Archives for June, 2010
Very interesting local news item regarding the Wetterling abduction
Posted by Greg Laden on June 30, 2010 The Wetterling Abduction (1989) is a relatively well known case of an unsolved child abduction. Patty Wetterling went from bereaved mother of abductee Jacob Wetterling (11 years old) to child saety advocate to Congressional canddiate. Had Patty Wetterling won her race for Congress, she’d be there instead of … yes, you guessed it, Wacko Michele…
Rape
Posted by Greg Laden on June 30, 2010 June is almost over, and with nary a comment from this blog on rape. But June is the month we normally discuss this important problem. So to comply with that idea, I’m going to point you to a couple of posts from last year. If you’ve not read them, please have a look. Especially read…
You’re Not Helping blogger William Apologizes Sincerely, Honestly.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 30, 2010 If you’ve been following along, you’ll want to visit this comment on The Buddha Is Not Serious blog. My response: Thank you William, I appreciate what you’ve said, accept it at face value, and encourage you to reconsider your statement that you will never blog again. Hey, Quiche Moraine is always looking for guest blogging.…
Whale Evolution (including major new discovery in Peru)
Posted by Greg Laden on June 30, 2010 First this: Then this:
“A Change Is Coming” LeRoy Bell
Posted by Greg Laden on June 30, 2010 A Change Is Coming, by Leroy Bell, who happens to be my nephew. Pretty good, huh!?
Are you are real skeptic, or are you just faithing it?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 30, 2010 And by faithing it, I mean using faith rather than critical analysis of the available information to make important decisions about what to regard as valid.
One of these ads is fake, but I can’t tell which one
Posted by Greg Laden on June 30, 2010 One Year Ago in Minnesota:
Posted by Greg Laden on June 30, 2010 Coleman Steps Aside: Franken is Senator Let us not forget, Coleman was an absolute jerk during the whole process. And,he was a sucky senator. Subsequent to Franken’s establishment in office, he has proven himself equal to the best. Indeed, his lack of experience in elected office in general and the senate in particular is rather…
The BP Oil Spill isn’t really that bad, is it?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2010 Oh. Hey, what do you say, the next person who says “environmentalists have always made these extreme predictions and they never come true” gets a boot. Somewhere. Somewhere deep. The dozens of dolphins and the sperm whale trapped in the oil, dead or near death, start at around 6:20. The end is a little strange.
It is God’s plan that you bear the child of your rapist
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2010 I heard a white male blogger said something, or failed to say something, or whatever. So, let’s pile on and verbally pound him for a while! Because, you know, there is nothing worse going on in the world when it comes to buying and selling (with money or votes) women’s freedoms!!! Or is there?
YNH Meltdown Updates (and, WTF Zuska?)
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2010 As you know, Oedepus Maximus, with the help of a handful of diligent women and men put all into one place the data needed to prove that the now infamous You’re Not Helping blog was not in fact written by a woman and three men of possible ethnic diversity working out of the Midwestern US.…
Evolution: Education and Outreach dedicates issue to Genie Scott
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2010 The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach (volume 3, number 2) is in honor of — if a few months in advance of — the sixty-fifth birthday of NCSE‘s executive director Eugenie C. Scott. Edited by NCSE’s deputy director Glenn Branch (who contributed “Three wishes for Genie” by way of introduction), it contains essays…
Skepticism 101: What do you think?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2010 Skepchicon starts in two days. For those of you who don’t know, Skepchicon is a “track” at Convergence, which in turn is one of those science fiction conventions where everyone dresses up as a Klingon or something.
My congressional representative is lame
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2010 Happy Blogoversary Primate Diaries!
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2010 One year ago today, EMJ started PD. And, that blog has proven a valuable contribution to scienceblog.com.
Skepchickon. In three … two … one …
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2010 Just one week to go, kids! I’m working my ass off on finishing touches, but the Skepchick Spaceship is mostly go for launch! I’m very much looking forward to seeing a bunch of you there. You’re in for a fantastic weekend. …. Click here
Three anniversaries of note
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2010 Yesterday: The famous Jason and Jodi Event on the Internet. Relive it here. Today: The anniversary of freeDOS. Tomorrow, the death of TH Huxley. Details here. Funny how things happen in threes. I wonder why?
Every time a skeptic tells a lie, a blog somewhere dies
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2010 Just so you know, this post led to this meltdown.
The “Humans are/are not Apes” Falsehood discussion is now in podcast form
Posted by Greg Laden on June 27, 2010 …. along with the discussion of Transhumanism. Click here.
Deep Impact/EPOXI will fly past Earth this Today
Posted by Greg Laden on June 27, 2010 It’s one of those hitch hiking deals: NASA’s Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft will fly past Earth this Sunday (June 27). Mission navigators have tailored this trajectory so the spacecraft can “hitch a ride” on Earth’s gravity field, which will help propel the mission toward its appointment with comet Hartley 2 this fall. At time of closest…
Are women “bailing out” of IT?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 27, 2010 Or are they being pushed out, but blamed for it? A blog post in on Womensenews.org, raises interesting issues.
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Posted by Greg Laden on June 27, 2010 Only for white girls:
How did the victims of the Plinean Eruption of Vesuvius die?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 27, 2010 Even at the most extreme edges of the flow of stuff out of the volcano Pompeii, at the far edge of the mud and ash that came from the volcano’s explosion, the heat was sufficient to instantly kill everyone, even those inside their homes. And that is how the people at Pompeii, who’s remains were…
Church of emacs Sunday Sermon: games
Posted by Greg Laden on June 27, 2010 Church Suspects Treated like Possible Criminals. Vatican Shocked.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 27, 2010 I’m not going to say anything about the methods the Belgian authorities have used, because I don’t know anything about due process in that country. (Though I did notice that that Belgian police carry big machine guns, at least when I’ve been there.) Anyway, the Vatican has it’s shorts in a twist because civilian police…
Germany has a magic octopus
Posted by Greg Laden on June 26, 2010 He swam straight over to the German glass, climbed in and even put a lid on top once he was sitting inside.” Huh?
What to do with those pesky religious skeptics
Posted by Greg Laden on June 26, 2010 In which I provide my two cents regarding the current discussion between PZ Myers, Pamela Gay, and others.
Gulf States Continue to be Stoopid
Posted by Greg Laden on June 26, 2010 I know you don’t like when I say this, but you people living in Florida through Louisiana (and points in between) are not exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer. As it were.
The Myth of Christianity Founding Modern Science and Medicine
Posted by Greg Laden on June 26, 2010 If you’ve not seen this graph, or read this blog post, you should:
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