Archives for November 18, 2007
Taxonomy. It’s Important
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 [hat tip: John Lynch Stranger Fruit]
Fun with Complex Biochemical Processes
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 Wiley has a cool web page with “interactive concepts in biochemistry” animations. Check it out.
Limbaugh Sticks Foot In Mouth
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 The latest target for demonizing by right-wing talk radio is an 18-year-old Yup’ik Eskimo woman who traveled to Washington, D.C., this month to tell what global warming is doing to her remote home village of St. Michael, Alaska. Charlee Lockwood spoke of how moose have moved north, berry patches produce less fruit and the catch…
Do you believe in evolution?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 For the record…
Dawkins: Climbing Mount Improbable
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 Just so you know…
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 We don’t see this particular creationist argument being made too often these days. I think this may be because it is boring and difficult to frame nicely. As a result, this video is a little boring, but if you are a true foot soldier in the war against irrationality, you’ll sit through it as a…
Global Warming, the Blog Epic ~ 03 ~ Carbon Dioxide
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 This is the third in a series of reposts from gregladen.com on global warming. Why It Matters What you Burn and When you Burn It Carbon Dioxide is a deadly poison. It is about 50% heavier than air, so where it occurs in density, in mines or certain natural vents associated with volcanics, it can…
Current News: Earth, Physics, and Tech
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes northern Chile from PhysOrg.com A strong earthquake measuring 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale struck just offshore northern Chile Saturday, three days after a major 7.7 earthquake hit the same region, the US Geological Survey reported. [...] Discovery of a new way to manipulate light a million times more efficiently from…
Whale, Croc, Lost in Brazil
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 An 18-foot minke whale ran aground on a sandbar in the Amazon jungle some 1,000 miles from the ocean, Brazilian media reported Friday. Globo television broadcast images of dozens of people gathered along the Tapajos River splashing water on the animal, whose back and dorsal fin were exposed to the hot Amazon sun. Sea creatures…
Behold the Petticoat 5, a computer for babes
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 Its got a place to put your rings and everything. Again, an historical visual trope … the pinkish, plasticy side of the 1960s.
Evolution on Speed
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 This is an example of a fun, edgy, sexy, cool video that promotes evolution, but unfortunately also promotes some misconceptions. Like using religious metaphor and terminology in otherwise useful kid-friendly contexts, we learn here that it is all about “survival of the fittest” and that apes are monkeys.
Is it Mycrosoft, ir is it Yourcrosoft?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 Move over Abbot and Costello!
Modern Humans and Neanderthals: Did they “do it?”
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 Or, to be less crude, did modern humans, having already evolved in Africa, interbreed with the local Europeans who were Neanderthals, and if so, did they produce fertile offspring … and, did this happen in sufficient degree to have mattered at all to the genetics of later (but not necessarily living) people?
Orlando Students May be Exposed to Evolution
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 There is an ongoing effort to change the standards for teaching science in Orlando Florida so that the students are taught actual science (as opposed to creationism, apparently) in an effort to bring the next generation’s work force into the 21st century. And the public meetings are apparently getting interesting. The new standards are widely…
Baylor University and Intelligent Design
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2007 There is a poll on the home page of “The Lariat”, Baylor’s on line newspaper. It asks if Baylor should encourage, discourage, prohibit, or support Intelligent Design. The Creationists are winning by a landslide. The poll is here just in case you are interested in voting. [hat tip Pharyngula] Oh, and by the way ……
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