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March 31, 2009
Dean's Diner For some reason, Susan didn't seem to like me very much. I have no clue as to why not. I was as agreeable as a kid as I am now as an adult. Whenever we would go into her restaurant, she would smile...
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The authorities of the Russian town of Kemerovo arranged a special expedition to find the yeti habitat which was discovered by Google maps. Recently there have been more than 20 claims from the local hunters who said they had seen strange creatures in the forests....
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Category: Blogospherics
Pope to recieve potentially 5 millions condoms in the mail. Stingless Bees Mummify Enemies Finnish software developer Jerry Jalava uses Linux on a USB stick, although in a rather unusual way: the USB is part of his prosthetic finger. Have CO2 levels at Hawaii's Mauna...
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Category: Technology
If you try to sudo your way through a command with pipes and/or redirects, part of the sequence of commands may be producing sudo-read/writeable streams of data or data objects, which the other parts of the sequence can't use because they were spawned by your...
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Category: Aves (birds)
Scientists have reported a strange twist in the tale of Europe's harbinger of spring the Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus. In a dramatic discovery, returning cuckoos have been heard and filmed calling with a highly distinctive variation of the normal call. The new call is...
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Category: Politics
The judicial panel that has been off somewhere deciding what to do about the Coleman election challenge has ordered 400 additional ballots opened and counted on April 7th. If (and we do not know this for a fact) these are THE remaining ballots to count,...
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Category: Technology
If you don't get the title, skip this post. Discussion below the fold....
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Are there any concerned liberal-minded faculty or students at St. Cloud State in MN who can help us out with something? Email me. kthxbye...
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Category: Politics
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Note the continued threats of violence by the Right Wing. We continue to await word from the court....
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March 30, 2009
Category: Health
...discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge -- passing from animals to humans ...
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"Texas has sent a clear message that evolution should be taught as a scientific theory open to critical scrutiny, not as a sacred dogma that can't be questioned," said Dr. John West, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, a Seattle think tank that argues...
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Polycarbonate water bottles have received plenty of bad press for releasing potentially toxic compounds into unsuspecting drinkers, but there may be another culprit: everyday plastic packaging. A German study of commercially-available bottled water found contamination by chemicals that mimic natural sex hormones. When the researchers...
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Category: Religion
Texas school board stuffs it's boot up your arse.
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Category: Religion
Natalie send me this:...
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Six bonobos, a species of chimpanzee, have died from a flu epidemic in a month at the Lola Ya Bonobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ten more have contracted the flu. These are apes in a rehab center, and apparently the flu (we'll...
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A few weeks ago I heard a story [about a teacher in Oklahoma] ... Her students did so well, they won a science competition and were asked to fly somewhere to accept the prize. For many of those students, this would be their first trip...
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The caption of this photograph at The Guardian says only, "Nowruz celebrations in Afghanistan." Nowruz is the name of the Iranian New Year, which is celebrated in a number of countries by people of several faiths. The baskets of dried fruits eaten during the holiday...
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Category: Education
Dawkins, for example, argues as a scientist that religion is comparable to a mental virus or "meme" that can be explained through evolution, that religious believers are delusional, and that in contrast, atheists are representative of a healthy, independent, and pro-science mind. In making these...
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March 29, 2009
Analiese's Reading about complications along the Red River, the Coleman-Franken recount, Immigrants, the FBI, wind turbines in the Twin Cities and more. Christopher Taylor asks: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Lesbians? A homeschooled kid goes off to 6th grade. Ginny Hughes on Peek-a-boo...
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This was mysteriously sent to me. I think maybe by god....
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Amazing photographs at Boston.com of the ongoing flooding crisis on the Red River....
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Category: Gym
Check it out. I saw you working out on that new machine," the personal trainer, folding towels at the counter by the locker room, was saying to some guy he knew. You see more trainers folding towels these days, what with the economy and all....
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OBJECTIVE: To establish if the 'myth' about whether the size of a man's penis can be estimated from his shoe size has any basis, in fact. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Two urologists measured the stretched penile length of 104 men in a prospective study and related...
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Marjorie Grene has died at the age if 98. She was a philosopher who addressed evolutionary biology. A philosopher of biology who once spent time as a farmer's wife writing scholarly works before doing chores, Dr. Grene was one of the first philosophers to raise...
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Hanna Rosin paints breast feeding, in a recent item in The Atlantic, as a social requirement for the privileged, a "no-exceptions requirement" and a badge of being a good mother. She also examines the possibility that breast-feeding is " ... an instrument of misery that...
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A new study warns that cold-blooded land animals like lizards and insects in the tropics may wither as the world warms. "Cold-blooded" is the layman's term for ectotherms--animals whose body temperature is contingent on the surrounding environment, rather than internally regulated like that of warm-blooded...
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Or did we....
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Category: Caption Needed
More kapshuns pleez...
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A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded. In a report to be issued this weekend, the researchers said that the...
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March 28, 2009
Category: Technology
It is a problem that the manufactures of electronics cynically produce a different power supply for every single device, even though this is not necessary and is highly wasteful of resources.
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Category: Carnivals
Well, I suppose we could go get guns and knives and bludgeons and just go KILL HER. That certainly would be a kind of ironic justice. But since we are all peace loving non violent types, I suppose we are going to have to make...
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Category: Technology
in Linux...
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more...
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Category: Blogospherics
The Ethical Palaeontologist eats dinosaurs for dinner. Mmmm mmm good. But was it ethical? The Island of Doubt asks: Are we 'safe' with 2 degrees of warming? Almost Diamonds asks: What is Michele Bachmann really up to? Perhaps she is The Bullheaded Bullhorn. Pure Pedantry...
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Here's the info on Ubunto 9.04, Jaunty Jackelope, Beta. Key new stuff: Newer versions of Gnome, X.Org, and the LInux Kernel Ext 4 file system Cloud computing Turn-key mail servers Other stuff...
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Category: Carnivals
A unique topsy turvy odd Skeptics Circle, the 108th. At Podblack Cat...
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Category: Carnivals
The March 29, 2009 edition of Everything Worth Reading Blog Carnival on March 28 aka EWR: Fourteen Times The Goodness is HERE....
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March 27, 2009
Category: Evolution
Minnesota Atheists' "Atheists Talk" radio show. Sunday, March 29, 2009, 9-10 a.m. Central Time "Remarkable Creatures: Our Guest Sean B. Carroll." Have you heard of the new science of Evo Devo? If so, then you've probably read Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Dr. Sean B....
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Category: Climate
Sorry for the somewhat scatter-shot posting on the Red River flooding on the North Dakota/Minnesota border, but as we speak I'm sort of figuring this out. Here's the basic low down. There are two major settlements threatened by flooding: Grand Forks and Fargo/Moorehead. The former...
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If you are interested, you can follow the Red River flooding on Twitter by following ... well, the Red River, which apparently twitters it's flood height. Which at present is 40.77 feet, which is up one tenth of a foot from one hour ago and...
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The Red River, which forms the border between North Dakota and Minnesota, has broken the 112 year old flood record within the last several hours. At least one impromptu sandbag levee has broken, but was repaired. The river continues to rise. The fact that temperatures...
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Category: Carnivals
The Diversity in Science Carnival: Women Achievers in STEM - Past and Present, compiled by Zuska at Thus Spake Zuska, is one of the better put together carnivals I've seen in a long time. Zuska has raised the bar. The posts to which it points...
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Category: Creationism
There is a poll on this page that you may be interested in participating in. Hint hint. Right now the creationists are winning....
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My friend and former student has been sentenced for his role in the Earth Liberation Front. Please don't let this happen to you.
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March 26, 2009
Good bye, winter Hat Tip Wired Science...
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Most of Prince William Sound's animal populations will someday recover from the lingering effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. One, however, will not: a community of killer whales unlike any other in the world. "It's a separate population. Their genetics, their acoustics, are different...
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In fact, it IS watching corn grow! Hat Tip Wired Science...
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Category: GLBTA
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