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• November 8, 2009

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  On Stupak, Demobilization, and the Failure of Conciliation Do Democrats really think that those who busted their asses for them wanted to restrict access to abortion?

• Gene Expression

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  Watch what you depict! No Islamic Landmarks Were Harmed in the Making of '2012' (via Unreligious Right): The trailer for 2012 plays like a highlight reel of civilization falling apart all over the world, but it's religion that gets the brunt of Emmerich's digital...

• Deltoid

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  The Australian's War on Science 41 Janet Albrechtsen claims that the sea level is not rising even though measurements from satellites and tide gauges proves that it is.

• Effect Measure

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  Acknowledging Obama's failures We're pissed.

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Ed Infiltrates a Protest So after the reader meetup on Saturday, I and two of my readers, Barry and Eric, wandered over to Capitol Hill to see the anti-health care protests. The protest was on the West lawn, so we had to walk all...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Health Care Passes House The House of Representatives passed the health care reform bill Saturday night, but not before passing an amendment to prohibit funding of abortions: Earlier, the House passed an amendment to pending health care legislation that prohibits federal funds for abortion...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Dumbass Quote of the Day From Sarah Palin's Facebook page: "An interview with Oprah Winfrey is already scheduled, and I'm also hoping to have the opportunity to talk with Bill O'Reilly, Barbara Walters, Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Donohue Quotes Colbert Review Bill Donohue, the perpetually outraged head of the Catholic League, has a new book out. And on his website, he cites a blurb from Stephen Colbert: "Wake up, America! The secular minority has cut the brake cables on America's In-God-We-Trust-Mobile™!...

• November 7, 2009

• Deltoid

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  Are CSIRO scientists still being gagged? The new CSIRO charter is supposed to allow them to freely publish, but CSIRO management is s till making difficulties.

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  The First Openly Gay MLB Owner The Chicago Cubs have become the first major-league team to have an openly gay owner according to the Windy City Times. On Oct. 30, the Ricketts family became the new owners of MLB team, the Chicago Cubs. The family bought the team and Wrigley Field...

• Tomorrow's Table

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  Flood tolerant rice soon to be released to Bangladeshi farmers The Daily Star of Dhaka reports today that flood-tolerant rice will soon be officially released in Bangladesh. The flood-tolerant rice varieties (called Sub1- rice) can help farmers, many who live on less than $1/day, dramatically increase yield during floods....

• The Primate Diaries

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  Happy Carl Sagan Day! His birthday is actually on Monday, but today marks the first annual event initiated by Broward College in Florida. In honor of the event, here is Carl Sagan's final interview prior to his death. Amazing isn't it that the science...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Schools emerge as new tactic in gay marriage votes The right wing is shameless. In one ad after another, voters in California and Maine were besieged with images of what would supposedly happen if same-sex marriage were legal: Students on a field trip to a lesbian wedding, elementary kids gobbling up books featuring gay...

• The Questionable Authority

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  Quote of the Day - 7 Nov 2009 The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Congressperson Steve Israel demands an apology from Michele Bachmann to for tacitly condoning Holocaust imagery Michel Bachmann has absolutely no sense of proportion in her personal statements (as a member of congress) or in what she encourages or allows happening around her. She is also an extraordinarily dishonest person. That first bit ... lack of sense of proportion (or shame)...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Glen Beck's latest tirade. Performed by Jon Stewart This will make you laugh. Then you will realize that there is nothing funny here. Nothing. Then you will cry. With Glenn Beck. Cry for Glenn. Cry for our nation. And if you think I'm joking that's just what they made you think....

• Built on Facts

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  Being an Absentee President Of late president Obama has taken a little bit of heat for his frequent (and mostly male) golf outings. Before him, president Bush took the same sort of heat for his golf and vacations. If you were willing to dig...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Stewart Nails Beck If you haven't seen this spot-on Jon Stewart impersonation of Glenn Beck, you really must see it. Brilliant stuff....

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  The Bipartisan Support for Pseudo-Medicine The LA Times notes that the provision in the Senate health care reform bill that supports payment for Christian Science faith healing as a legitimate form of medical treatment was supported by prominent members of both parties: Backed by some...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Badass Quote of the Day From Dan Froomkin, former Washington Post columnist: Journalists should strive for accuracy, and fairness. Objectivity is impossible, and is too often confused with balance. And the problem with balance is that we are not living in a balanced time. For...

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  Public View of Both Parties Crashes You hear a lot from Republicans crowing about President Obama's approval ratings dropping, and those of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid being very low. But the truth is that the public's perceptions of both parties has crashed over the last...

• Respectful Insolence

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  Let's go back to the days of the Founding Fathers... ...back when they believed that humors were responsible for your health. Oh, yes, I know it's now "politically or medically incorrect" now to practice medicine the way they did in the days of our Founding Fathers, but that's because the socialist libero-Nazis took that away from us:

• November 6, 2009

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Michele Bachmann Exhibits Continued Violent Behavior She wants to spill the blood of liberals. I think she should be locked up. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...

• Thus Spake Zuska

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  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

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  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...

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