Archives for October 31, 2009
Scienceblogs Dot Com Has Stats!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on 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 to have you here. So now, a statistics joke:
A true ghost story: The Footnotes
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 As promised, the footnotes for A True Ghost Story.
A true ghost story: The Slide Show
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 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 shaded crown of a tree, and the cool of the evening…
A True Ghost Story Part 7: How I captured the Ghost of the McGregor Museum
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 Finally, without any further interruption …
Kevin, Danielle and Brian made it to New Orleans
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 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
Halloween is a counterfeit holy day dedicated to celebrating the demonic trinity of Lucifer, the Antichrist and the Spirit of Belial, whoever that is.
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 “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 blood Rape and molestation of adults, children and babies Revel…
A True Ghost Story, Part 6: But first, since we’re talking geology …
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 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. Look it up in Wikipedia, where all knowledge resides, and…
Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 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:
Teacher Suspended, Seed Magazine Banned, Teh Gay Blamed.
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 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 to all of your students as soon as possible!!!! Here…
A True Ghost Story Part 5: The Grave on the Hill
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 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.
The Real Problem with Real Global Warming being thought of as Real. Or not.
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 By now there have been many detailed dissections of everything that is wrong with the treatment of climate in Superfreakonomics , but what has been lost amidst all that extensive discussion is how really simple it would have been to get this stuff right…. Please read this post at Real Climate and pass it on.
How do we know how bad the Swine Flu is so far?
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 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 the whole time I was there.
A True Ghost Story Part 4: I see dead people. Hey, It’s my job!
Posted by Greg Laden on October 31, 2009 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 the grave yard to which I refer had been just…
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