Archives for August 25, 2009
The Falsehoods Come Home to Roost: Dirty Foreign Germs In America
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2009 Parasitic infections and other diseases usually associated with the developing world are cropping up with alarming frequency among U.S. poor, especially in states along the U.S.-Mexico border, the rural South and in Appalachia, according to researchers. Government and private researchers are just beginning to assess the toll of the infections, which are a significant cause…
How To Enable Adobe’s Flash Player In Google Chrome
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2009 In Ubuntu. Here.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce takes AGW Denialism Stance
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2009 The nation’s largest business group is asking U.S. EPA to hold a public debate on climate change science — or face litigation — as the agency prepares to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. … “They don’t have the science to support the endangerment finding,” Bill Kovacs, the chamber’s vice president for…
The Modes of Natural Selection
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2009 There many ways of dividing up and categorizing Natural Selection. For example, there are the trichotomies of Natural Selection, Sexual Selection and Artificial Selection, and Modes of Selection (Stabilizing, Directional, and Disruptive) trichotomy. We sense that these are good because they are “threes” and “three” is a magic number. Here, I’m focusing on the Mode…
The Three Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Natural Selection
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2009 Natural Selection is the key creative force in evolution. Natural selection, together with specific histories of populations (species) and adaptations, is responsible for the design of organisms. Most people have some idea of what Natural Selection is. However, it is easy to make conceptual errors when thinking about this important force of nature. One way…
Google Chrome 64 Bit for Linux
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2009 A 64-bit version of the Google Chrome browser is now ready, but Windows users will still have some time to wait for their version. In a mailing list posting this week, Chrome developer Dean McNamee wrote that the Google v8 JavaScript team have working on a 64-bit port. There are now full instructions on the…
Bachmann makes stuff up
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2009 Listen to the long list of Town Hall meetings Bachmann claims to have had or to have planned. So far, she’s only had meetings more restrictive than those Bush has had. The one time she had a public meeting with actual public that I know of was the famous bathroom incident, but that’s another story……
When the eagles are disturbed …
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2009 When it comes to observing nature, it pays to pay attention, and it pays to stay in one place for a while. Coming to “The Lake” many spring, summer, and fall weekends (and now and then in the winter) and paying attention to the wildlife and other aspects of the natural environment allows me to…
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