This was a very interesting month for blogging. I produced an average number of posts (ca 250), but with a twist: I reposted more old posts than I usually do, but I also wrote more words of original full blown essays than I usually do. I think that may be a good mix, because I…

Some interesting things for you to red between now and my next post, which will be on lions. Is there a tamiflu resistant strain of the swine flu? Effect Measure discussed this. Bora and PZ are at a conference and they’re blogging it. Here and here. Carnival of Space is here

Happy Third Blogoversary Janie!

“My mother’s behaving better. I’m starting to think I might not have to kill her and bury her in the back yard.” A post by Stephanie Zvan on the nature of human nature, at Quiche Moraine.

For you Political Junkies. Douche Limbaugh Strikes Again Hey! Do you know what’s REALLY driving up the cost of health care in the USA? Why, according to Douche Limbaugh, it’s people who exercise! Yep. People interested in fitness are responsible for expensive health care. See if you can follow this “logic” Apparently, Douche can’t tell…

Gendering Insect Repellent? “…packaging the same mosquito repellent product in two different ways” … to appeal to different genders. Is Water a Woman’s Burden? Hear Sudanese refugee Rose Oduho talk about the role women play in the household. Healthcare Inspired Terrorism? “Even I am speechless over this. You know those terrorists captured a couple of…

DuWayne has his own post up asking the question Are All Men Capable of Rape? Laelaps has created a blog carnival all his own highlighting a selection of posts on the fossil known as Ida. I will assume that Brian’s failure to include my post on the topic is a mere oversight. Why do people…

Quiche Moraine, the blog by Stephanie, Mike, Ana and Me, with frequent guest posts, has some new stuff and some old stuff I’d like to point out. This week’s guest post spot is taken by Stephanie herself, as part of the Silence is the Enemy blog swarm: Legacy of War Civilization is a necessary casualty…

Roole Number 14: “Men cannot stand stupid perfunctory women.” … follow the links (or not) at Muse in Vivo. Categorizing ideas and humans by Razib The human ability to engage in Meta-Representation is one of the hallmarks of our species. We can analyze abstract ideas, take the positions of others, examine counter-factuals and what-if’s. In…

John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. And now he is blogging at Science Blogs about all sorts of radical librarian stuff. Check it out.

It is handy to think of energy as all being the same thing but operating at different wave lengths. So the kinetic energy of ocean waves blends into the also kinetic energy of sound waves, which blends into things like infrared heat waves and microwaves and light waves. But that would be wrong. See: Light…

Why Girls Don’t Like Math Girls like to look at Pink while contacting the dead Cancer, cults, and kids Chemotherapy refusenik Daniel Hauser: On the way to Mexico with his mother? Phylogenetic roulette and the identification of sea monsters Gender Rule Follow-Ups

Memorial day weekend is coming up, and I’m going be kinda busy, memorializing stuff. I have revived an older post, somewhat modified, and put it up at Quiche Moraine: Happy Memorial Day, Jane Fonda. We’ll see if that gets a bit of discussion going. Speaking of Memorial Day, a person named James left a very…

Here is a very short list of things that need to happen. 1) Go here and read about the Montauk Monster. Then, as suggested in that post, go here and leave a link to this post. In this way you get to help stomp out ignorance. Don’t let good biology be the road kill of…

John Lynch has moved from Stranger Fruit (on Scienceblog) to a new location on the internet. Please pay him a visit and adjust your bookmarks accordingly. John’s new blog is a simple prop. That’s the name of the blog.

Don’t forget to visit Deep Sea News, where it is Sex Week. We here at DSN never shy away from writing about sex. Through reproduction, fitness is realized as progeny populate the landscape. Thus reproduction can be considered the backbone of evolution as traits are selected for and against, or perhaps not at all. ….…

The times they are a changin’ The song by our home town boy, Robert Zimmerman (you may know him as Bob Dylan) has been rewritten by The Tangled Up in Blue Guy himeself (few people know that several of Dylan’s songs are based on Mike Haubrich. Read the new lyrics here. ~ ~ ~ ~…

And I can prove it.

Why do I enjoy swearing so much? One reason is that I come from a long line of female swearers. My grandmother had no problem swearing, and my mom, a Lutheran minister by trade, was no different. Mom was the only mom and/or minister I knew who swore freely with pleasure and without a sense…

Quiche Moraine Dot Com has two new items for you: MIke with Writing as a Release and as a Chore and Guest Blogger Monica Wittstock, with The Secrets of Mother’s Day In addition, there is a new release of Ana’s reading list.

The goal of Digital Rabbit blog is to help achieve the UN’s millenium goal to “Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.” The about page has more details as to how this may be achieved. I strongly urge you to go to Digital Rabbit, click…

Whatever you do, don’t believe Michele Bachmann. Debunking Jesus, and Camp Quest on Atheists Talk #0069, Sunday May 10th 2009 Just in Time for Swine Flu season: Designer Respirator Masks! More on the Merck Maneno: CAM, Anti-Vax loons and the Morons at Merck How should we tax all that carbon?

You can get SMS updates about Swine Flu here. Mike is keeping track of Panic at the RNC. Latest Dump Michele Bachmann has some interesting stuff. Including this: After that, have a glass of wine. It’s good for you. Is there a Doctor in house! Yes, if the house is this one. Congratulations Mike Taylor.…

You’ve heard about the swine flu that is about to sweep across the land? Here’s the latest from a reliable source. Do people in the south ever wear confederate military uniforms to funerals, or is Mike Dunford confused? More on Twitter from James Hrynyshyn An excellent post explaining why global warming is not real. Or,…

PZ Myers promotes development of two headed chimeric monsters, despite warnings by church. Details here. a Nadder points out how America is Ruining it for Everyone in the area of Human Rights: Keeping Questionable Company Two safety related posts: Deltoid: Study Says Minicars Increase Safety Denialism Blog: Trauma II

My Sblings are always interesting (when they are not being overly annoying) but I thought I’d point out a couple of items you may find especially interesting: James Hrynyshyn has more than 140 characters to say about Twitter. Orac: If you think anti-vaccine loons are just crunchy left-wing New Agers, think again. I meet a…