Archives for February 29, 2008
Creationism, Stupidity, Linked
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 According to a poll this week, approximately 31 percent of surveyed Americans believe Roger Clemens is telling the truth about never taking performance-enhancing drugs. This is about the same percentage of Americans who believe in creationism, and still insist George Bush is doing a good job. And here’s my theory: These are all the same…
My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 That is the title of the First Place science fair project from a baptist science fair. The description of the project: Cassidy Turnbull (grade five) presented her uncle, Steve. She also showed photographs of monkeys and invited fairgoers to note the differences between her uncle and the monkeys. She tried to feed her uncle bananas,…
Carnivals
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 Carnival of Education # 160 Friday Ark # 180 Carnival of the Liberals #59
The Origin of the Chicken
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 Where and when were chickens domesticated? From whence the humble chicken? Gallus gallus is a domesticated chicken-like bird (thus, the name “chicken”) that originates in southeast Asia. Ever since Darwin we’ve known that the chicken originated in southeast Asia, although the exact details of which one or more of several possible jungle fowls is the…
Two Cell Level Animations
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 are here: HIV infection at Wissen schafft Kommunikatioin Other cellular stuff (an oldie but a goodie) at WeiterGen!
Ricin
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 At this moment, there is a guy laid up in the hospital in Vegas with ricin poisoning. A stash of ricin has been found in his hotel room/apartment. His dog is dead (not sure why but probably due to lack of water and food) and a couple of other pets are either dead or not…
Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft’s Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft’s new WorldWide Telescope — a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe. (Yes, it’s the technology that made Robert…
We ain’t outta Texas yet … Creationist Stacked School Board Looms on the Horizon
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 It turns out that there are TWO (not just the previously reported Barney Maddox) distinct threats to the delicate pro- vs. anti-science balance on the Texas School Board. I had earlier alerted you to trouble brewing in Texas, with Full Blown Creationist Nuthead Barney Maddox poised to take the swing seat on the Board of…
Microsoft Execs Struggled with Vista
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 Microsoft Execs Struggled with Vista Emails show Microsoft’s Vista problems from PhysOrg.com E-mails suggest Microsoft executives struggled to make Windows Vista work on their own computers after it was released, a published report said. [...]
When the Maya sang the blues …
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 … it was time to skip town. I’m going to Mayaland in a few weeks. I know nothing about Mayan archaeology, even though I attended graduate school at one of the world’s premier locals for the study of Mesoamerican archaeology. Since I was working towards a double PhD (in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology) I was…
The navel is starting to attract a crowd
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 Janet Stemwedel provides an interesting and well reasoned reaction to the recent criticisms from BlaBlaBlog about the insularity and generally evil nature of Scienceblogs.com. Janet is merely a puppet in this case. We had a big meeting last night in the secret clubhouse and decided how to react to this biting criticism, assembled a document,…
Check out this navel, baby.
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 Janet Stemwedel provides an interesting and well reasoned reaction to the recent criticisms from BlaBlaBlog about the insularity and generally evil nature of Scienceblogs.com. Janet is merely a puppet in this case. We had a big meeting last night in the secret clubhouse and decided how to react to this biting criticism, assembled a document,…
Peer Review on Science Blogs
Posted by Greg Laden on February 29, 2008 This has existed for a while (a couple of weeks?): A new scienceblogs.com feed for blogs addressing peer reviewed research. You can see the feed here at the Sb RSS feed page (from which you can subscribe or whatever you do with your feeds). So, together with things like Ask a Science Blogger and the…
, which is now available for the 
