Archives for January 29, 2008
Cool Stuff, News Stuff
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 A Biology News Browser; Green Porno; Naked Mole-Rats and Chili Pepper; 3D from 2D; New View of Middle Earth Stuff
War on Science – intelligent design – Part 5
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 “Dover may be the first of many battles to follow…”
Get Your Own Death Ray
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 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.
Home Schooling = Lower Taxes
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 This is the first time I’ve seen this argument made, in a letter to the editor in LJWorld of Lawrence, Kansas:
Four Stone Hearth
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 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
Wife Swap and Home Schooling
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 You may not want to miss this (Feb 13th) episode of Wife Swap:
Creationists Acting Badly, as usual…
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 Creationists Acting Badly, as usual… [Hat Tip: Pz Myers]
Creationist Buffoonery and its Dangerous Implications
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 Lee Salisbury, a former evangelical preacher, comments on evolution and creationism.
Ethical Implications of Robots in War
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 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 capable of the ethical use of lethal force. These first…
Sheila Patek: Measuring the fastest animal on earth
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 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 showed they had the fastest known feeding strike in the…
Open Source Technology Does Not Have Ads
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 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.
Satellite may hit earth
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 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?). It is big enough to not totally burn up in…
Sea lions massacred in Galapagos
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 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.
OMG, Larry and George Sittin’ In a Tree…
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 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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