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October 31, 2009
There appears to be a new blog at Science Blogs, and it is APPLIED STATISTICS!!!!! That's the name of the blog, and that's what it is about, and the blogger is Andrew Gelman. Welcome Andrew. We needed a stats blog, and it is very nice...
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As promised, the footnotes for A True Ghost Story....
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The McGregor Museum is a complex building with several wings surrounding an inner court yard, a multi-layered roof, balconies everywhere, and numerous trees in the court yard close in to the building. So, a cat can spend the heat of the day in the...
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Finally, without any further interruption ......
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On July 20, Kevin Lily and two friends (Danielle Katz and Brian Coggan) left Bemidji, Minnesota to travel the length of the Mississippi River. They are raising money for local, national and international charities working to alleviate the global water crisis.... Details here...
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Category: Religion
"The danger of Halloween is not in the scary things we see but in the secret, wicked, cruel activities that go on behind the scenes. These activities include: Sex with demons Orgies between animals and humans Animal and human sacrifices Sacrificing babies to shed innocent...
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Category: The Corporation
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Since we are talking about geology, I do not want to give up the opportunity to bring up one of the coolest stories of geology ever, given the present day discussion of science and religion. You will be asking for a source for this story....
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Category: Books
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People is the book that the recently published article in Seed Magazine, which was in turn recently banned in an Illinois school is mainly about. Here is the Publishers Weekly overview of the book:...
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Dan Delong teaches English at Southwester High School in Piasa, Illinois. He has been suspended for assigning an article originally published in Seed Magazine called "The Gay Animal Kingdom." If you are a teacher you know what to do.. download that article and assign it...
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One of the main reasons we were staying in Kimberley at all was to assist the museum staff with a particular, and rather singular, survey and excavation. The location and circumstances of this field project were quite remarkable....
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Please read this post at Real Climate and pass it on.
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I spent about 45 minutes yesterday in the local HMO clinic. They had turned the main waiting room into a Pandemic Novel A/H1N1 Swine (nee Mexican) Influenza quarantine area, and I could feel the flu viruses poking at my skin looking for a way in...
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I wrote earlier about the graves that were dug daily to receive the dead. In truth, the details of this procedure are still being worked out by archaeologists at the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, but when we were there on this particular trip, part of...
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Category: Republicans
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October 30, 2009
Well, we were living with this ghost who would walk up and down the hall in the middle of the night, invisibly leaving behind only the sound of its footsteps. But before I tell you how this all came out, I want to tell you...
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Category: The Corporation
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So there we were in the Haunted Guest Quarters of the Old Infirmary, and I had already heard the ghost once. In the morning, my colleague and BFF Lynne who was staying with us for a couple of days noted that she had heard the...
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Shulinab Nursery School is located in a small village of 500 people. The school can't get enough water from rainwater, so they need to set up a system that will let them get water pumped from a nearby windmill. The community will build and maintain...
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Category: Charles Darwin
Skepchick Rebecca writes about the Low Anthem's song "Oh my god, Charlie Darwin with comes along with a video: Rebecca has the lyrics and more information, like who this band is and stuff....
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How did he know it was the black kids? Because the people who robbed his car like hip-hop. How did he know that? Because they didn't take his rock cds. Oh, did they take his hip hop cd's? Well no, he doesn't have hip hop cds.
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You might not want to read this story while you are alone or while sitting in the dark.
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Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
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October 29, 2009
Hat Tip: Digital Rabbit...
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Category: Technology
I've stopped paying attention to John Stewart and that other guy what's his name at Comedy Central because over the last month or so every single video form that source I've looked at produces this error:...
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Hat Tip: Bora...
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Category: The Corporation
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Broadly speaking there are two kinds of federally regulated sources for dogs and cats used in medical research, training, an testing, in the US. They are labeled, unambiguously, A and B. A-class sources are breeders that produce animals for use in research. B-class sources, also...
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Hat tip: Digital Rabbit...
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Have a look at this veto memorandum written by Arnold Schwarzenegger to kill a bill authored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco. Ammiano is famous for shouting "Kiss my ass" to Arnold at some public event or another. Tell me, is there a hidden message...
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Lest we forget: The strange part is the applause. Hat tip aratina...
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Last night, during Teh Game, we were told that Viking Orlando Thomas had died, succumbing to his battle with Lou Gehrig's disease. This is not true....
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Category: Cosmos
... it is possible to estimate the age of the universe more accurately than you can estimate the age of a horse or a person using only physical evidence. But it is still an estimate, not as well confirmed as if you had a birth certificate ...
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October 28, 2009
The DSCC wants to give you a free bumper sticker thingie that makes fun of republicans. Click here....
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Category: Blogospherics
This is really interesting: What is squalene? Next time you are talking to an antivaxer, just say "We have the squalene. We win. Shut. up." White Coat Underground suggests that ... The anti-vaccination movement is morally bankrupt. It's always a good idea to Fight the...
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I know you all love these:...
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He gets that question a lot from women. He says. Wow, that was cool....
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After the state failed to issue MSU Extension and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, or MAES, their monthly payment, officials fear funding for these programs could be eliminated altogether. The programs primarily are supported by state funding and were appropriated $64 million in the...
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Or maybe it was just a strange cloud formation......
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Category: The Corporation
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WASHINGTON--Claiming that the president was preying on the public's fear of contracting a fatal disease last week when he declared the H1N1 virus a national emergency, Republican leaders announced Wednesday that they were officially endorsing the swine flu. "Thousands of Americans--hardworking ordinary Americans like you...
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Category: Republicans
I was originally just going to point to this but it is so intense that I felt I just needed to have it on my site. This is the life blood of the blogger:...
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Watergeeks is a business that sells water bottles, water filters, and other products aimed at helping alleviate the global water crisis. Their main products are personal water bottles. Their mission is to eliminate the waste of bottles used for bottled water. Many people think that...
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Category: Politics
Reporters and bloggers rightfully enjoy feeding off of Michel Bachmann's frequent outrageous remarks, but few have made note of the real problem she poses for the people living in her district....
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This is good, but I think doing the same thing with a "Penny holder" could have produced some real profit, like those gravity space-time simulators at many science museums....
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I'm working on my list of candidates to force into retirement over the next few years. Read More...
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It is a strange night. It is always strange when the water softener is recycling, because it makes all sorts of strange noises, and I usually don't hear them because I'm in bed sleeping....
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October 27, 2009
Category: The Corporation
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This is really funny. And sad. As usual for L.B. hat tip: Digital Rabbit...
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