Check out the Furious Purpose blog, written by a long time denizen of the Internet, yet newish blogger, written by … …an overworked emergency room doctor, a father and citizen, and I blog infrequently about stuff that interests me.This might include things like Health, Politics, Religion, and whatever tickles my fancy ! I have a…

Jim Emery’s series is complete, and you should look through it. I find it interesting that he speaks about the “Macaca moment” and all that entails, given the current situation in the Minnesota Governor’s race. Jim’s posts describe what it was like to be in the communications division of a major congressional campaign: Inside the…

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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.

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…

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”…

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,…

What does skepticism look like from a Native American perspective? …change is never an easy obstacle to overcome. People fear the unknown and find comfort in daily routines, habits, and ritual tradition. Society itself has become too comfortable with some of the ways we think and perceive issues in America. People tend to not understand…

Yet another study on why women shop, from an evolutionary perspective: In an unconscious attempt to outdo female rivals, ovulating women buy sexier clothing, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. “Not unlike the chimps featured on the Discovery Channel, women become more competitive with other females during the handful of…

Terra Sigillata has settled at Central Science. Click here to visit the new blog and find out the details.

My brother, who lives in Kentucky, very recently had similar corrective heart surgery as PZ’s. He sent me this video to pass on to PZ of what appears to be the latest trend in Kentucky health food, as well as the main novel food item that will be sold at the Kentucky State Fair which…

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Timely: Investigations into research misconduct cost US institutions more than US$110 million per year, estimates a study published this week. But experts contacted by Nature question whether calculating the cost of investigation is the right way to measure the impact of research misconduct. read the rest at Nature

The word on the street is that PZ Myers has been surgically updated and will return home soon, probably tomorrow. My understanding is that he received a stent, which is routine, but as long as they had him on the table they also upgraded his laser eye blaster tubes and retractable squid arm assemblies. So…

For the past three years, Marilyn Bess has operated MS Philly Organic, a small, low-traffic blog that features occasional posts about green living, out of her Manayunk home. Between her blog and infrequent contributions to ehow.com, over the last few years she says she’s made about $50. To Bess, her website is a hobby. To…

You know of DuWayne Brayton as the over the top highly opinionated commenter who is always giving everyone a hard time on this blog, or when not here, on his own blog. (Which, by the way, has recently undergone a style change, and I like it.) Well, you may not know that DuWayne writes fiction…