Archives for April 15, 2008
New Science Carnival
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 Molecular and Cell Biology Carnival #1 is up at The Skeptical Alchemist.
Expelled in Texas
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 The following video is on the NCSE Expelled Exposed web site, but that site is getting so much use it is broken! So enjoy the video while we wait for ExpelledExposed to come back up… Expelled exposed is here.
Enough with the evolution and politics
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 Let’s have some LOL cats… see more crazy cat pics But wait, there’s more…
Carnivals
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 The April 15, 2008 edition of Books Carnival is at The Book’s Den. The “To Hell With Expelled Blog Carnival!” will be held at Dinosaurs and The Bible: A Creationist’s Fairy Tale. Please send your entries by April 17th.
Australia sings for Lebanon
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 Because Pangea Day is Coming.
Expelled Blogswarm
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 Bloggers: consider joining the April 18th Anti-Expelled Blogswarm. This blogswarm promotes trashing the makers of the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and their anti-science agenda on the first day of the movie’s release, Friday, April 18, 2008. Details here.
Super Laser
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 QUEST visits the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, where scientists will soon aim the world’s largest laser at a target the size of a pencil eraser. The goal? Nuclear fusion — and, they say, the answer to the world’s clean energy needs.
Blogospherics – Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 An examination of the split bewteen the social sciences and the humanities, from a person who is centered in the humanities with a strong interest and involvement in science: Lab-lit-a! It has surprised a lot of people who know me to find out the extent of my interest in science – in particular astronomy, geology,…
Expelled Exposed: But Wait, There’s More!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 I’ve already announced to you, twice, the emergence of a new web site called “Expelled Exposed” developed by the National Center for Science Education. Chances are you already went and looked at the site. But, as of a few minutes ago, the site has been totally refined and updated. The site that is now up…
John Wheeler is Dead
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 John Wheeler may have been one of the few living individuals who actually worked with Einstein, until his death at the age of 96 two days ago. He is famous for his work on the Unified Field Theory (which did not come to fruition), the Harrison-Wheeler equation which has to do with high-density nuclear matter…
Elephants Were Aquatic
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 That elephants have an aquatic ancestry has been suspected for some time now. Moreover, the idea of elephant aquatic origins and elephant origins in general is part of a growing realization that many of the world’s aquatic mammals originated in a couple of regions of Africa that were for a very long time enormous inland…
Academic Freedom Bills: Be Alarmed. Be Very Alarmed
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2008 “Academic Freedom” bills seem to come in two flavors: Those that protect students from the possibility of learning certain things, and those that protect subversive teachers from getting in trouble for being bad teachers. In both cases, they are bills typically introduced into state legislatures by conservative republicans expressing concern with the Liberal Bias. There…
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