Archives for November, 2009
The Science in the Movie 2012
Posted by Greg Laden on November 21, 2009 Who are better conversationalists. Cats or dogs?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 21, 2009 Cats: Dogs: Bonus Video:
Which is more intense. Cats or Chipmunks?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 21, 2009 Cat: Chipmunk: Yeah, I know, that’s probably not a chipmunk.
Global Warming Alarmist Conspiracy Emails Hacked!!!11!!
Posted by Greg Laden on November 21, 2009 The Anthropocentric Global Warming Denialist Community is collectively creaming in its collective jeans over the release of zillions of emails that definitively prove that the whole global warming conspiracy thing was made up. Real Climate has the story:
Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #9
Posted by Greg Laden on November 20, 2009 Medical Matters: H1N1, Science Ignorance and Cancer Screening
Posted by Greg Laden on November 20, 2009 I have a few non-authoritative comments regarding recent and current medical developments. This concerns the flu (esp. the H1N1 Swine Pandemic Flu), and the two recent changes in screening recommendations, for breast and cervical cancer and related issues.
Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #10
Posted by Greg Laden on November 20, 2009 Artificial Intelligence on Collective Imagination …
Posted by Greg Laden on November 20, 2009 Artificial Intelligence as a term implies that there is a “natural” intelligence we wish to replicate in the lab and then engineer in any one of several practical contexts. There is nothing in the term that implies that “intelligence” be human, but the implication is clear that such a thing as “intelligence” exists and that…
Electricity Gone Wild
Posted by Greg Laden on November 20, 2009 A high-voltage arc caused by a 500kV Switch opening up in the Nevada Desert. An enormous Jacob’s Ladder
Creationist-Kootied Origin Comes to the Twin Cities
Posted by Greg Laden on November 20, 2009 Some guy named David (but he would not give his last name) and his friends were handing around Ray Comfort’s tricked-out version of Darwin’s Origin of Species on the University of Minnesota Campus today. Thanks to my former student Becky for sending me these links: Minnesota Daily: Creationists hand out Darwin’s book with a twist…
LOL Texans! You banned all marriage, dudes!
Posted by Greg Laden on November 20, 2009 All marriage was accidentally banned in Texas when Texas banned “Gay Marriage.” What a bunch of morons. Details here.
JPEG vs PNG
Posted by Greg Laden on November 19, 2009 A zillion funny computer images are here.
New way to back up files?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 19, 2009 Send an email to yourself in the future! This service allows you to send an email to yourself in the future. This is a little like an assignment my daughter was given this year in school: A letter to yourself that you are then forced to open and read when you are a Senior. Only…
Interesting ethical question: When a DNA testing firm closes, who gets the data?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 19, 2009 An Icelandic firm that offers private DNA testing to customers has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., raising privacy concerns about the fate of customer DNA samples and records, according to the Times of London. DeCODE Genetics, a genetics research firm, began offering personalized DNA testing through its deCODEme website two years ago. A customer…
The bartenders were standing on the bar looking past the crowd …
Posted by Greg Laden on November 19, 2009 … overflowing from the room with the stage. Every chair in the bar area had one or two people standing on it, as did most of the tables. … models moved a couple at a time out onto the open stage, walked around and sometimes did things to make the crowd laugh or scream ……
Church of Scientology is a Criminal Organization
Posted by Greg Laden on November 19, 2009 According to an Australian Australian Senator Nick Zenophon.
Atlantis Launch
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2009 There are not going to be too many more of these:
Pabst Blue Ribbon is Hip?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2009 I was sitting at a very hip bar in a very hip joint the other day speaking with a couple of very hip people. Then one of the hipsters asked the bartender for a couple of “PBR’s” “PBR,” I thought. That must be the hip new drink. And silly me, I’m sitting here drinking my…
Make Lava at Home: Don’t try this with your good microwave
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2009 Do not try this at home unless you are a certified physics teacher. Try not to think about what all the crap is in this guy’s microwave. And do wear goggles. The really interesting part is after five minutes. That’s where the science starts.
Bachmann Violated Rules with Tea Party Event
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2009 You probably heard about Michele Bachmann’s “Whites of their eyes” event last week, where she urged reporters to arrive en masse at the US Capitol, to swarm the halls and glare at their congresspersons in the eyes until the blinked. Or voted against health care insurance reform. Or something.
Amazing Example of Misplaced Maternal Behavior
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2009 Hat Tip: Julia
More on cooking a turkey
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2009 Cooking turkey is actually kind of a dumb idea. Most people don’t ever cook turkey. Turkey is like chicken … it’s a domestic bird that is familiar to all Americans … but it is very difficult to cook in a way that does not ruin it. So once a year, you cook this huge bird…
Gah!!! ack… gasp …. ok breath, ok breath…. phew….
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2009 Wow. My internet connection was down for a few hours. Did I miss anything?
Milky Way Rising Video
Posted by Greg Laden on November 18, 2009 Milky Way Rising from Dean Rowe on Vimeo.
Help with writers block.
Posted by Greg Laden on November 17, 2009 I’m writing an academic article and I have writers block. Lets see … what shall I do….
The Top 15 Excuses Religious People Give for the Horrible Behavior of their God
Posted by Greg Laden on November 17, 2009 From an “unknown greater good” to “evil is necessary to prove God’s existence” it’s all a lot of hooey and post hoc justification. August Berkshire has a new version of his list, here.
Mastering IPTables: The Movie
Posted by Greg Laden on November 17, 2009 First, blotto one light bulb to appease the gods: Then…
Nova: Becoming Human Hour Three: I’m speechless.
Posted by Greg Laden on November 17, 2009 The first part of this documentary, including the preface and the first several minutes of the main body of the work, should be deleted. The writers and producers who put that part together should be captured, gutted, eviscerated, and their dried and salted remains staked to the front entrance of the Public Broadcasting System as…
Check these out.
Posted by Greg Laden on November 17, 2009 I never realized that George Bush had such a bald-fetish until I saw THIS. Follow the money Fully automatic cute fuzzy thing.
, which is now available for the 
