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• July 29, 2010

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Quick, we need five or ten bucks... For a new project to fund progressive candidates, with the intention of countering the 200 million or so that Republican-aligned special interests have raised for the 2010 election. Click here....

• Deltoid

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  Judith Curry and the hockey stick Judith Curry has damaged her credibility by making careless and ill-thought-out claims.

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Tim LaHaye: Obama will cause the End of Days

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Day 2: Still No Correction from Ellis Washington A full two days since he was shown that his "quote" from Barack Obama is fake and yet it still remains at the very top of his latest column at the Worldnutdaily. And remember, this is a man who declared...

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  There is an open seat in the White House press room. Who gets it? Bloomberg? NPR? Or FOX?...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  One Year Since Palin "Heeded the Call" Monday was the one-year anniversary of the day that Sarah Palin cut and ran from her job as Alaska's governor -- or if you're congenitally insane, the day "the lower 48 needed her and she heeded the call." You might...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Iowa GOP: Strip Obama of Citizenship Newsweek has a fascinating report on a plank in the platform of the Iowa Republican Party to reintroduce the "real" 13th amendment -- not that pesky one that outlawed slavery, the one that would strip Barack Obama of his citizenship...

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  Argumentum ad hominem vulpes It turns out, Sponge Bob Square Pants Roolz. But never mind that. Keep focused on the racism, it is actually important: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  Friday Thursday Morning Poking at the Nature Network It's Friday morning and I don't feel much like tackling a new project. So, in the spirit of amusing myself, I meandered over to Prof-Like Substance's joint. Seems like he is openly applying to join the Nature Network. If you're...

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  Republican Candidate in TN: Islam May Not Be a Religion After declaring that he's "all about" the constitution and the bill of rights, Lt. Gov. of Tennessee Ron Ramsey -- also a candidate for governor this year -- tells a resident at a townhall meeting that Islam may not actually...

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  Taitz Finds Conspiracy at Supreme Court You surely know by now that Justice Clarence Thomas recently denied a request by Orly Taitz to stay a lower court order fining her $20,000 for filing frivolous claims and violating judicial ethics by attacking judges and calling them traitors....

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Poverty and Science Education in Massachusetts Poverty is something that's never mentioned in improving K-12 science education, yet it's critical to performance.

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  LA School Looks to Get Whooped in Court Yet another Louisiana school seems to be lining up to be the next one to get its butt kicked in court for trying to teach creationism. The Livingston Parish School Board will begin exploring the possibility of incorporating the teaching...

• July 28, 2010

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  Save Net Neutrality from The Corporate Takeover of Media From Al Franken: The Comcast-NBC merger is the first domino. If it falls, the rest will soon follow. If no one stops them, how long do you think it will take before 4 or 5 megacorporations effectively control the flow of information in America not...

• Guilty Planet

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  Voices from the Spill People on the streets speak about the spill in their own words.

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  Ellis Washington: Still No Correction It's been nearly 24 hours since I informed Ellis Washington by email that his most recent Worldnetdaily column contains a fake quote from President Obama. Still no acknowledgment or correction posted....

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  One More Reason Why One Should Wary of Stocks "Making money from less powerful counterparties is like shooting fish in a barrel."

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  The WTF Follow Up on Shirley Sherrod As the brouhaha over Shirley Sherrod begins to fade, some corners of the right continue to defend Andrew Breitbart, some of them by attacking Shirley Sherrod. But surely the most bizarre attempt at doing that has to be this article...

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  Another Asshole Cop Violates Rights of Christians This comes from the Worldnutdaily, but the video clearly shows what a total asshole this sheriff's deputy from New Mexico is. Two of them, actually. A group of Christians were protesting outside a Rob Zombie concert, telling people to repent...

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  Gingrich, Camus and Orwell -- Oh My ThinkProgress notes that Newt Gingrich is due to give what promises to be a rather odd speech about war and honesty in government. Here's the blurb about the speech: Almost nine years after the 9/11 attacks, the United States has...

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  Sharia, Marital Abuse and Rape As I noted in a comment yesterday, the one big example of Sharia law allegedly coming to the United States that all the wingnuts talk about -- the case in New Jersey where a state judge refused to grant a...

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Poverty and Learning in Massachusetts Poverty, even in one of the best educational systems in the world, accounts for a lot of poor performance.

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  BP CEO Grabs Golden Parachute Tony Hayward, CEO of British Petroleum, is headed for the exit -- with a $20 million golden parachute to guide him safely and luxuriously to the ground. The wages of sin may be death, as the Bible says, but reckless...

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  Put Charlie Rangel Out to Pasture It's time for Charles Rangel to be put out to pasture. He has long been regarded as one of the most corrupt legislators in Congress by watchdog organizations like CREW and now he has been found guilty of multiple ethics...

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  CFI's Campaign for Free Expression As a member and frequent speaker at Center for Inquiry events, I love their Campaign for Free Expression logo. Remember, International Blasphemy Rights Day is September 30:...

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