Archives for April 11, 2008
Genomicron Is One
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Happy Birthday Genomicron. You are one year old today!
Bats and Shade Grown Coffee
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Birds have always gotten a fair amount of the credit for ridding shade grown coffee plants of various insect pests. But a new study now shows that bats have a huge positive impact in this area as well. The study also shows something else interesting: These insect eating bats often use a “perch and wait”…
Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right.…
Expelled! Reviewed in Time
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 And the review is very negative. Of Expelled, as well as of PZ Myers and atheists in general. The man made famous by Ferris Bueller, … quickly wades into waters far too deep for him. He makes all the usual mistakes nonscientists make whenever they try to take down evolution, asking, for example, how something…
Cambodia’s Water Birds
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Storks, pelicans, ibises, and other rare waterbirds from Cambodia’s famed Tonle Sap region are making a comeback, thanks to round-the-clock protection by a single team of park rangers. In a project established by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Ministry of Environment of the Royal Government of Cambodia, former hunters and egg collectors have…
Johnny Lee: Wii Remote hacks
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Finally, something really important to blog about: Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.
Monique Davis is Sorry
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Worst Person in the World Monique Davis, who has a thing against atheists, apologized for her recent rant against atheism. after widespread public criticism. She called the object of her tirade, Rob Sherman, and said she was sorry. Sherman says Davis told him she “took out her frustrations and emotions on me and that she…
It is said that these girls could serve life in prison
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Because they are being charged with kidnapping. (The “are social networking sites evil” poll is here.)
Will the Earth be sucked into a tiny black hole in June?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 It is said that scientists involved in the Manhattan Project to engineer and implement the first nuclear bombs seriously considered the possibility that such a bomb could initiate a chain reaction that would destroy the Earth. Now it is being claimed that the production of miniature black holes by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at…
Ellison Endorses Madia
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Minnesota Third Congressional District hopeful, Democratic candidate Ashwin Madia, was endorsed by Fifth District’s Keith Ellison. You will remember that Keith Ellison attained sudden national attention when he was first elected to congress last year because he is not a Christian, and many right wing fanatics thought maybe he’d swear his oath of office on…
Stunning Politics (Adult Content)
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 It had been assumed that Hillary Clinton would do very well in Pennsylvania against Barack Obama, continuing the relative ambiguity of which candidate should be chosen at the Democratic National Convention. However, recent polls show that Obama is closing the lead, and is now probably well within 10 percentage points of Clinton, with about 10…
France Invents New Kind of Cheese: It’s People!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Le Petit Singly, a French company, now produces cheese made from human breast milk. And it is not really new. Apparently they’ve been doing this for some time now. “Small Singly is the only cheese made from a woman’s breast milk, and has remained for a long time in the shadows of the more ordinary…
Carnivals
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Carnival of the Blue Eleven is at Zooillogix Carnival of Space # 49 is at WillGater.com Carnival of Homeschooling # 119 is at Pondering Heart Friday Ark #186 is at Modulator The 166th Carnival of Education is at The Elementary Educator Grand Rounds Volume 4 No. 29 is at Dr. Wes 57th Carnival of the…
Jakob Trollback: Rethinking the music video
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 What would a music video look like if it were purely directed by the music? Not driven by a concept, nor by a desire to build an image, but purely as an expression of a great song? Designer Jakob Trollback shares the results of his experiment in the form. The song is “Moonlight in Glory,”…
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