The Triangle Blog....

Synthetic Biology

Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:

Pharyngula May 30, 2007

“Playing God”

The Loom January 31, 2008

"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti

Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006

Build your own virus