Archives for December 21, 2007
Holiday Shopping Tip #4
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 I’ll just show you some of the reviews of this product, and then give you the link, and I’m sure you will purchase one instantly!!!!
Blogospherics: Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 Enjoy…
My Linux Calendar
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 Dec 21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 Dec 21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days Dec 21 Women gain the right to vote in South Australia, 1894 Dec 21 Women gain the right to hold political office in South Australia, 1894 Dec 21 Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore,…
Blogospherics: Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 A short list of current posts you won’t want to miss…
Is it a good thing or is it something more equine in nature?
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 Please go check this out and come back and tell me what you think….. Top Evangelical Scientist Joins Science Debate 2008 Push I honestly hope it is a good thing…
Candidates on SNL
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 One of these pols is not like the other. One of these pols is not the same.
Another Public School Teacher Goes Over the Line
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 I have great respect for public school teachers. Hey, I married one! Mainly, of course, because I respect her. But they are not all good. Some of them are bad…
Coulter on Huckabee on Darwin
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 … and some other stuff. Like sodomy.
Roland Martin, sorry to offend, but you are an offensive dit
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 Roland S. Martin is a CNN commentator who is coming late to the War on Christmas. The name Roland Martin reminds me of Rowan and Martin. I’m pretty sure that is why Rowan S. Martin uses the “S.” .. so people don’t think of Rowan and Martin when they hear his name. Rowan and Martin…
Heritability of Magical Powers Investigated
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 A multilocus model with a dominant gene for magic might exist, controlled epistatically by one or more loci, possibly recessive in nature. Magical enhancers regulating gene expressionmay be involved, combined with mutations at specific genes implicated in speech and hair colour such as FOXP2 and MCR1. The most important thing about this study is not…
Humor and Hormones
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 Humour appears to develop from aggression caused by male hormones, according to a study published in this week’s Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal…. Makes total sense to me. And if you think I’m kidding, you can stuff it.
The Bahamas Yield Amazing Fossil Finds
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 Plant and animal fossils recently discovered from an island in the Bahamas tell a story of habitat change and human involvement in local extinction.
Firefox 3 Beta
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 Firefox 3 Beta is released…
Long Lived the Queen
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 No, no, she didn’t die. My past-tensing of the verb “to live” (sorry about the verbing of the noun “tense”) is a clever trick. But today is a big day in British History.
Now they’re banning the books
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 The Catholic Church has repressed positive reviews of the movie The Golden Compass, and has encouraged people to not see the movie. Representatives of Catholic groups have spoken out forcefully, on the verge of Holy War Level Talk, against the movie and the book. Now we year news of an event that started to play…
A Step Towards Defeating Malaria
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 A lectin is a funny little protein that seems to be used in a lot of biological systems. They bind to sugars, and one of the roles they play is inhibition of “agglutination” … clumping, or gluing together … of other molecules. A sea cucumber is an echinoderm that lives in the ocean. It looks…
Happy Birthday Shelley!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2007 Shelley is 28, but everybody forgot her birthday. Please stop by and wish her a happy birthday, here. Thank you.
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