Archives for February 26, 2008
Evolution vs. Creationism Blogospherics
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 Wilberforce vs. Darwin; A disgusting Display; Pew Report on Religion; Science in the schools.
“Every Sperm is Sacred” is Sexist
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 … And Mike Huckabee is not standing for it…
New Englanders and Others: Check out the Massachusetts Archaeological Society
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 MAS has played a key role in regional archaeology since its formation, and is one of the oldest and most established avocational and professional groups in archaeology in the US: Since 1939, the MAS has studied the people whose cultural legacy is within the lands we walk upon today. MAS stimulates the study of archaeology…
UC Berkeley Hyena Colony Faces Funding Crisis
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 Go here, to the Behavioral Ecology Blog to learn about this problem. I’ll bed you didn’t know that Berkeley even had a hyena colony. But it is world famous among people who are interested in such things.
Teachers Gone Wild
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 My wife, a biology teacher, gets crazy in the biology classroom. She is famous for her interpretive dance renditions of numerous cellular processes. The students in the first class of the day reportedly stare in disbelief and roll their eyes, but the students in the other classes throughout the day seem to love it. Several…
Life After Darwin Part 06
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 More Life After Darwin
Obamagram: Polls changing fast
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 Despite McCain and Clinton’s best efforts to turn voters away from Barack Obama, he is surging in the polls.
Evolutionary Blogospherics
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 Intermediate Forms among the Girded Lizards is a post at Tetrapod Zoology: Girdled lizards are endemic to Africa and include about 50 species in four genera: flat-bodied flat lizards Platysaurus, the flattish crag lizards Pseudocordylus, the deeper-bodied, often spiny girdled lizards, zonures or sungazers Cordylus and the serpentiform grass lizards or ground lizards Chamaesaura. Molecular…
Jarvick … Lipitor … Something did not seem right…
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 So a few weeks ago, we were over at Amy and Danny’s for dinner, and somehow Lipitor came up (no, it had nothing to do with the dinner Amy was cooking!). Anyway, Amy said “Why is Jarvick a good person to promote a drug. I mean, that heart didn’t work, right?” Hmm…. Good point, I…
Nature News
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 Hunting Wolves; Killing Elephants
Texas Governor Rick Perry on How to Stop Being Gay … or, how I shook off my homosexuality and learned to love boy scouts….
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 Rick Perry, Eagle Scout, has written a book about the boy scouts, defending their homophobic and anti humanist activism. An Eagle Scout and the father of an Eagle Scout, Perry stresses the importance of Scout values such as being “courteous and kind.” (He is fond of phrases like “gosh” and “jiminy cricket.”) He has received…
Space, the Final (political) Frontier…
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 According to the New York Times, “An Errant Satellite Is Gone, but Questions Linger” … Should the people of the world be breathing a sigh of relief that the risk of a half-ton of frozen, toxic rocket fuel landing who knows where has passed? Or should they be worried about the latest display of the…
Movable Type Bloggers: A Neat Tip
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 This is for Linux users, but there are ways to implement it on Windows and Mac boxes (but you are on your own.) If you use the movable type interface, you will know that when you generate a “Create New Entry” page, the current date is placed in the “Entry Date” filed. But, as time…
Heath News
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 Angst-ridden teens have different brain structures: study from PhysOrg.com It turns out your mother was right: angst-ridden teens really do have something wrong with their heads. [...] Who benefits from antidepressants? from PhysOrg.com A new study published today in PLoS Medicine suggests that antidepressants only benefit some, very severely depressed patients. [...] A Quick Comparison…
The Face Book Thing
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 Well, the Face Book Thing seems to be going fairly well. Scienceblogs.com fanclub now has hundreds of members. My own site has a paltry ten or so, but growing. I hope soon to have eleven. I’ve been going through the Scienceblogs.com fan club list and begging folks from my old home town (Albany, NY), or…
The Robot Takeover is Getting Closer
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 A mind control device … where your mind controls a video game, is soon to be developed, and is obviously the first step in the Robot plan to Take Over the World. Some scary new technology will soon be coming to market: video game controllers that let you use your thoughts rather than your hands.…
Welcome Ed …
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 The latest new Science Blogs Blogger. Go read his new post, Effects of invading island rats ripple across land and sea, at Not Exactly Rocket Science.
Human Evolution News
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2008 A new genetic analysis of people from around the world adds further confirmation to the African origin of humans. The study of genetic details from 938 individuals from 51 populations provides evidence of how people are related and different, researchers led by Richard M. Myers of Stanford University report in Friday’s issue of the journal…
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