Archives for March, 2008
Expelled The Sequel
Posted by Greg Laden on March 21, 2008 Many more comments and posts on Expelled, the Sequel. On Richard Dawkins Net PZ Myers gets Expelled On Talk Origins. I think in the end, the movie Expelled will have less written about it than The Day They Expelled PZ. And, getchyer LOL PZ and Dawkins Pic’s here! Partial Loss of Face Recognition may be…
Carnival Business: Boneyard
Posted by Greg Laden on March 21, 2008 Please note that the Boneyard Web Carnival is looking for submissions RIGHT NOW. HURRY! CLICK HERE
The Flores Hobbits Were Members of a Separate Species
Posted by Greg Laden on March 21, 2008 … according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study compares skull measurements of Flores material with a wide range of other hominid data and concludes that Flores cannot be clustered with Homo sapiens. This is the first published study that takes into account how size affects…
PZ Myers Expelled, Gains Sainthood
Posted by Greg Laden on March 21, 2008 As you have undoubtedly heard, a group of evolutionary biologists and evolutionary biology supporters attended a showing of the movie Expelled, in the Twin Cities, last night. This group included the very famous Richard Dawkins and the only slightly less famous PZ Myers. PZ and Richard, in fact, were together in line, along with PZ’s…
Sandhill Crane Cam
Posted by Greg Laden on March 21, 2008 Well, it is migration season for many birds. The other day as we drove north to the cabin, we came across a flock of what I’m pretty sure were tundra swans resting on their long journey north. We are lucky to spend a lot of time in a major flyway for migratory birds, and we…
Board Room Gender Gap
Posted by Greg Laden on March 21, 2008 A new study out of Cornell measures gender balance, or lack thereof, across the 100 largest publicly held companies in New York State. The findings indicate that while about half the workers in these companies are women, less than 15 percent of the board and executive officer positions are held by women. Figure Caption: Women…
Myers Throws Self on Hand Grenade, Saves Evolutionary Biologist
Posted by Greg Laden on March 21, 2008 This is unbelievable!!!! I am outraged yet not surprised. I am incensed yet entertained. I am frightened yet ever determined to cast off the yoke of oppression. And so on. You MUST GO HERE NOW and READ THIS. You will laugh, you will cry, you will punch a fist through the wall, and you will…
Carnivals gone wild!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on March 20, 2008 The Carnival of Education # 163: Spring Break Edition is up at So, You Want to Teach?
Black Guy Asks for Change
Posted by Greg Laden on March 20, 2008 According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change. “The time for change is now,” said the black guy, yelling at everyone within earshot for 20 straight minutes, practically begging America for change. “The need for change is stronger and…
Political satire avec music
Posted by Greg Laden on March 20, 2008 But wait, there’s more….
Oh what a tangled bank we weave
Posted by Greg Laden on March 20, 2008 Tangled bank number 101 is now up at Tangled Up in Bank Guy (that’s not really the name of the blog, but I thought I’d try a little play on words there…
Has Anyone Seen Governor Pawlenty Lately?
Posted by Greg Laden on March 19, 2008 A man got into the Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management office in downtown St. Paul last week and defecated in several rooms, police said Monday. The incident happened about 1:30 p.m. Friday in a basement office area of 444 Cedar St., according to a police report. The man went in through an emergency exit…
Squat Toilets, Sexy People, and The Nature of the Internet
Posted by Greg Laden on March 19, 2008 Coturnix, of A Blog Around The Clock, was puzzled to find that one of his blog posts … How to use a Squat Toilet … was receiving a record amount of attention from the internet, after languishing for nearly a year on his blog. His post consists of a photograph of a squat toilet of…
Carnaval des Blogs medicaux
Posted by Greg Laden on March 19, 2008 c’est ici.
Which came first, the mammalian breast or the placenta?
Posted by Greg Laden on March 19, 2008 Indeed, the evolutionary history of the mammalian way of providing nutrients for young is difficult to ascertain on the basis of the usual techniques: Fossils and comparative anatomy. The soft parts involved don’t fossilize well, and there are not enough “intermediates” living today to develop a plausible story of the evolutionary transitions linking egg-laying to…
Nevada Residents and Concerned Citizens: Save the Wesley E. Niles Herbarium!
Posted by Greg Laden on March 19, 2008 Herbaria are important things. They are museums that curate plant samples, and often they do more than that. The Wesley E. Niles Herbarium, connected with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is an important collection of plants focusing on the American Southwest. It also serves University teaching and research functions. A recent example of the…
Political manderings
Posted by Greg Laden on March 19, 2008 The fight continues in Texas; Homophobia is a punishable offense, yet legislators march on in opposition to the already underway 21st century; Some guy named Stephen on homeschooling.
Children can be so post-modern, without even knowing it
Posted by Greg Laden on March 19, 2008 Give one hour to the Earth
Posted by Greg Laden on March 19, 2008 During Earth Hour, you switch off the lights and other non-essential electronic devices. At 8:00 PM March 29th. You’ll save electricity, but more importantly, you’ll be making a point. Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for…
The quality of YouTube biology projects is going up
Posted by Greg Laden on March 18, 2008 Learning the bash shell, continued
Posted by Greg Laden on March 18, 2008 I started this discussion a while back, and not it is time to continue it. The Bourne Again Shell, bash, is the default command-line shell in Ubuntu and many *nix (Unix, Linux, etc.) systems. You can think of the shell as the most direct way to get into your operating system, and you can think…
Blogospherics – Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on March 18, 2008 The internet if full of great stuff to read today. Grrl Scientist (did I put enough “r”‘s in there?) has discovered a new bird species. Well, she didn’t actually discover it, but she is reporting on it. Sharp-eyed scientists have discovered a new species of bird on a remote Indonesian archipelago in the Southern Pacific…
The Shape of Life 1
Posted by Greg Laden on March 18, 2008 Stay tuned, more coming. This episode 8 of the PBS series in six bite sized parts
Arthur Clarke is Dead
Posted by Greg Laden on March 18, 2008 Arthur Clarke, author of a number of important science fiction books, member of the British Interplanetary Society, co-inventor of marvelous technologies, and accomplished scuba diver, has died at the age of 90, in his long time home of Sri Lanka. My favorite book of his was Childhood’s End, which I read when I was about…
Gene Genie Carnival
Posted by Greg Laden on March 18, 2008 The Gene Genie Blog Carnival is up and running at DNADirect Talk. Please go check it out. The next Gene Genie Carnival will be hosted here, at this blog (the one you are reading right now, this one). Please send me your entries! You can use the blog submission form or email them directly to…
Robot Update
Posted by Greg Laden on March 18, 2008 First we have the latest on the space robot: Space Robot Flexes Arms for First Time from PhysOrg.com (AP) — Astronauts flexed the giant arms of the international space station’s new robot for the first time, testing the brakes and maneuvering the appendages into position for a Monday night spacewalk. [...] Then, we have this:
Plant Evolution and Biology Carnival
Posted by Greg Laden on March 18, 2008 … known as Berry Go Round …. will happen here on or abouts the 25th of March. Please get me your posts on plant evolution and biology stuff! You can email me here.
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