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• February 9, 2010

• Deltoid

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  Andrew Bolt doesn't know or care what a draft is Andrew Bolt has written a post where he pretends that comments made by Andrew Lacis about the first order draft of the summary of chapter 9 of AR4 WG1 are actually aboout the published report. Andrew Revkin asked Lacis what...

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  The Australian's War on Science 44 part 2 As well as Monckton Media Watch also looked at the way Jamie Walker passed off his opinioin piece about the Great Barrier Reef as a straight news story. John Bruno dissects Walker's response....

• Evolution for Everyone

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  Economics and Evolution as Different Paradigms IV: The Limiting Factor of Cultural Evolution is not Origin but Spread I'm back after finishing the first draft of my next book, titled Evolving the City, which will be published by Little, Brown and is about how evolutionary theory can improve the quality of life in a practical sense. It is...

• EvolutionBlog

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  Barr Bashes ID Writing in the religious journal First Things University of Delaware physics professor Stephen Barr lays into the ID Movement. Here's the first paragraph: It is time to take stock: What has the intelligent design movement achieved? As science, nothing. The...

• Framing Science

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  The NYTimes, the IPCC, and Perceived Conflict of Interest Time to think carefully about perceived conflict of interest....

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  The Focus on the Family Super Bowl Ad: It's All About... One thing to remember about any non-profit group is that the most important mission is always keeping the doors open.

• Framing Science

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  AU School of Communication Teams with PBS Frontline to Examine The Safety of Regional Air Carriers A joint project between Frontline and American University....

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Farah v Breitbart Another one of those "which of these buffoons am I supposed to root for" situations, this time at the tea party convention over the weekend. Joseph Farah gave a speech, much of it about the birther nonsense, and Andrew Breitbart,...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Klingenschmitt Don't Like No Gays in the Military Our old pal Gordon Klingenschmitt is back and he's got the outrage machine cranked up over a plan to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell. And how about this for dishonest framing in a fundraising appeal: Tuesday the Secretary of Defense...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  The Shelby Hold Gets Worse The hold placed on all Obama administration nominees is already perhaps the worst example of unprincipled hypocrisy in recent memory, but it's actually worse than it seems at first blush. Marcy Wheeler points out that one of the contracts he's...

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  Utah Legislature Shows Scientific Ignorance. Again. The Utah legislature has once again demonstrated its utter ignorance of science by passing a bill allowing women to view the heartbeat of their fetus before an abortion -- at three weeks. Here comes the stupid:...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  TMLC Files Another Frivolous Lawsuit The Thomas More Law Center looks to continue its perfect record of provoking amusement and exasperation on the part of judges by filing a bizarre lawsuit against Eric Holder for the passage of the hate crimes bill. Why would you...

• 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...

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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...

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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

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