Archives for January 23, 2008
Look Around You – 0 – Calcium (1/2)
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 In a preview of his next book, Steven Pinker takes on violence. We live in violent times, an era of heightened warfare, genocide and senseless crime. Or so we’ve come to believe. Pinker charts a history of violence from Biblical times through the present, and says modern society has a little less to feel guilty…
New Hominid Skull in China
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 So far no reliable reports seem to be available of a new and potentially interesting, but not necessarily earth-shattering, find in China.
Blogospherics – Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 Texas Has An Undue Influence on Textbooks I have heard that what gets published for Texas schools affects that which gets published for schools around the nation. And considering that Texas politics and school board make up is being swallowed by creationism (fight back, y’all,) well that just isn’t a right thing. Look at what…
Science News Tidbits
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 Cranberries for Urinary Infections; Promising Malaria Vaccine; Space Boomerang; Leptin Evolution; Will Global Warming Reduce US Hurricane Landfalls?; 15 Whales Die in New Zealand
Can science blogging save scientific communication?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 This was one of many questions debated at the Second Annual Scientific Blogging Conference in North Carolina this weekend which I attended together with over 200 other folks who work in scientific communication. When I told my friends I was going to North Carolina this weekend to attend a blogging conference they either said, “cool…
C plus C plus plus equals D
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 For the geeks only: An overview of D, a programming language that gloms C and C++. Here.
Send Me Your Blog Stuff
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 Four Stone Hearth is the four field Anthropology Blog Carnival. I”m hosting it on January 30th. Please send me your anthropology stuff! Email Me Here
LOL Yahoo
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 Check out Tangled Up in Blue Guy’s LOL creationist school board yahoo, here.
Technology News
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 Fixing your Fotos; More on Y2K38; KDE 4
After the End Permian Mass Extinction
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 The end-Permian mass extinction event was the big daddy of all the known mass extinction events. Life on the planet Earth was almost entirely wiped out. A new paper explores the post-extinction recovery of ecological systems.
Disarming Ebola
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 Ebola is a nasty virus that causes an often fatal hemorrhagic fever. It crops up most of the time in The Congo (nee Zaire) but there have been significant outbreaks and isolated cases in The Sudan and South Africa. It is very virulent, passed on via bodily fluids. There may be a cure on the…
New (Old) Science Book: The Bible
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 [Hat Tip: PZ Myers]
Blogospherics – Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 Blurry Vision; Help a guy out with a fossil … Unbelievable fossils, unbelievable movie makers. Lots of other stuff.
Sentient Life Discovered On Mars!
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2008 Careful scanning of recent Mars rover imagery shows a sentient being. The best explanation for this is that the sentient being or beings have been following around the Spirit Rover for some time, always ducking behind a rock when the cameras swung their way. But this photograph shows a sentient being caught in the act:
, which is now available for the 
