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Recent Posts
- The First Openly Gay MLB Owner
- Islamic Creationism in the News
- The Mark of the Devil strikes again.
- Schools emerge as new tactic in gay marriage votes
- The next document I put together will be done with LyX
- Congressperson Steve Israel demands an apology from Michele Bachmann to for tacitly condoning Holocaust imagery
- Glen Beck's latest tirade. Performed by John Stewart
- I am a palaeontologist ... the music video
- When computers see what you see...
- Maddow on news confusion
January 31, 2009
Bambi Googled!!!!
Category: Technology
The Google Map Van, apparently, travels around the world, wherever there are streets, taking pictures of those self same streets to be on Google Map Street View. A student of mine recently contacted me for ideas about what to do about the fact that the...
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Blogospherics
Category: Blogospherics
It's a good idea to have a Fire Drill now and then. Do you know where the nearest fire extinguisher is? Right now? Go find it. Don't forget: Atheists Talk--Bora Zivkovic, Sunday Morning!!!!! Hey, Atheists: It's all your Dad's fault! Here....
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Science News Tidbits
Category: Science News
Paleontologist reflects on Darwinian connections (PhysOrg.com) -- As the former director and chief executive of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in England, Sir Peter Crane often walked in the footsteps of Charles Darwin. Peanuts tainted with metal fragments (AP) -- The government acknowledged Friday...
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Bell Museum Events
Category: Education
from The Bell ... This February the Bell Museum of Natural History will be celebrating the opening of the internationally acclaimed exhibit LIFE: A Journey Through Time; Photograpy by Frans Lanting. We hope you will join us on the evening of February 12th for a...
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Dumb Fugitives
And this week's Darwin Award Honorable Mention goes to these two prison escapees in New Zealand: hat Tip: Geekology...
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Happy Birthday Grrrrrrrl Scientist!
Here....
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The Great Shoe: The Newest Pilgrimage Site?
A huge sculpture of the footwear hurled at President Bush in December during a trip to Iraq has been unveiled in a ceremony at the Tikrit Orphanage complex. Assisted by children at the home, sculptor Laith al-Amiri erected a brown replica of one of the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:37 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Did you notice that the Entire Internet went bad this fine morning?
Category: Technology
But it got better. Google has the capacity to place a sentence just underneath the title of a web site on a Google Search that says "This site may harm your computer." Apparently, over the last several hours, Google started labeling every site on the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:22 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Monaco Declaration on Global Climate Change
The Monaco Declaration (PDF) warns of the dangers to our oceans if we don't terminate the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere. The oceans are becoming increasingly acidic thanks the to rise in the levels of CO2 brought about by the industrial age. This is...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:18 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Friday Carnivalia
Category: Carnivals
Carnival of Evolution #8 is presented here, by Irradiatus Four Stone Hearth: "A New Hope" Edition is HERE. Not a carnival but an important, related post: Why Backlinks Matter, at Nature Blog Network. Friday Ark at The Modulator And while we are on the subject...
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January 30, 2009
Some people have too much time on their hands. And water. Too much water.
Hat Tip Geekology...
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Sorry, the whole world actually is watching ...
Category: Politics
Judge: Prop 8 donor names must be public
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Obama must get rid of this "faith based" crap
But he's not. President Barack Obama has chosen Joshua DuBois to lead his White House-based effort to steer federal social service dollars to religious charities and get them more involved in government anti-poverty efforts. DuBois, a political strategist who was religious affairs director in the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:02 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Canadian Faith Based Doctor Sucks
Andrea Markowski said she and her partner Ginette were stunned when the Winnipeg doctor told them during a "meet-and-greet" appointment she was uncomfortable accepting them as patients and had never treated "people like you" before. The doctor said she only treated "husbands and wives," said...
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Be Inspired
Many more, some funnier, here....
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Vaccines and Autism: A Tale of Shifting Hypotheses
Category: Health
According to one research team (which includes a vaccine patent holder), a meta study of studies examining the vaccine - autism link shows no link and no real prospect of a link.
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:57 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Tom Steele Elected RNC Chair
Category: Race and Racism
The black RNC chair has just been elected, replacing a more typical white supremacist guy who was the previous chair. I have no analysis to offer at this time....
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Items of Interest
Category: Blogospherics
Virginia Gay Marriage Ban Repeal Fails. Details. Obama to Restore Family Planning Aid? Details Ocean dead zones made worse by global warming. Details....
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NWA: No longer the Worst Airline. Because it is gone.
Good Bye Northwest Airlines. I never liked you and I won't miss you. You do not deserve to exist after what you did to me when my father died. And I speak for thousands of others who suffered your crap over the years. Hat Tip...
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January 29, 2009
Ricky Gervais Becomes An Atheist
Category: Atheism
And Leonard Plinth Garnell Presents .... (Only kidding. Skip the first 43 seconds if you can....) Hat Tip Sandwalk....
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:23 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Late Show - Final Tribute
Hat Tip: Eme Trece...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:23 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Campaign Promise Redux
Category: Politics
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January 28, 2009
The Mars Rover is Sooooo Stoned!!!!!
Category: Cosmos
Does Spirit have a Boyfriend? Or may be a little drug habit? NASA is perplexed: PASADENA, Calif. - The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit plans diagnostic tests this week after Spirit did not report some of its weekend activities, including a request to...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:50 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Larry Craig Is Completely Heterosexual" by Roy Zimmerman
Hat Tip Lou...
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Blogospherics: Recommended reads
Category: Blogospherics
The African Armyworm is on the march, wiping out crops in Liberia. Details here. Reading graphs: How we do it, and what it tells us about making better ones. Here. Marking classes interactive: better learning or just more fun? Here. The Continuum Hypothesis Solved: All...
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"Oath of Office" by Roy Zimmerman
Category: Politics
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I do not advocate this cookbook.
Category: Cell Biology
But it might be worth thumbing through it just for fun ... You must be over 18 to read the rest of tis blog post. ------------------------- the fold -----------------------------...
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The Rightful Place of Science
The rightful place of science is moving, never staying in one place, ever dancing and watching, on the always shifting sociopolitical landscape. A team of white coated eggheads can solve any problem with enough science. We need to get rid of the Jews, and we...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:54 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Atheist Talk Radio
Category: Atheism
Science is moving onto the internet. Collection of data, collaboration between researchers, communication and critique of results, teaching and learning--all are increasingly being done online. ScienceOnline, held January 16 - 18 in 2009, is a conference dedicated to discussing the intersection of science and...
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Blogger Dot Com Recent Comment Widget
Category: Blogging
blogger comment widget 4U
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January 27, 2009
A Day In the Life (Bathing with the Hippos)
Category: Congo Memoirs
... get in the water and soap up. He would stand up and grunt. ... dunk in the water to rinse. He'd open his jaw and make some noise. ... start putting on shampoo. He'd jump up and down, let out a yowell, and start running right at us. ... dunk in the water to get the shampoo off, and when coming up for air be running towards shore not even looking back, grab the clothes off the beach and keep going into the bush. That's how you bathe with a hippo.
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Check out our new Front Page
Science Blogs Dot Com has revised the way its own Front Page looks. Here. Please have a look and tell us what you think!...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:40 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2009
Post Bush FDA OKs Human Trials of Embryonic Stem Cells
The Federal Drug Administration has approved the first human trials of embryonic stem cells -- a sign of a new, liberal attitude toward stem cell research, which was hamstrung by the Bush administration. Starting this summer, the biotech firm Geron will treat a small group...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:29 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Tara Smith: New Staph Strain Found in U.S. Pigs
Category: Health
Scienceblogger Smith: MRSA ST398 in US swine, published in PLoS.
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Don't be a minion of Satan
Category: Computer Tricks
set OpenOffice default to MS formats, if you must
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:57 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Firesign Unplugged
Posted on facebook by David Roberts:...
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Franken-Coleman Senate Race Recount: Restart
Category: Politics
At 1:00 PM Central Time court procedings being in the Franken-Coleman senate race. A three judge state court will ultimately hear and rule on a lawsuit essentially filed by Coleman's team. The suit, an "election contest," alleges a number of problems with the current nearly-certified...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:49 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Example of Bad Science News Deployment: Caffeine - Leukemia Link
Category: Health
In an astonishing demonstration of the evils of Marketing in a Research University Context, the University of Leicester today announced that an upcoming research project would find a link between coffee consumption by pregnant women and leukemia to develop later in their offspring. This is...
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Altered brain activity in schizophrenia may cause exaggerated focus on self
Category: Brain and Behavior
I thought we already knew this, but here goes: Schizophrenia may blur the boundary between internal and external realities by over-activating a brain system that is involved in self-reflection, and thus causing an exaggerated focus on self, a new MIT and Harvard brain imaging study...
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Graham Lawton Sells Out Darwin, Science, and Teh Blogosphere
New Scientist Cover Controversy Continues with Coturnix. Details here....
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Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Rococo's Pocket.....
Everyone has pieces of literature or art that have influenced them the most. For me, it's this:...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:03 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 25, 2009
What happens on February 14th?
Category: Linux
take the survey
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:59 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Linux 2.6 kernel on the iPhone?
Category: OpenSource
Not a problem. Place your iPhone near the screen and click here....
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What Would an Atheist Linux Distro Look Like?
Category: Religion
Such a thing may be redundant, what with "Scientific Linux" and all. But I ask the question seriously. There is a fair amount of religious gobbledygook mixed in with Linux and IT generally, and a Distro like Godlessbuntu might be just the trick. Where is...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:34 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Tidbits
Category: Science News
Snow blankets part of Arabian Peninsula, proving Global Warming is a Myth: UAE mountain covered in rare snow A blanket of snow has covered a mountain in a part of the United Arab Emirates, a rare phenomenon for the desert Gulf country, according to local...
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The Moon Had a Spinning Liquid Core
Category: Cosmos
There are several things that can cause a magnetic signal to form in a rock (and this depends a lot on the rock). One is simply residing on a magnetic planet, like the earth. The other is being shocked by having, for instance, a meteor...
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Change in Publication Policy: Journal of Neurophysiology
Category: OpenAccess
If you are interested in OpenAccess and related issues, please attend to this item at DrugMonkey: Pre-Publication Policy at the Journal of Neurophysiology...
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