Archives for August 25, 2010
McLean vs. Arkansas 20 Years Later: Part III – Gould speaks!
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 Teabagger attempts to kill Muslim in NYC
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 In addition to a serious neck wound, Ahmed H. Sharif suffered cuts to forearms, face and one hand while trying to fend off Enright, prosecutor James Zeleta said while arguing against bail.
TD 07 –> TS Earl
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 Earl, previously known as tropical depression 07, is now Tropical Storm Earl, and is cranking up through this ‘middle school’ phase of the cyclone life cycle so quickly that by the time you read this Earl might be a hurricane. Or in his case, a himicane.
“A new theory of evolution proves what Sarah Palin has always known: Darwin was a retard”
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 As I predicted earlier today, various journalists are taking up the theme that “Darwin was wrong” because he did not predict that niches into which organisms evolved would be a major controlling feature in the overall pattern of evolution. But of course, he did, and the new research being referred to does not “disprove darwin.”…
Less than a week to private space launch
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 In which an actual living person, instead of just the ashes of TV actors, will be launched into space. Here’s a picture of the rocket and it’s friend, the submarine: Our mission is very simple. We are working towards launching a human being into space. This is a non-profit suborbital space endeavor lead by Kristian…
I’ve never been paid a dime by a Democrat
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 Obviously, I have to switch parties: Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new information “like piranhas in a pool.” But increasingly, many bloggers are also secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns, in a form of partisan payola that erases the line between journalism and paid endorsement. “It’s standard operating procedure”…
Is Obama really a Muslim?
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 Or is he merely …. an atheist?
More on being a dick
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 Don’t be a random, arbitrary dick. Be meaningful and relevant in your dickosity: If your dickishness is going to help you communicate the values of skepticism, it has to relate, directly and immediately, to the circumstances that warrant anger. Read the rest here And then, if you want to know everything else about this topic,…
Danielle is back UPDATE
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 Danielle is a hurricane again. Not real well organized but showing signs of getting its act together, Danielle will likely continue to strengthen for a couple/few days, remain a hurricane for a couple of days, then start weakening in about five days. This is all going to happen out in the middle of the Atlantic,…
US troops punished for avoiding religious concert?
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 From Military.com via the TFN: The Army said Friday it was investigating a claim that dozens of soldiers who refused to attend a Christian band’s concert at a Virginia military base were banished to their barracks and told to clean them up.
Natural Selection vs. Opportunity in Macroevolutionary Patterning of the Fossil Record
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 I’m going to talk about one or two peer reviewed papers, but in doing so, I’m going to have to say a few words … and this will not be pretty … about a certain science writer’s report at the BBC. In an article titled “Space is the final frontier for evolution, study claims” BBC…
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