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January 31, 2008

Poster Child for Gun Law Reform Convicted

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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Naked Mans and Nuns Riles Some (but not all) Catholics

When life and art collide ......

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Tatiana Update

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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Florida Yahoos Acting Out Against Evolutionary Biology

I wish we had more details of this story, but this is what we know so far:...

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Are We In The Anthropocene? No.

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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Evolution, Adaptation, and Robustness

Category: Technology

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January 30, 2008

Great microbiologists

Can you hear me wee beastie? Can you hear me?...

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Human Evolution on Trial - Species - by Terry Toohill

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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"Not everyone can do what we do.."

Category: Cat

I'm talking about herdin' cats, bro...

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Paola Antonelli: Treating design as art

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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Biology of Color Preference

Category: Anthropology

Color is funny. Anthropologists have long known that different cultures have different relationships, linguistically and in day to day practice, to the color spectrum. For example, the Efe Pygmy Hunter-Gatherers of the Ituri Forest describe things as white, black, or red, and that's it. They...

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John Edwards will drop out of race this PM

Category: Politics

... according to news reports flying around the airwaves. It will be interesting to see what happens to those currently supporting him. It is likely that if Edwards does not endorse anyone, his supporters would drift to Clinton, since it is believed that Edwards has...

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Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival 33

Welcome to the Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival #33, 'specializing' in the four fields of anthropology. The previous edition of 4SH can be found at Testimony of the Spade, and the next edition will be hosted by Our Cultural World. The main page for...

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We are the laughing stock of the world!

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January 29, 2008

Cool Stuff, News Stuff

Category: Science News

A Biology News Browser; Green Porno; Naked Mole-Rats and Chili Pepper; 3D from 2D; New View of Middle Earth Stuff...

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War on Science - intelligent design - Part 5

"Dover may be the first of many battles to follow..."...

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Get Your Own Death Ray

Category: Technology

The Torch is the world's brightest and most powerful flashlight. It is capable of melting plastic, lighting paper on fire within seconds, and if you like, fry an egg or a marshmallow on a stick....

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Home Schooling = Lower Taxes

This is the first time I've seen this argument made, in a letter to the editor in LJWorld of Lawrence, Kansas:...

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Four Stone Hearth

Category: Blogospherics

Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology blog carnival, will be hosted here tomorrow. Please send me your entries! I've got a lot of good ones so far, so expect an interesting ride. greg at gregladen.com or laden002 at umn.edu...

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Wife Swap and Home Schooling

You may not want to miss this (Feb 13th) episode of Wife Swap:...

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Creationists Acting Badly, as usual...

Creationists Acting Badly, as usual... [Hat Tip: Pz Myers]...

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Creationist Buffoonery and its Dangerous Implications

Lee Salisbury, a former evangelical preacher, comments on evolution and creationism....

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Ethical Implications of Robots in War

Category: Robots

From Slashdot: Schneier points out an interesting (and long, 117-pages) paper on the ethical implications of robots in war: "This report has provided the motivation, philosophy, formalisms, representational requirements, architectural design criteria, recommendations, and test scenarios to design and construct an autonomous robotic system architecture...

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Sheila Patek: Measuring the fastest animal on earth

Category: Evolutionary Biology

UC Berkeley biologist Sheila Patek gives a wide-ranging talk on the effort to measure the hyperfast movements of peacock mantis shrimp heels using high-speed video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second. She and her team slowed down the movements of these amazing animals and...

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Open Source Technology Does Not Have Ads

And neither does a lot of proprietary technology. But the possibility that ads will show up on either type of technology is obviously very different. Now, we are about to see add supported P2P services....

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Satellite may hit earth

Category: Cosmos

You've probably already heard that a US spy satellite known as USA-193 is no longer able to keep itself up because the software on board has failed. This is a secret spy satellite so we don't at present know what the software was (any guesses?)....

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Sea lions massacred in Galapagos

Ecuadorean officials are investigating the slaughter of 53 sea lions from the Galapagos Islands nature reserve, which were found with their heads caved in. [source] Thanks, Coturnix, for the tip....

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OMG, Larry and George Sittin' In a Tree...

Larry Craig, or as we call him in Minnesota, Happy Feet Larry, stepped in where Michelle Bachmann could not perform, in an overt act of erotic love with the President of the United States, George Bush....

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Popup Books

Category: Technology

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January 28, 2008

War on Science - intelligent design - Part 4

"The first witness called by attorneys for the parents was Dr. Kenneth Miller"...

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Raul Midon: "All the Answers" and "Tembererana"

Category: Other

Guitarist and singer Raul Midon performs "All the Answers" in a world premiere at TED2007. "This is a song I wrote about the meaning of technology," he says, and he asks his listeners: What will we do with all this information we have at our...

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Interview with Karen James

Category: Darwin

of The Beagle Project! Here, at A Blog Around the Clock. The Beagle Project is Here....

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HURRY UP! Home School Science Fair Deadline Is Almost Here!!!

The Twin Cities Creation Science Association Home School Science Fair, held each year in February, in Har Mar Mall, Roseville, Minnesota, will occur this year on Saturday & Sunday, February 16 and 17, 2008. The Application Deadline is January 31st, 2008 ($5.00 entry fee) You...

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Your Brain on Jessica Banks

Category: Technology

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January 27, 2008

What would be worse, Crows or Robots taking over the world?

Category: Technology

What would be worse, Crows or Robots taking over the world?...

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Marvin Minsky at Gadgetoff 2007

Category: Robots

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On the rare occasion that I find myself in a church ...

Category: Other

... I usually become very nauseated or fall asleep. (If I was Woody Allen there would be a joke about sex right about here) Anyway, I'm with Bill......

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Ted Kennedy to Endorse Obama

Category: Politics

Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts will endorse Senate colleague Barack Obama for president, party officials confirmed Sunday. The endorsement will be announced Monday in Washington, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for the record....

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Advertisements from the Paleolithic and Beyond

Category: Other

I've chosen one to whet your appetite: See the rest at Laelaps....

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Proof that evolution can create complexity

So there, 'intelligent' cdesign proponentists, eat your hearts out....

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Monstrous Hope: Reply to Coturnix

This is my reply to a post by Coturnix called The Hopeless Monster? Not so fast!...

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War on Science - intelligent design - Part 3

"Eventually, I came up with a name for it. I called it 'irreducible complexity'"...

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So, it turns out it is called "Counterknowledge"

"Counterknowledge," I would have thought, includes things like how a particular customer likes her eggs, or if another customer gets antsy if he does not get his refill right way. You know, like in a diner. Counter knowledge. But it turns out that Counterknowledge is...

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J.J. Abrams: The mystery box

Category: Other

J.J. Abrams traces his love of the unseen mystery -- the heart of Alias, Lost, and the upcoming Cloverfield -- back to its own magical beginnings, which may or may not include an early obsession with magic, the love of a supportive grandfather, or his...

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How to catch a herd of elephants

You need: a pair of binoculars a pair of tweezers a bottle a cork an elephant call....

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Hybrids of Blind Fish Can See

Category: fish

The loss of sight in cave dwelling species is widely known. We presume that since sight in utter darkness has no fitness value, the mutation of a gene critical to the development of the sense of sight is not selected against. Over time, any population...

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January 26, 2008

War on Science - intelligent design - Part 2

"Twelve mentions of Charles Darwin in a 1,400 page textbook..."...

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Gun Control

In the US, we (the general citizenry) are never going to agree on gun control. I have a solution....

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Friday Ark 175

Category: Carnivals

is here...

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The Buttocks is not an excretory organ

... but it might be a sexual organ... The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue....The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as...

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