Archives for September 21, 2009
Time to start watching Mt. Rainier?
Posted by Greg Laden on September 21, 2009 Erik Klemetti notes that Mt. Rainier has been experiencing increased seismic activity as of late. (details) Overall activity level is up since the last month and the little earth quakes are a little bigger. No particular explanations are forthcoming yet. Current seismic data are here.
High School is … Interesting.
Posted by Greg Laden on September 21, 2009 Imagine finding the following quote on the wall of your teenage child’s social studies classroom: “No, I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.” – George H.W. Bush What would you do?
Dark Dark Dark
Posted by Greg Laden on September 21, 2009 Featuring one of our local caribou bou bou. More about Dark Dark Dark at a later time.
Oh, and one more facebook thing to join!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on September 21, 2009 I just found out that Scienceblogs has a facebook page. You should join it!
The Secular Pinky Swear (Pass it on)
Posted by Greg Laden on September 21, 2009 Tired of seeing the Religious Right claim the moral high ground through abstinence pledges that don’t work? As a humanist, you know that ancient creeds are no basis for morality, and that attempts to control teens through fear, intimidation, and outdated doctrines and institutions are futile. Statistics show that teens who take abstinence pledges (such…
Facebook groups you should consider joining
Posted by Greg Laden on September 21, 2009 NCSE: National Center for Science Education STOP RACISM! STOP RACISM Minnesota The Friends of Charles Darwin Minnesota Atheists The Beagle Project
Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) I
Posted by Greg Laden on September 21, 2009 This is yet another in a series of posts on falsehoods. To refresh your memory, a falsehood is a belief held by a number of people that is in some way incorrect. That incorrectness may be blatant, it may be subtle, it may be conditional, it may be simple, it may be complex. But, the…
How many more people have the Novel H1N1 flu than we ‘see’ with the flu?
Posted by Greg Laden on September 21, 2009 Good question. A recent paper in PLoS ONE looks at H1N1 in foreign travelers in order to estimate the incidence of this virus in Mexico.
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