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November 30, 2009
Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #2
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:36 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When the manuscript review goes bad
Drug monkey put up this funny video. But it is not so funny as it is like real life some times....
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:26 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Huxley and the Pacifier Problem
Category: Lactation and Breastfeeding
"Nipple confuzun will Ruinz the Babie!!!11!!
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:19 AM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Making Sausage: Thoughts on the CRU Hack
Josh Rosenau has an excellent post on the recent theft and release of (selected uncontextualized?) emails of climate scientists. See: Stolen emails, climate change, and the practice of science. I have been in the room when scientists got personal and forgot to be objective. I've...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:26 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2009
Watch the guy eat the note
Here is the video you all have been looking for of the guy eating the hold up note from his bank robbery. This video also commemorates an interesting anniversary. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dean? Rachel? Republican purity? Huh?
Category: Republicans
So, I stop paying attention for a couple of days and Rachel Maddow is now an older white-haired straight white guy??? Whatever, this is an interesting report....
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:26 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Four Cops Executed in Tacoma by Gunmen
Category: Gun Ownership
It is not clear how many gunmen were involved, but four police officers were killed in a coffee-shop ambush in Tacoma Washington....
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:44 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Today's Bible Study
Category: Religion
I agree with almost nothing substantive that he says but many people find the discussion interesting:...
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November 28, 2009
Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #3
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Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #4
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Obama to hold job performance review with every single American worker
This might take a while...
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November 27, 2009
Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #5
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Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #6
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Punk Rock Skepticism
Skeptically Speaking Tonight! We'll be talking to Nicky Garratt, guitarist in the legendary punk band, the UK Subs, who also happens to be an active skeptic. Does speaking out against psuedoscience, magical thinking and unexamined beliefs get in the way of damning the man? And,...
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When graphic artists get bored
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Build a Binary marble adding machine Amazing Folded Paper Art Yet Another Cell Size and Scale Demonstratomatic Machine...
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November 26, 2009
Huxley Laden Baby Picture
One baby picture:...
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Huxley D. Laden, 7 lbs 11 oz
And twenty and one half inches long....
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Improv Everywhere at Home Depot
225 Improv Everywhere Agents shop in slow motion at a Manhattan Home Depot....
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Freeze Grand Central
This is one of nearly 100 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past eight years in New York City. Others include the Best Game Ever, the Food Court Musical, and the famous No Pants Subway Ride, to name a few. Visit the website...
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Health Insurance Companies Need to Get Richer
Anthem Health Plans of Maine, a subsidiary of WellPoint, is suing the state because they want to increase premium rates by 18.5% on their 12,000 individual insurance policy holders, so they can guarantee themselves a 3% profit margin. This story shows how silly it would...
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November 25, 2009
Military Suicides
This is another installment of this new experimental news thingie....
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Which is more Zero-G, cats or dogs?
dog: cat: Bonus video:...
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Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #7
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"Good Morning America" to Lambart: Buzz off
Category: GLBTA
Adam Lambert, who should have won American Idol, was to appear on ABC's Good Morning America show, but they canceled because he is controversial in a gay way. ABC was ... concerned....
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:03 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
End Illegal Immigration NOW!!!!!!
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Andy The Health Insurance Spokes Jerk
Category: Film
Oh, this is good. Watch it and pass it on!!!!...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:21 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2009
Solar Plane: First Runway Test
The test saw the Solar Impulse take some slow steps down the runway using four solar-powered electric motors. The plane taxied without landing gear -- just like in a normal takeoff. Now that the runway test was successful, the Solar Impulse team will taxi to...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:15 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
UC Protests Cast Light on Higher Ed's Financial Woes
More on the CA tuition thing: What do you think about this news story? It is a product of Newsy.com, which I think is new....
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:42 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pagel on Darwin
Category: Darwin
Mark Pagel, evolutionary theorist extraordinaire, has published an Insight piece in Nature on Natural selection 150 years on. Pagel, well known for myriad projects in natural selecition theory and adaptation, and for developing with Harvey the widely used statistical phylogenetic method (and for being a...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:09 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Time for Atheists to Stop It"
I hear the cries and the calls of the religious moderate, and they are as usual correct. We have been too uppity, and I apologize on behalf of all of us. We should have known better, of course but in our exuberance at the publication...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:21 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The 150th on the blogosphere
Category: Darwin
Obviously, I'm doing it here in my own humble way, but here's a few other loci in the blogosphere (and elsewhere) you may visit if you just need more Darwin:
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:03 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chin up you YouTube Atheists
REMOVED BECAUSE THE "AMAZING ATHEIST" IS A VERY VERY BAD PERSON AND HIS STUFF IS NOT ALLOWED ON THIS BLOG ANY MORE ....
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:02 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?
Category: Charles Darwin
Perhaps we are all subject to falling into the trap of what I call the Hydraulic Theory of Everything. If you eat more you will be bigger, if you eat less you will be smaller. Emotional states are the continuously varying outcome of different levels...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:09 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For Your Darwin Reading and Listening Pleasure
Category: Darwin and the Voyage
A podcast from earlier in the year, celebrating Darwin's birthday. A few essays focusing on Darwin's Voyage on The Beagle Bon Voyage HMS Beagle The Voyage of the Beagle Darwin Crossing The Atlantic Charles Darwin and the Rain Forest Darwin Gets his Wellies Wet South...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:09 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The people who like Obama more are smarter, female, non-white, not-Southern, not 'twix poor and rich, liberal dems godless and unmarried.
Category: Barack Obama
Modally speaking of course. And those are utterly different modes so the title of this post is of course nonsense. But, we do have some interesting data. This is from the Gallup Pole of weekly job approval by demographic groups. The main thing this poll...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:09 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Reflections on the Origin of Species
Category: Agassiz
The The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin was published 150 years go as I write this. At the time, several different alternative theories of the origin and history of life were being discussed in the West. Some of these theories were theological. Theological ideas...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:50 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Visit the NSF's Evolution of Evolution Web Site
Category: Charles Darwin
Honoring the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, Evolution of Evolution: 150 Years of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" is a multi-disciplinary one-stop-shop of resources on evolution and Darwin himself that are available nowhere else--including eye-catching graphics; captivating interviews and essays by...
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Dr. Mohamed Noor discusses current evidence for evolution and modern evolution theory.
Category: Charles Darwin
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:37 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Happy Birthday The Origin of Species!!!!
Category: Charles Darwin
This is the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. I will be posting Darwin related items all day. SOURCE OF VIDEO...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:01 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 23, 2009
CERN: "Atoms ... we smashes them"
Category: Cosmos
The Large Hadron Collider has produced some data!...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:39 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #8
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:23 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Global Warming Gate Beginning to Cool Down
I recommend the following two blog posts for the latest thinking on the conspiracy to force the anthropocentrical global warming conspiracy on the conspirators....
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Cost of College: California
Category: Education
Over the last several years, the cost of a college education in Minnesota has gone up several percent, but the range of services and opportunities one may have access to has not gone up (and in many cases gone down). This is probably true across...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:42 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Increasing Diversity among the college ranks
Diversity in Science Carnival #4 is at Urban Science Adventures...
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"Climate Gate" ... the latest scandalous outrages
Category: Climate Change
A warning before going any further: This blog will not be used as a dumping ground for the text of climategate related "released" emails. I have surveyed my readers and overwhelmingly have been told that people would prefer to not see that. So don't do...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:19 PM • 91 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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