Archives for September 2, 2008
The High Water Mark of the Bush Presidency
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 Ory Okolloh: The making of an African activist
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 Sarah Palin’s Pastor Problem
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 Thank you Ana for turning me on to this. Also see this.
Another Day in the Life of The Twin Cities
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 Have you ever visited a culture entirety different than your own (or even moderately different, like you’re from New York and you visit Kentucky, or you’re from Belgium and you visit Italy)? You will see things …. things people do differently, right away. Then you leave and you figure these things are what ‘they’ ……
Google Chrome Not Ready for Real OS Deployment
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 How can Google be taken seriously if a) it runs it’s own business on LAMP servers using mainly Python; b) develops a multi-threaded browser with a memory-conservative development API; c) call it all open source and d) make it available only on Windows? Since Google Chrome is probably very good competition for the remaining users…
Sugata Mitra: Can kids teach themselves?
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 Sarah Palin
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 GOP’s Secret Internal Talking Points For Delegates About Palin Family are HERE. So if you are with the GOP and don’t have these, better have a look. Otherwise, STAY AWAY THIS IS SECRET. Futures Trading in Palin’s Likely withdraw from the VEEP sweepstakes have started, details here. But don’t worry, it’s OK. She’s ready to…
Blogospherics – Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 I have been collecting a number of very interesting links, all sent by readers, and would now like to lay them on you. There is quite a diversity of material here, but you will enjoy all of it.
Republican Desires: Yes We Klan!
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 “It is true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could abort every black baby in this country…” Republican Secretary of Education William Bennet, 1985 to 1988 Hat tip: Javier,who tells me that this video is “from the same guy who did the Expelled/astrology parody.”
In the Long Run, Exertion Regulation Wins the Day for Marathon Runners
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 How do athletes in Olympic level endurance competition do it?
Think Big
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 Check this out. Think Big is a fundraising effort that is worthy of a look. Let me know what you think.
Welcome Gene Blogger Daniel MacArthur. The sBorg Absorbs You
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 Daniel MacArthur has been writing a genetics blog called Genetic Future for some time now. He hosted his own blog up until today. But now, The sBorg has absorbed him. He is now here. Sorry, Dan.
Your mamma!
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2008 Of course, I agree with Barack Obama as well as my colleagues on scienceblogs that people’s families should be off limits in campaigns. Thus, discussion of Sarah Palin’s unwed young daughter getting knocked up out of wedlock is totally irrelevant. As PZ puts it, we should instead focus on Sarah Palin’s utter disregard for individual…
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