Archives for January 15, 2008
Science News Tidbits
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 US Births Up; Emergency Room Waits Longer; Nasa Seeking Better Moon Ride; New Bird Flu Outbreak; Distant Galaxy Has Life Stuff; Cool Underwater Volcano;
Breaking News on Texas Creationism Degree
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 Texas higher education officials announced today that they have postponed action on a Bible-oriented group’s proposal to offer a master’s degree in science education. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board had been scheduled to consider the proposal by the Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research at a meeting Jan. 24. But Eddy Miller, dean of the…
Strange Keyboards
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 This is a virtual keyboard, just a laser image on your desk. See the others in the list of 10 Strange Keyboards, here.
Just In Case
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 It’s pretty easy to get stuck without a bottle opener … But you’ve always got a chainsaw handy….
New EU Probe of Microsoft Monopolist Practices
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 If there’s a sense of déjà vu permeating a rather massive corporate campus in Redmond, Washington right now, it wouldn’t be surprising. The European Commission, which regulates competition for the European Union, today announced a brand new antitrust investigation against Microsoft. Read about it here.
Evangelistic Film Not OK for Public Schools
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 From Americans United for the Separation of Church and State: A church-produced evangelical Christian movie is aimed at evangelism and is inappropriate for public schools, Americans United for Separation of Church and State has told Alabama educators. After receiving complaints, Americans United has urged officials at Tuscaloosa City Schools to stop showing the film “Facing…
Minnesotans: Would You Like to Caucus for Al?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 Minnesota is, as my cousin from Colorado was telling me the other day, one of the irrelevant states in the current presidential primary process. Maybe so. But the process is not irrelevant with respect to other issues at hand. Everybody I know is tired of our senior Senator, Norm Coleman, but we also like the…
Open Lab 2007
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 …an anthology of great posts from the science bloosphere, is now available for you to enjoy. Please visit this post to get all the details.
Campaign Update
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 The Latest Political News from key sources such as PZ Myers and Jon Stewart.
Jan Chipchase: Our cell phones, ourselves
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. Along the way, he’s made some unexpected discoveries: about the novel ways illiterate people interface with their cellphones, or the role the cellphone can sometimes play in commerce, or…
Genes are only part of the story: ncRNA does stuff
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 You know that organisms develop, grow, and function in part because genes code for proteins that form the building blocks of life or that function as working bioactive molecules (like enzymes). You also know that most DNA is junk, only a couple percent actually coding for anything useful. Most importantly, however, you know that everything…
Oekologie Blog Carnival
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 The One Year Anniversary Edition is here, at the Infinite Sphere.
Big Bro Wants to Read Your Email
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a “walk in the park,” according to an interview published in the New Yorker’s print edition today. Read about it here.
Science News Tidbits
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 Dinosaur tracks; Searching for water on the moon; Pollution causes sperm mutations; Beetles may wipe out lodgepoles; Shock therapy;
New York City Floded By Global Warming?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 New York City underwater ? CNC Breaking News – Aug 2051Uploaded by CNCNews
Blogospherics – Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 PZ Myers addresses the issue of prayer, or more exactly, an experiment in which University of Michigan students are going to try 40 days of prayer and see what happens. My prediction: They get blogged about a lot. Teenage pregnancy in Mesozoic dinosaurs at Tetrapod Zoology. Go check out the Invention Contest at Effect Measure.…
Mass Eagle Death
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 We are seeing odd and mixed reports from Alaska, where it is said that perhap more than fifty eagles “dove into” a truck full of fish guts in the vicinity of Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. The fish guts were from Ocean Beauty Seafoods. Twenty eagles died during the incident, about 30 were cleaned up and…
Good Morning from Minnesota…
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 While Duluth is having a balmy morning, just over 10F, here in the twin cities we are hovering a few below zero. Despite the cold, the ice is simply not as thick as people expect it to be. Bradley Erikson’s truck went through the ice on Leech Lake last night. Bradley got out of the…
More Bill Foster
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 If you follow the creationist news stories from around the country, you get a lot of the same exact thing over and over again, and it is hard to identify the novel or persistent elements in the flow of information. But increasingly it is clear that Bill Foster of St. Petersburg Florida is somewhat novel…
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