Archives for December 29, 2007
Michigan State U: Look out for this
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 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 Renaissance publication are devoted to pursuing “scientific” justifications for racism.…
Science News Tidbits: Health
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 Alert: Stolen Beef Tainted. Don’t buy stolen beef; Fresh bird flu outbreak; Bluetongue spreads to Scotland; Japan to Apologize for Tainted Blood
Blogospherics – Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 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 — what’s it good for? A Blog Around the Clock sadly…
Good Morning. Feed me.
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 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.
Friday Ark 171
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 Is here, at The Modulator
George Carlin, Touched by an Atheist
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 Linux Rules
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 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 PC. Most wished for computer? Asus Eee 4G-Galaxy 7-inch PC…
Rock Likely to Hit Mars, NOT
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 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:
I told you so … open source is better.
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 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 understood because you can’t look under the hood. This is…
Netscape is dead. Long live Netscape.
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 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, and Mozilla branched off of Netscape as an Open Source…
Ron Paul is Out of the Running
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 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]
Blogospherics – Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 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 caucuses and New Hampshire primaries. Thompson’s Ignorant Nativism Fred Thompson…
My Linux Calendar
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 On steroids….
Science News Tidbits
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 Arctic Ice Melt Top Canadian Concern (finally, they stop worrying about what the Americans are up to…; EPA to cut mercury in fish.
Happy Birthday Aardvarchaeology!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 Happy Birthday Aardvarchaeology!
Carnival Of The Godless (Late) Christmas Edition
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 is HERE!!!
I and the Bird #65
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 is HERE
Compare and contrast.
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 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 these videos sooner.
Science News Tidbits: Health
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2007 Listeriosis from milk kills two in Massachusetts; Beef recalled in New Jersey; New drug fights TB and other infections;
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