Archives for August, 2008
Happy Anniversary To We!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on August 22, 2008 Well, we just got back (to the cabin) from a foray into the relative wilderness of Itasca State Park. I’ll tell you about the park later. Anyway, when we returned, there was a message on my voice mail from commenter Elle. Elle (a pseudonym) has been most recently in Nigeria daily striving to avoid a…
Yet Another Tasteless Racist Demonstration by the Athletes of Some Stupid Country
Posted by Greg Laden on August 22, 2008 Or so it would seem. Hat tip: Phil This blog continues to boycott the Olympics. Hey, I’ve been in the woods for a few days, are the Olympics still going on? Seriously. Are they?
Jonathan Harris: The art of collecting stories
Posted by Greg Laden on August 22, 2008 You don’t have to pass an IQ test to be in the senate
Posted by Greg Laden on August 22, 2008 Chris Abani: Telling stories of our shared humanity
Posted by Greg Laden on August 22, 2008 Louise Leakey: Digging for humanity’s origins
Posted by Greg Laden on August 21, 2008 If the Civil War was not fought over slavery, then why did this happen?
Posted by Greg Laden on August 21, 2008 On August 21, 1863 William C. Quantrill and a band of 450 proslavery yahoos raided Lawrence, Kansas and butchered 182 individuals, including children. Quantrill and his men staged numerous raids into Kansas during the early part of the Civil War. He was quickly labeled an outlaw by the Union for his attacks on pro Union…
When the big cat eats the black man
Posted by Greg Laden on August 21, 2008 It was important that this man was thrown in jail. It is very bad that he is not spending more time there. Let me tell you why. The South African man convicted of feeding one of his ex-workers to the lions is due to be freed on parole shortly, after three years in jail. Mark…
Examining Expelled
Posted by Greg Laden on August 20, 2008 How many things are wrong with this?
This image does NOT need a caption
Posted by Greg Laden on August 20, 2008 An Ossetian protester holds a poster parodying US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a rally outside Nato headquarters in Brussels.
The future of desktop computing
Posted by Greg Laden on August 20, 2008 The Linutop is a tiny Linux computer that you stick onto the back of your flat screen monitor (and hook it to the monitor, obviously), plug in, and go. It makes no noise, produces very little heat, uses hardly any electricity (eight watts) and seems to be reasonably powered. It cost about 300 bucks. There…
Cosmos is on iTunes
Posted by Greg Laden on August 20, 2008 Cosmos, the TV show by Carl Sagen, as in: Anyway, Cosmos is now available on iTunes. If you click this, it will open your iTunes store. So you may not want to click it. Up to you.
Blogospherics
Posted by Greg Laden on August 20, 2008 A Field Guide to Surreal Botany The world of surreal botany has long remained hidden – since the 18th Century, this field of study was often derided even by trailblazing naturalists such as Carolus Linnaeus and Joseph Banks. What are they doing in the Olympics with Honey? (Not eating it, or this would not be…
The Magpie in the Mirror
Posted by Greg Laden on August 20, 2008 A typical adult human recognizes that the image one sees in a mirror is oneself. We do not know how much training a mirror-naive adult requires to do this, but we think very little. When a typical adult macaque (a species of monkey) looks in the mirror, it sees another monkey. Typical adult male macaques…
Bloggers always get the girl.
Posted by Greg Laden on August 20, 2008 Your Anthropological Blog Posts are Needed
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 The Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival, most recently hosted on Almost Diamonds, by Stephanie Zvan, who is Almost an Anthropologist, will be hosted next on Tangled Up in Blue Guy. However, TUIBG needs YOUR SUBMISIONS!!!! Send him your anthropological bloggery! Here NOW!!!
Obama will Pick Biden as VP on Saturday.
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 Or so says everybody who’s anybody.
What I had for dinner tonight
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 You will notice that my blogging frequency is reduced a bit today. Actually, it has been reduced since Sunday. This is because I’m shifting a certain amount of my writing effort to a project that is not the blog, and in the long run is actually more important (or at least, that is surely what…
The truth about bigfoot
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 They … the guys … sold the freezer, with bigfoot inside of it, to some chumps who claim to be “bigfoot scientists”, and have taken off, went on the lam, disappeared. According to Countdown (Live, happening now) and it’s on CNN (click the picture). It turns out on further inspection that it was just that…
Nellie McKay: “Mother of Pearl” and “If I Had You”
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 What ever happened to the Large Hadron Collider?
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 It was supposed to start up in June, at which time the Earth would explicitly NOT be sucked into a tiny black hole. Or at least not quickly. Or at least not a black hole any different than the thousands that are already forming in our upper atmosphere more or less constantly. Did it start…
A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 I think he looks a little fat in this video, what do you think?
Carnivalia!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 Carnival of the Green Carnival of the Mobilists #137 Carnival of Genealogy, 54th Edition In honor of this blog’s Olympic Boycott: a buddhist carnival – 9th edition, part 1 All Things Eco Blog Carnival Volume Thirteen The Military History Carnival New and Exciting in PLoS Biology Encephalon 52: Q&A
President of Zambia has Died
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 ambia’s leader Levy Mwanawasa, 59, has died in a Paris hospital after suffering a stroke in June. Vice-President Rupiah Banda, who is expected to take over as acting leader, made the announcement on state TV. President Mwanawasa suffered a stroke at an African Union summit in Egypt and was then flown to France, where he…
Majority Rules: God can save you when doctors fail.
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 And, therefore, health care decisions should take this into account. According to 57 percent of Americans. An eye-opening survey reveals widespread belief that divine intervention can revive dying patients. And, researchers said, doctors “need to be prepared to deal with families who are waiting for a miracle.” More than half of randomly surveyed adults —…
Poll Crashing Time
Posted by Greg Laden on August 19, 2008 This is an important one. Pharyngula is big, but it is not as big as CNN, so it is quite possible that it won’t make a dent. All 12 of us must join in to have our opinions heard on this question: Do you believe God’s intervention could save a family member even if doctors…
Kipunji Monkey
Posted by Greg Laden on August 18, 2008 The future for a large primate in a tiny patch of African forest looks bleak. Just three years after it was discovered, Tanzania’s kipunji monkey is threatened with extinction … researchers conducted more than 2,800 hours of fieldwork in the Southern Highlands and Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania, where the kipunji was discovered. The team tallied…
Freeman Dyson: Life in the outer solar system
Posted by Greg Laden on August 18, 2008 Close Encounter of the Bear Kind
Posted by Greg Laden on August 18, 2008 A landlocked polar bear, too close for comfort, forced a crew of five Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) scientists to evacuate a remote camp in northern Alaska. The scientists were studying the impacts of climate change on Arctic shorelines. Typically at this time of year, polar bears spend their days hunting seals on sea ice, but…
“I know Al Franken is a Patriot”
Posted by Greg Laden on August 18, 2008 
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