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November 30, 2007
Category: Creationism
The 1920s. It was a sad, sad time in America. All the biologists got together and, inspired by Darwinian writings, embarked on a campaign to sterilize those they perceived as unfit, the campaign known to us as Eugenics. From Eugenics grew other evils, such as...
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Category: Cell Biology
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In Genesis 4, we see specific reference to herdsmen and farmers as distinct groups, represented by Abel and Cain, respectively. God indicates a preference for the results of herding over planting, and the sibling troubles that ensue result in the world becoming a difficult place...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:56 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals
.. the Blog Carnival, is Here, at Sorting Out Science...
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Category: Politics
Media Matters reports that during last night's CNN special Campaign Killers: Why Do Negative Ads Work?, anchor Campbell Brown said: "General David Petraeus made his reputation taking on insurgents in Iraq. But when he came to Capitol Hill in September, he was confronted by American...
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Category: Blogging
for hitting the big 100K. If you look down yonder left, you'll see that my SiteMeter counter passed 100,000 visits earlier today....
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Category: Blogospherics
Blogospherics: Hot stuff from Sb Bloggers...
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Category: Other
Hat Tip: BATC...
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Category: Orgasms
From Geekology, who comments: The Orgasmo Clock wakes you up in the morning to the invigorating moan of a woman having an orgasm. Which is pretty freaking awesome if you ask me. It costs $25. I don't need one though, because I almost always...
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Category: Blogospherics
Friday Ark #167 is here....
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Category: Creationism
Which in this case would be that an intelligent designer created life, or some such drivel....
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Category: Politics
Hat Tip: Cosmic Variance Go to Cosmic Variance to also see Huckabee talking to God... Plus a thoughtful discussion of this nonsense....
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Category: Events
From Carl Zimmer at The Loom: A quick heads-up: I'll be talking about the tree of life tomorrow morning on NPR's Saturday Weekend Edition. The segment will be archived on their "Science Out of the Box" web page. We'll be talking about everything from animals...
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Category: Creationism
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: The Disturbing Legacy of America's Eugenics Crusade UMN Campus, Nicholson Hall room 155...
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Category: Earth Science
From Science Buzz: An unusually large earthquake hit the Caribbean island of Martinique today (yesterday). It had a magnitude of 7.3, and is said to be the strongest earthquake in Barbado's living memory....
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Category: Other
An armed man believed to be carrying a bomb walked into the presidential campaign office of Sen. Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire, today and took two hostages, according to police. CNN affiliate WMUR is reporting that two hostages have been released. *...
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Headline: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin...
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Category: Archaeology
Hot off the presses from PNAS, we have a paper on ancient jade exchange in Southeast Asia. From the abstract: We have used electron probe microanalysis to examine Southeast Asian nephrite (jade) artifacts, many archeologically excavated, dating from 3000 B.C. through the first millennium...
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Category: Technology
Yet Another Cutie: Sharp and Tappin Technology (STTech) is readying two PCs based on Via's recently introduced pico-ITX motherboard. The picoPC1 and picoPC2 measure as little as 5 x 3.4 x 1.5 inches, and feature separately available cases fashioned from billet aluminum, according to the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Giraffe
I find it interesting that in pop-science culture, speciation takes "millions of years" ... but the average "lifespan" of medium to large bodied animals is probably less than two MILLION years....
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Category: Religion
PZ Myers at Pharyngula examines this question in an entirely different case. This is the case of 14 year old Jehovah Witness Dennis Linberg. Dennis died on Wednesday night at a Seattle area hospital because he refused to accept a life saving transfusion on religious...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:22 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
This is the tag line for an article in yesterday's Minneapolis Star Tribune: Where punishment drifts into abuse is the issue in the case of a father who hit his son 36 times. In this case, the "drifting" occurred because... When Shawn Fraser's discipline failed...
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November 29, 2007
Category: Other
... But not hungry. That's probably because I am thirsty....
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Category: Technology
Morons are so annoying. Even the ones that are just passing by, the ones you don't really have to talk to. These days I often have lunch in a public dining area where most of the patrons are scientists or geeks, or students learning to...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:59 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Intelligent Design
The blog Afarensis brings us an amusing yet at the same time disturbing discussion of the Discovery Institute's Casey Luskin concerns about the reliability of Wikipedia as a source of information for students. This is hysterically funny because of the fact that Casey Luskin and...
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Category: Religion
12 Days of the War on Christmas (Fox Style)...
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Category: Ethnography
Genesis 2 ends with Adam and Eve being naked yet not ashamed. In Genesis 3, the Serpent, who is wiser than average, tricks Eve into partaking of the forbidden fruit of one of god's two magic trees. This results in Adam and Eve recognizing their...
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Category: Carnivals
The Blog Carnival, I and the Bird # 63, is here!...
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Category: Creationism
The Texas Education Agency's director of science cirriculum is resigning. Check this out: In documents obtained Wednesday through the Texas Public Information Act, agency officials said they recommended firing Comer for repeated acts of misconduct and insubordination. But Comer said she thinks political concerns about...
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Category: Religion
One of my best friends, who shall remain nameless for the present, a scientist, an atheist, a heavily decorated soldier in the war on Christmas, raised two wonderful, brilliant children, on of which being a devote catholic now in training to be a very devote...
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Category: Technology
The internet is a terrorist tool. Apparently, the US House passed a bill that declares it so. This would mean, I assume, that funds and effort will be spent on controlling the Internet, and all bets would be off on things like Constitutional Protections for...
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Category: Technology
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Category: Global Warming
There are still climate change deniers out there, and if you are one, I'd like to take a moment to annoy you with the following story: Nearly 300 cases of chikungunya fever, a virus that previously has been common only in Africa and Asia, were...
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Category: Natural Selection
I have a lot of problems with some of the verbiage he uses. But it is all done with a nice English Accent, so he must be a smart guy......
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Category: Species Coming and Going
Ancient Microbes; Wolves in Idaho; Birds Going Extinct;...
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Category: Other
HELLO GREETINGS I NEED YOUR URGENT HELP TO DISTRIBUTE 12.5M USD.TO HUMANITARIAN AND OPHANS.AS I'M WIDOW AND CANCER WOMAN. THIS MY MAIL MIGHT COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE ANDTHE TEMPTATION TO INGORE IT AS UNSEROUS COULD COME INTO YOUR MIND BUT PL'S CONSIDER IT...
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Category: Evolutionary Biology
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Category: Technology
"His cell phone was found in his shirt pocket with its battery severely melted and his chest burned and fractured." Ouch. Details here....
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Category: Politics
As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records. The...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:06 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science News
V-ger reaches strange interplanetary space; Teenage Galaxies; Sirens of Titan?; Yet Another Solar System; The Venootions should have listened to the crazy Global Warming believers......
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November 28, 2007
Category: Religion
Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 (5 - 25) are distinctly different and contradictory origin stories. The biblical origin story represented in this text has long been known to resemble a set of Sumerian stories that mainly deal with a multitude of gods interacting (some...
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Category: Education
Are there really open source colleges? Not really, but there are regular colleges that offer some degree of OpenSource learning....
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Category: Technology
[hat tip]...
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Category: Technology
... when you can have an Exoskeleton! [hat tip: Geekologie]...
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Category: Politics
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Category: Cat
This is a web site dedicated entirely to the collection of photographs of animals with gaping maws. Worth a look. But not too closely....
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Category: Archaeology
The origin and early history of Native American people has always been an issue of debate and contention. There has never been a moment when all, or even most, interested parties agreed on anything close to a single story. New research published in the Open-Access...
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Category: Science News
Discovery of gene for black coat color in dogs has broad implications Discovery of gene for black coat color in dogs has broad implications from PhysOrg.com The discovery of a gene responsible for black coat color in dogs may help researchers understand fundamental processes in...
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Category: Other
Hey, look what I just got in the mail. Does this mean I"m rich?...
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Category: Science
...rapid judgments of competence based solely on the facial appearance of candidates predicted the outcomes of gubernatorial elections, the most important elections in the United States next to the presidential elections. In all experiments, participants were presented with the faces of the winner and...
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