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The Nazis in Greece, who over the weekend gained some seats in Parliament, are likely to continue to be a factor in a new election experts say will likely be held in about a month or so. These are the real deal … apparently they self identify as Nazis but the party name is “Golden…

Anybody live, camp or cabin near the Lost 40 or the Boundary Waters? Let these people know. More of the story here

Next week, Amanda and I will be Dining in the Dark. It has been determined that I will be wearing a suit. If you are in the Twin Cities, why don’t you join us! Click Here to find out what it is all about. I just checked and there are a few tickets left. Better…

Starting now, I will be writing blog post now and then at Minnesota Progressive Project. I’ll be focusing on the intersection of science and politics, the politics of science, and now and then I’l rant wildly about something random. My inaugural post is HERE. It is about the possibility of a Science Debate in Minnesota…

… for the idiot from Madison Wisconsin who has been commenting on this site on a very regular basis for a long time and has recently taken to writing a comment several times a day, using different names, and quite often, using YOUR names. His regular use of the names of regular commenters on this…

The Heartland Institute is tonight’s tool time for putting out insane ads attacking the theory of climate change. The Heartland Institute is a deep pocketed conservative organization that counts Koch industries, Phillip Morris and Microsoft among its well-heeled donors. The Institute is funding a school curriculum to question the theory that carbon emissions have caused…

The author of the historically transformative and widely loved book “Where the Wild Things Are” had died. He was 83. Standing with a character from his book Where the Wild Things Are, author and illustrator Maurice Sendak speaks with the media Jan. 11, 2002, at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in New York City. Sendak…

This was just posted on State Farm’s facebook page: State Farm is ending its association with the Heartland Institute. This is because of a recent billboard campaign launched by the Institute. That was a result of this: An Open Letter to State Farm about Climate Denial Bwahahahaha… Go “like” it!!!! on Facebook!

Shawn Otto, author of Fool me Twice, will be on Science Friday this week talking about Science Debate with Ira Flatow and Vern Ehlers. Fri 1-2 CT, 2-3 ET

A more sophisticated form of underwear bomb has been developed, but the CIA has thwarted an attempt to deploy it to blow up a US based plane. The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009. [it has] a more refined detonation…

Discussed: The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science–and Reality, which I’ve got my copy of and am now reading, and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion which I’m probably never going to get to.

Tom Levenson will be on Skeptically Speaking later today, talking about his book Newton and the Counterfeiter.

We had a hella storm come through the Twin Cities last night. Some hail, some wind, but piles of lightning. And then this happened in Dinkytown: Lightning struck a high power line, which fell across a couple of parked cars and stayed “live.” The live line heated up the pavement on the street enough that…

Thank you to all the bloggers and others who jumped immediately on the Heartland Institute for putting up horribly offensive billboards equating scientists with the scientist/mathematician killing terrorist Unibomber. I have heard unofficially that Heartland will be taking down those billboards. We’ll see. more details:

…. comparing holocaust survivors to Hitler? Hmong refugees to Pol Pot? Well, maybe not exactly but there is a structural similarity. People at the Heartland Institute have very little to do with science and very little experience in that area of academics. Otherwise they would remember the Unibomber days, when everyone was worried about the…

Have a look at this story. The first blind patients to be fitted with electronic eye implants in a UK clinical trial have regained “useful vision” only weeks after surgery…. The implants are basically little camera chips that get hooked up to the neural circuitry in the eye. The results are not normal human developed…

These are two of a series of videos made by faculty and students at various Twin Cities area schools as part of a contest to get a local furniture store to help them improve their teacher’s lounge. These are my two favorite videos of the bunch. Nellie Stone Johnson Community School, in North Minneapolis, an…

Martha and I were walking down the street…Downer Street, if I recall correctly…heading north from the campus of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. We were close to the Kinko’s, which was on the west side of the north-south trending street, and about to cross. We were in fact off the curb and checking for…