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Look at this tweet by Obama
Posted by Greg Laden on May 16, 2013 Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous. Read more: OFA.BO/gJsdFp — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 16, 2013
Should you drink tap water or bottled water?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 14, 2013 
This is the time of year, spring, when a lot of people switch to drinking bottled water instead of tap water. They do this because in their particular area the tap water seems to “go bad” … usually it is a mild smell or a slightly icky taste. This makes people fear their tap water,…
Want to boycott stuff? There’s an app for that.
Posted by Greg Laden on May 14, 2013 
Vote with your wallet. Tired of the Koch Brothers ruining everything for everybody? Prefer to buy products from companies that contribute to Sandy relief? Do you just want to know which major megacorporation produced the item you are considering putting in your shopping cart? Wouldn’t it be nice to have an app that allowed you…
Who is the richest person in the world?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 14, 2013 This came up the other day, so I figured I’d note the answer(s) down and share it with you so we don’t have to look this up in the internet again until 2013 is over. The, I think they get new richest people. Most of these answers come from Forbes, which appears to be in…
The Story of Genie
Posted by Greg Laden on May 8, 2013 As you know, Genie Scott of the NCSE will retire this year. Here is her story.
Scicurious talks to the internet. Wow.
Posted by Greg Laden on May 8, 2013 This is interesting and important. Hello Bethany, I’ve always been a huge fan.
An Amazing Infographic on Coffee
Posted by Greg Laden on May 8, 2013 Your morning caffeine fix is but a drop in the global bucket that makes coffee the number two most traded commodity in the world after petroleum. But with 100 million Americans like you drinking coffee every day, the bucket easily overflows to make the US the world’s top coffee consumer… Courtesy of: Online Finance News…
Bill O’Reilly, you are ON NOTICE
Posted by Greg Laden on May 8, 2013 Stop lying to your fans. They are beginning to figure it out. Watch: Here is some background.
Bee loss be bad this year
Posted by Greg Laden on May 8, 2013 In the united states, bee keepers lose a certain number of colonies over the winter. This is normal, but bee keepers maintain that losses of about 15 percent or less are “acceptable.” I don’t know what the logical or empirical basis for that number is, however. Yesterday, the results of a report that surveys bee…
How to pass a secret life saving message to abused children
Posted by Greg Laden on May 6, 2013 This is fairly amazing. Watch:
The Blair Witch Project but with Stairs.
Posted by Greg Laden on May 5, 2013 The Zodiac
Posted by Greg Laden on May 3, 2013 Standing there chest deep in the waves, my first thought was “I am so glad the bottom of The Big Lake is sandy and not muddy” When we abandoned ship, I knew shallow water was nearby, but I thought it might be mud, maybe something like quicksand. I thought this because the nearest ‘dry’ land…
Are Anthropologists a Dangerous Tribe?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 2, 2013 Two young boys are having an argument while their fathers, resting in hammocks, look on. The argument is over something silly but escalates until the dads decide to intervene. They equip each boy with a small pole and position them face to face, explaining the rules of the game. Each child has the opportunity to…
Discussion of Boston Marathon Bombing on Vonvo
Posted by Greg Laden on April 30, 2013 Vonvo.com is a new thing. We had a conversation about the Boston Marathon Bombing. I wish there had been a sound check, I could have had my mic up higher. Also, that notification beep you will repeatedly hear is not your computer (or mine) so just ignore it! Anyway, it is in two parts:
Global Warming vs. Climate Change
Posted by Greg Laden on April 28, 2013 This video by Media Matters on the Zany Denialists on Fox News ……… ….. is nicely augmented by this blog post by Phil Plait: Climate Change or Global Warming? Both.
Scott Lohman Interviews Edwina Rogers
Posted by Greg Laden on April 27, 2013 Almost a year ago, Edwina Rogers took over as the executive director of the Secular Coalition for America. It’s been an ambitious, busy year for the Secular Coalition. This Sunday, Rogers joins us to talk with Scott Lohman about what they’ve accomplished and where they’re going in the next year. They’ll also discuss the formation…
Genealogy, Kinship and DNA …
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2013 … Or, Why Did Your Great-great-grandfather Marry His Cousin? A talk I’m giving …. Genealogy reveals the structure of family relationships among distant relatives. Why do certain families intermarry while others shun each other? For the young singles, how do you calculate your suaboyä, in order to find the ideal spouse? Brookdale Library Thursday, April…
Congressional Republican #Fail
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2013 Every disaster in the US has at least three Congressional representatives associated with it (2 Senators, one House rep). Those representatives have at least two roles: 1) Causing/avoiding the disaster or making it less/more bad, to begin with, by way of their efforts in congress; and 2) Helping or not helping once the disaster happens.…
The Boston Bombers: Something for everybody
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2013 
Well, not everybody. First lets talk about some losers. Someday a brave journalist will ask the FBI why they had one of the suspects in sight a couple of years ago but this still happened. Chances are there is a very good answer and we should not be mad at the FBI for this, but…
Geology vs. Cars
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2013 One of these days I’ll tell you the story of when I was almost killed permanently by sink hole. I’ll probably have to package that story with the time I was buried alive in a trench (for symmetry). These things happen to archaeologists. Not as often as getting pinned down by gunfire, or running out…
#lets_kill_some_abortion_doctors
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2013 
So … … If you aren’t familiar with Jill Stanek, she’s just an awful anti-choicer. She thinks if you murder a doctor who performs abortions, it’s wrong, but not so wrong that you deserve to be sent to PRISON! That’s for like, bad people, and stuff! … 1. The man who murdered Dr. Tiller “[did]…
WANTED: Suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombing
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2013 
The FBI has released an electronic wanted poster for you to look at. Somebody knows these people. Do you? You know what to do: (click on the picture of the FBI web site to go through to the FBI web site) Here’s an enhanced video of the scene: One of the guys might be wearing…
It is only fair to the earth that we build the Keystone XL Pipeline…
Posted by Greg Laden on April 17, 2013 …and release as much carbon into the atmosphere as we can. HERE’S WHY.
Feed me or I’ll die, and possibly take you with me!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 16, 2013 Years ago it was pointed out by somebody, probably Tinbergen or Lack or Wynn-Edwards or one of the other great bird-savvy ethologists of the day, that young Pelicans would blackmail their parents by biting their own wings, a very self defeating activity for a bird with a huge and powerful beak. “If you don’t feed…
Atheist Voices of Minnesota Mention
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2013 The book Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories has a mention in Publisher’s Weekly: While Prometheus Books is the grandfather of publishing atheism books, there are two upstarts, another indication of the category’s strength. The newest is Freethought House, founded in 2011 and debuting last August with Atheist Voices of Minnesota edited…
Anthony Leiserowitz on Making People Care About Climate Change
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2013 Climate Denialists Attack Author on Amazon. Again.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 15, 2013 Once again, the winged monkeys of climate change denialim are writing fake, stupid, made up an absurd reviews of Michael Man’s book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines on Amazon.com. If you’ve read the book and like it and have not written a review of it on Amazon, please…
Soviet Era Space Flight White Lies
Posted by Greg Laden on April 14, 2013 Yuri Gagarin’s Falsified Record – It Happened in Space
Celebrity Swatting: 4Chan? Probably
Posted by Greg Laden on April 13, 2013 You know about celebrity swatting? It’s when 4chaners trick the police into arriving at a celebrity’s home under the assumption that there is a hostage situation or something like that. It is incredibly stupid, obnoxious, dangerous, and a famous 4chaner-er (whom you probably know of but whose name I will not mention or he’ll do…
The Hermit of Maine
Posted by Greg Laden on April 12, 2013 Maine is my favorite state. If you’ve not visited then your life is an empty shell and you don’t even know it. But it is also true that I’ve seen and heard some of the strangest things I’ve ever encountered there. So strange I can’t even tell you about it. The story that recently emerge…
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