Archives for January, 2008
Raul Midon: “All the Answers” and “Tembererana”
Posted by Greg Laden on January 28, 2008 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 fingertips? He follows with the sprightly “Tembererana.”
Interview with Karen James
Posted by Greg Laden on January 28, 2008 of The Beagle Project! Here, at A Blog Around the Clock. The Beagle Project is Here.
HURRY UP! Home School Science Fair Deadline Is Almost Here!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on January 28, 2008 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 can register after January 31st at the door for only…
Your Brain on Jessica Banks
Posted by Greg Laden on January 28, 2008 What would be worse, Crows or Robots taking over the world?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 What would be worse, Crows or Robots taking over the world?
Marvin Minsky at Gadgetoff 2007
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 On the rare occasion that I find myself in a church …
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 … 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…
Ted Kennedy to Endorse Obama
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 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. An official close to the senator said the announcement will…
Advertisements from the Paleolithic and Beyond
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 I’ve chosen one to whet your appetite: See the rest at Laelaps.
Proof that evolution can create complexity
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 So there, ‘intelligent’ cdesign proponentists, eat your hearts out.
Monstrous Hope: Reply to Coturnix
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 This is my reply to a post by Coturnix called The Hopeless Monster? Not so fast!
War on Science – intelligent design – Part 3
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 “Eventually, I came up with a name for it. I called it ‘irreducible complexity’”
So, it turns out it is called “Counterknowledge”
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 “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 stuff like creationism, creation science, Scientology, alternative medicine, and so…
J.J. Abrams: The mystery box
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 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 own unopened Mystery Box.
How to catch a herd of elephants
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 You need: a pair of binoculars a pair of tweezers a bottle a cork an elephant call.
Hybrids of Blind Fish Can See
Posted by Greg Laden on January 27, 2008 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 living in darkness will eventually experience experience such mutations, and…
War on Science – intelligent design – Part 2
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 “Twelve mentions of Charles Darwin in a 1,400 page textbook…”
Gun Control
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 In the US, we (the general citizenry) are never going to agree on gun control. I have a solution.
The Buttocks is not an excretory organ
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 … 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 she prepares to take a shower. The scene depicted “multiple,…
Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 In an exclusive preview of his new book, The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language, and the way it expresses the workings of our minds. By analyzing common sentences and words, he shows us how, in what we say and how we say it, we’re communicating much more than we realize.
Darwin Awards
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 Sorry, embedding disabled… but you can see it here.
Creationist Home Schooling Science Fair
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 As PZ Myers reminds us, it is time to start planning for the Twin Cities Home Schooling Science Fair at Har Mar Mall, in Roseville, Minnesota.
Some Sick Atheist Demeans Kids … Photographic Evidence Destroyed
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 This is a repost of an item from my old blog. The Twin Cities Creation Science Fair association usually posts “random” photographs of the children’s exhibits on their web site after the fair is over. You can go and see them for the last few years. (Don’t look for a place to click on this…
Twin Cities Home Schooling Creationist Science Fair Photos
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 This is a repost of an item from my old blog. The Twin Cities Home Schooling Creationist Science Fair at Har Mar Mall in Roseville, Minnesota happened last month. The organization that (at least partly) sponsors this event (Twin Cities Creation Science) usually posts photographs of the science fair, but this year they got into…
Home School Creationist Science Fair: Har Mar Mall Feb 17 and 18 2007
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 This is a repost of an item from my old blog. The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge. Proverbs 1:7 This is an Absodoodly-don’t miss event! Har Mar Mall, Rosedale District Roseville Minnesota Feb 17 and 18 2007 Exhibits must be set up between 8:30 and 10:00 am Saturday and will remain up…
If you are eating or driking something now, don’t read this.
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 I’m serious. You can’t see this post until you put down your coffee and make sure your airways are clear. Then you can click on the heading and laugh, and cry, and everything…
David Pogue: A 4-minute medley on the music wars
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 New York Times tech columnist David Pogue is back with a satirical mini-medley that explains the legal and social history ofmusic and media on the Internet in 4 minutes.
Scienceblogs.com Gets a New Guy
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 Deep Sea News has a new guy, Kevin Zelnio. Welcome Kevin!
Open Access Humor
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 Yes, even serious topics like Open Access can be funny. From Vimeo, moments from the SPARACRL forum. You will laugh, you will cry.
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