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December 31, 2007
Category: Year in Review
I thought I wasn't going to do it, but I did it. This is a year-end review of my posting on gregladen.com and scienceblogs.com. The posts are selected on the basis if how much I liked them, how much I liked them in relation to...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2007
Category: Sex Differences
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Intelligent Design
... about the Dover decision and judicial independence....
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Other
I would like to respond to a post, Ask Science Woman: How do I organize journal articles?, by Science Woman. I think this is a very important topic for all aspiring scholars. Science Woman's advice is excellent. I have just a few suggestions to add....
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:55 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
First, have a look at this (warning, large file): wow It is a PDF file of the unrooted mammal evolution tree that came from this research. Now, here is a question for you. There is a rumor that this graphic or something like it has...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:50 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Text based internet browsing; Brute-force dual booting; Gnome may kill KDE; Backup your Linux stuff....
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science News
From Bird Flu to Global Warming......
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Category: Orangutan
Nonja, who was born on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and lived in Miami since 1983, was found dead Saturday morning, said Ron Magill, spokesman for the Miami Metro Zoo. "Everybody's very sad, especially with an animal like an orangutan," Magill said. "You see a...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cosmos
I like the way this address spacetime instead of merely space. Or time . Do you recognize the languages i the background?...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:03 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate Change
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:11 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
A town full of crazy people in Louisanna got fed up with having their telephone exchange be "666" because of the link between this sequence of numbers and the devil. So they got their exchanged changed to 749. This is very funny....
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Category: Robots
Robot that sees you, draws you. It's the "see and draw" robot ...; Robot Draws Portraits, Holds Pen Like I Do Robotic researcher Sylvain Calinon developed a cute little robot that draws portraits. He sits there until he detects a face in his field of...
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Category: Year in Review
I'm not going to do the year in review. I mean, why would you care what I think about that. But there are a few out there that may be worth a look.......
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 29, 2007
Category: Race and Racism
The Michigan State University (MSU) chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has announced that it will be hosting a lecture by Jared Taylor in March. Taylor, who is not particularly well-known in the mainstream, is a prominent racist who's New Century Foundation and American...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:00 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science News
Alert: Stolen Beef Tainted. Don't buy stolen beef; Fresh bird flu outbreak; Bluetongue spreads to Scotland; Japan to Apologize for Tainted Blood...
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Category: Blogospherics
Sandwalk: Do Fundamentalist Christians Actively Resist Learning? Laelaps: Evolution's Arrow Adventures in Ethics and Science: From the annals of academic dishonesty: a bad way to fish for extra points. Respectful Insolence: Latest celebrity drinking the Kool Aid of vaccine pseudoscience: Donald Trump Pharyngula: Torture --...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cat
This is exactly what happens in our house every morning, except that there are two of them: [hat tip: Tangled Up in Blue Guy] Also in Tangled Up, this important post on No Beer in America....
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals
Is here, at The Modulator...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Atheism
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
From Slashot: "Computers and handheld devices running default GNU Linux or Unix OSes have swept Amazon's 'best of' list for 2007, according BusinessWire.com for 28 December 2007. Best selling computer? The Nokia Internet Tablet PC, running Linux. Best reviewed computer? The Apple MacBook Pro notebook...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:29 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cosmos
The NEAR project ... they are the ones that keep track of objects in space that might hit us ... now predicts that the asteroid earlier reported to be on its way to Mars will likely miss the Red Planet. Have a look:...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
You can't use closed source proprietary software such as Mathematica for research because that would cause there to be a Black Box in your Research Methodology? But you didn't listen. Now, Miquel Pais (via the Quantum Pontiff) reports a bug in Mathematica that can't be...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:56 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
Netscape was the first browser. Then came along Internet Explorer, and Microsoft did all sorts of evil things to Netscape to run it out of existence. But it didn't work. Netscape continued to exist, and along the way, AOL acquired Netscape as a commercial product,...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:03 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
According to the New Hampshire State Republican Party and an Associated Press report, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul will be excluded from an upcoming forum of Republican candidates to be broadcast by Fox News on January 6, 2008. [source]...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:38 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospherics
Ron Paul: Quackery enabler Lately, bloggers, including some of my fellow ScienceBloggers, have been expressing various concerns about the phenomenon that is Ron Paul, the Republican candidate who's ridden a wave of discontent to do surprisingly well in the polls leading up to the Iowa...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
On steroids.......
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate
Arctic Ice Melt Top Canadian Concern (finally, they stop worrying about what the Americans are up to...; EPA to cut mercury in fish....
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:10 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
Happy Birthday Aardvarchaeology!...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:09 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospherics
is HERE!!!...
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Category: Carnivals
is HERE...
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Category: Global Warming
These two videos are part of a "year in review post" that I'm including in my Review of the Year in Review Posts. My review will be supplied at the end of the year, like it should be. But, I thought you might enjoy seeing...
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Category: Health
Listeriosis from milk kills two in Massachusetts; Beef recalled in New Jersey; New drug fights TB and other infections;...
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December 28, 2007
Category: Politics
President Bush's boyhood home was severely damaged by a fire.I nvestigators in Odessa now believe an arsonist is to blame. [source]...
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Category: Religion
photo:CNN ...Following the Christmas celebrations, Greek Orthodox priests set up ladders to clean the walls and ceilings of their part of the church, which is built over the site where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born. But the ladders encroached on space...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
After slaughtering their parents before their eyes, Joseph McEnroe apologized to his girlfriend's young niece and nephew before shooting both point-blank in the head... Joe was a home boy here in the Twin Cities. According to the Star Tribune, the killer's mom tells us "her...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Visitors to the Institute for Creation Research Web page can quickly deduce that the organization, founded in California and recently transplanted to Dallas, is a Christian group dedicated to spreading the doctrine of divine creation of the world and challenging the teaching of evolution as...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
The AIR is now available on line as an open access journal. This paragon of scientific publishing has been central in shaping our view of the world for a long time, and it is now finally available to all to enjoy, lean from, and .......
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:29 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospherics
is Here....
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
... Or so intoned the Janesville, Wisconsin student during show and tell just before he started ripping his Bible to shreds. The school responded to this as a "safety matter."...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:57 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Possibly even exceeding Ron Paul in his moronosity. Most recently, he has shown himself clueless in matters of foreign policy. People who questioned my view of foreign policy probably need go back and read the speech that I delivered back in Washington in September. ...[where...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
Well, actually, you are supposed to try this at home. I was wondering what I was going to do with that extra 150 ohm resister I had laying around... Blu-Ray Laser Phaser! - video powered by Metacafe...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals
is HERE....
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Other
[hat tip: The Thinking Blog]...
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Category: Other
You may get bored half way through and turn it off. Don't turn it off....
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How to convert a YouTube or Google streaming video into a file that you can put in your pocket and carry around with you. The Problem: Streaming Video is not enough. Do you need to save a Youtube or Google video into a file? I'm...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:00 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Other
Cool! A Wii! A Wii is a great way to deal with the problem of TV being a bad influence. Instead of sitting around watching TV, you INTERACT with your TV in a physically demanding way! It is actually GOOD for you! Watch! Ooops. The...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:18 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Beethoven Home court advantage matters when it comes to food and reproduction. So, where does a big male ape sit? Wherever he wants to.... ... and if you are an adult male chimp, this means in the same part of the forest that you used...
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December 27, 2007
Category: Creationism
The Texas Newspaper Star-Telegram has published a series of barely articulate rants regarding evolution (hat tip IIDB)....
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:00 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
Yesterday, President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) which, among else, mandates the repository of all NIH-funded research into PubMedCentral within at most 12 months after publication.... Read all about it at Blog around the Clock...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:22 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Aves (birds)
Alopochen aegyptiacus ... note, this is Egyptian goose, not Egypt goose. But it is Canada goos goose, not Canadian goose....
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:48 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
