Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff
My name is Greg Laden. You can find out about me here, contact me here, and for all the gory details, have a look at this...
January 31, 2008
Category: Gun Ownership
In 1998, 13 year old Mitchell Johnson and his 11 year old buddy Andrew Golden gunned down four students aged 11 and 12 and English Teacher Shannon Wright, and wounded 10 other people, at Jonesboro Westside Middle School. They had pulled the fire alarm to...
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Tatiana was the tiger that leaped from its enclosure in the San Francisco Zoo, killing one and wounding others. Details of the investigation have been released, and apparently, the tiger was taunted....
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When life and art collide ......
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I wish we had more details of this story, but this is what we know so far:...
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Proposals to give the latter part of the present geological period (the Holocene) a new name ... the Anthropocene ... are misguided, scientifically invalid, and obnoxious. However, there is a use for a term that is closely related to "Anthropocene" and I propose that...
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Category: Technology
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January 30, 2008
Can you hear me wee beastie? Can you hear me?...
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This is a very interesting guest post at Remote Central: All species vary through time and space. You don't necessarily look the same as any one of your ancestors. Therefore "like begets like" but each individual can be a bit different. It is impossible for...
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Category: Cat
I'm talking about herdin' cats, bro...
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Category: Other
Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York's MOMA, wants to spread an appreciation of design, in all shapes and forms -- and to remove any stigma of it being considered mere decoration. She takes the TED2007 audience on a whistlestop tour of some design exhibitions...
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