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June 30, 2009
The best of last June The first dinosaur bones (that we know of) to have been discovered in British Columbia, Canada, are now being reported. These are bones found in 1971, eventually making their way to the Royal British Columbia Museum, and now being reported...
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Category: Al Franken
I just got an email from my close personal friend, Al Franken. Here's part of it (I cut out the personal smushy stuff): I've said it before, and I want to say it again: THANK YOU. We just received word that the Minnesota State Supreme...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:03 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health
Acetaminophen dose recommendations will be lowered significantly by the FDA, and some products will be pulled off the market, because of concerns over liver damage. If you look up "Tylenol" on Wikipedia as I write this, you see the following: Indeed. From MSNBC: Despite years...
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Hat Tip It's Alive...
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Category: Technology
Powerup: 3G by a mile, Palm Pre pwnd Browsing: Palm Pre wins, 3Gs slowest Real World Test: 3Gs broke, Palm Pre wins....
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:06 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Seconds ago, Norm Coleman announced that he concedes the election to Al Franken. He just called Al a minute ago, and stepped out side his home to thank everyone and make the announcement. It is over....
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:00 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: recount
Court rules in Franken's favor. Pawlenty may delay seating Franken. Coleman not seen as likely to give up.
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Category: recount
After nearly eight months, Al Franken has won the election to the United States Senate. There are indications that Pawlenty will sign the election certificate. I'll update shortly as soon as I have more information. UPDATE HERE UPDATE UPDATE: COLEMAN CONCEDES...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:07 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science steps in and looks at the processes of nature and shows us how to tease apart the secrets of their workings, slowly and carefully and with missteps along the way. The missteps are readily acknowledged and re-examined. The successes are retested to make sure...
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Category: Carnivals
Some interesting things for you to red between now and my next post, which will be on lions. Is there a tamiflu resistant strain of the swine flu? Effect Measure discussed this. Bora and PZ are at a conference and they're blogging it. Here and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cat
Although the paper addresses Tanzanian lions, this is a photograph of a Namibian lion Starting some years ago, we began to hear about revisions of the standard models of lion behavioral biology coming out of Craig Packer's research in the Serengeti. One of the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:46 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nature has a special ... special thingie ... on science journalism. It appears to be more or less open access so even you, a virtual nobody from the perspective of the pirate publishing companies, can actually see it. There are commentaries and articles on blogs...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:56 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Michele Bachmann
And I'm still sayin' it, and I'm going to continue to deny I'm sayin' it, and I'm going to keep sayin' it, and Joe the Plumber, the liberals, I was trapped, they gotta do their job and vet the liberal views in congress, and that's...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:06 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 29, 2009
The best of last June Note: Since writing this post a year ago, at the time of Scott's talk, I learned something interesting that I think it is OK to share with you. Prior to the talk, Scott has received an injury, which was causing...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:05 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
Life is short. Be more keyboardy.
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:04 PM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Events
Intermedia Arts Presents B-GIRL BE :: A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN HIP-HOP :: Fourth International Multimedia Festival Summer Camps -- August 11 - 14, 2009 Mama Said Knock U Out! Exhibition -- August 27 through October 23, 2009 Dance Performances -- September 17 -...
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Eric Michael Johnson has a Bachelors degree in Anthropology and a Masters in Evolutionary Anthropology. He pursued his PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University before joining the University of British Columbia to complete a doctorate in the History and Philosophy of Science. And he...
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Category: Books
The kid looking for some summer reading?
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Following the excellent round of rocket photography by Steve Jurvetson, we now come down to earth with minerals photographed by B. Jefferson Bolender....
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Category: GLBTA
If you don't know what the Sontewall Uprising is, and you are interested in Gay Rights, then click here and be edumicated....
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Category: Race and Racism
A racist arrested by chance at a railway station was "on the cusp" of waging a terror campaign using tennis balls and weedkiller, a jury has heard. Neil Lewington, 43, had a bomb factory at his parents' home in Reading, Berks, and wanted to target...
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Category: Health
Despite rumors to the contrary, the novel swine flu is roughly as deadly as the regular flu. I'm still seeing people, even experts, indicate that it is relatively mild. It is not. It is typical.
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Skepchickcon is a Track at Convergence 2009. Convergence 2009 is one of those science fiction conventions where everyone dresses up as Klingons and such. I've never been to one but I've sure seen plenty of them on TV and in the movies. Skepchickcon is a...
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Category: Republicans
Time Pawlenty has become famous for his ability to be extraordinarily vague. Now we are seeing this in relation to the expected Minnesota State Supreme Court decision on the Franken-Coleman Senate election contest. For the most part, Pawlenty has signaled that he will only sign...
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I have no comment on this. Gotta go ... helicopter coming....
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Bing, son of blogger and politico Mike Haubrich, has just arrived in Japan where he will spend several months assisting in a linguistic research project in the Greater Tokyo Metro area. And hopefully getting around the country a bit to see some cool stuff. He's...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:56 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
UPDATE: grrrrrrrrrr..... The original story, now retracted, is below the fold. Somebody is dicking around on the internet. It is possible that the Daily Express article is a "hoax" or a "fiction" ... at least, this is what some are claiming. See the updates here...
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Category: Evolution
Huxley invented the term "agnostic" and described himself as one. He also had amazing sideburns.
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:01 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2009
Category: Technology
DOS stands for Disk Operating System. In the old days it was how you ran your PC. You booted up the computer and you had a prompt much like today's Linux command line in appearance. If you typed "wp" at the command line, a text-based...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:28 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Missionaries
As you know, there has been quite a bit of discussion about missionaries in the Congo on this blog. This is the central post pointing to everything else, and at Minnesota Atheists you'll find a link to today's radio show on the topic. It turns...
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Poor people in the United States are subject to a burden of diseases caused by a group of chronic and debilitating parasitic, bacterial, and congenital infections...
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Category: Books
Children's book review
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Category: GLBTA
The Minneapolis Gay Pride Fest is the third largest GLBTQFA festival in the country. Of which we are very proud. Which is why we call it the pride festival. Well, yesterday, three people form Hayward Wisconsin, which seems to be in a region that is...
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Category: Missionaries
"So, since Radiocarbon dating has been proved to not work, how do we really know that the earth is billions of years old?"
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:48 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Prisoners, nuns, do the wave for Jacko: I concur with BGF's opinion on this. Except I've got to add: When the nuns came out I kind of freaked. Also, as I've mentioned before, I totally missed the "we ae the world we are the Coke...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:24 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospherics
Happy Third Blogoversary Janie!...
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June 27, 2009
Certain aspects of the avian phylogeny were confirmed by the present study, but the reason everyone is going gaga over this work is the set of unexpected findings. Some of these have to do with wacky divergences.
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Let us not let the death of Ed McMahon and some other stars overshadow the anniversary of the death of one of the greats. In memoriam, let's talk bullshit:
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:36 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The long running Minnesota Atheist Talk Radio air's its very last show tomorrow morning at 9:00 Central Time. Details of how to listen to the show, which will also be a podcast, are here. This week's show will feature yours truly, and I'll be interviewed...
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cats: Dogs: Bonus cat:...
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Category: lost congo memoir
And so Grinker read the text, and a few sentences in it became clear that this was one of those bible passages that had a lot to say about the Jews. The Jews were bad, the Jews could not be trusted, the Jews needed to convert, and so on and so forth.
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Category: Anthropology
Advice for Jodi and Jason, which they should studiously ignore: One way to make a secular wedding work.
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Category: Books
Looking for some summer reading?
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:07 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
We left it around here somewhere. Maybe here?...
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June 26, 2009
Category: OpenAccess
Shhhh.... secret document leaks from top secret PLoS ONE files ....
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Category: Religion
Diane Benscoter spent five years as a "Moonie." She shares an insider's perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to think about today's most troubling conflicts and extremist movements....
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There are two ways to go to Antarctica. One is like my friend Elle, who is at this very moment in an underground bunker at the south pole with a broken limb and inadequate medial attention, where she is working on a NASA scientific expedition...
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The coroner's preliminary report has come out, and it is vague. Rather than reporting, for instance, a simple heart attack/stroke, the coroner indicates that there is no obvious cause (some physical, visible thing) of such a thing, and that actual 'cause of death' will be...
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There is no way Ed McMahon's death will count. Goldblum is toast.
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Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbors perhaps the most surprising talents of all....
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Highly Allochthonous 11.05.2009
Eruptions 11.05.2009
Not Exactly Rocket Science 11.05.2009
Corpus Callosum 11.05.2009
Starts With a Bang 11.04.2009
