Now on ScienceBlogs: The Australian's War on Science 41

Seed Media Group

Greg Laden's Blog

Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff

Recent Comments

Profile


Welcome to Greg Laden's Blog.




Nature Blog Network



Search

Blogroll

Join the best atheist themed blogroll!
GLB_LOGO_180w.png
GLB_LOGO_180w.png
openlab08-submit.150.png



open_access_day_blog_award.jpg

Archives

Recent Posts

lost congo memoir:

Crocs Afar

Category: lost congo memoir

One day, about six thousand years ago (or more like 15 thousand … the timing of this is disputed) a volcano in the vicinity of Mwea, Uganda blasted a huge volume of stuff into the air, covering the surrounding landscape and choking off most of...

Read on »

RIP Franco

Category: lost congo memoir

We knew what you meant, even if the Big Man never did....

Read on »

Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) I

Category: Falsehoods

I'd like to offer a way of thinking about the difference between what we call "civilization" and what some people call "primitive cultures" that will be more useful and less falsehood-prone

Read on »

The poor and the dark skinned have more babies than the rich and the light skinned

Category: Falsehoods

Today's falsehood is the assertion that the poor have more babies than the rich, or that the poor just have more babies to begin with. In comparison to ... whatever.

Read on »

What a Difference a Century Can Make

Category: Anthropology

The traveler was a college-educated westerner with a late-Victorian attitude about Africans. The idea that all Africans are at least a little subhuman would have been a starting point for him.

Read on »

Mail Order Brides and Hypergyny

Category: Anthropology

I've noticed that Scienceblogs.com has been running ads for hot Russian mail order brides. These ads are rather funny ...

Read on »

The good book

Category: Missionaries

"So, since Radiocarbon dating has been proved to not work, how do we really know that the earth is billions of years old?"

Read on »

Don't be a Jew

Category: lost congo memoir

And so Grinker read the text, and a few sentences in it became clear that this was one of those bible passages that had a lot to say about the Jews. The Jews were bad, the Jews could not be trusted, the Jews needed to convert, and so on and so forth.

Read on »

Dirty poor people living in slime: Missionaries and American Idol

Category: Missionaries

... you can look at the smiling face of an African Child bursting with happiness, and think, "well ... he's happy" and not understand this is kid will die of malaria next month because you needed a new cell phone. Or because he lives near a Christian mission with a medical facility but is not a Christian ...

Read on »

Attack of the Hound of Malembi. Or, "Whose are these people, anyway?"

Category: Missionaries

One day a rabid dog appeared out of nowhere, bit three or four goats, killed my cat, and bit six people.

Read on »

ScienceBlogs

Search ScienceBlogs:

Go to:

Advertisement
Follow ScienceBlogs on Twitter
Visit the Collective Imagination blog
Advertisement
Enter to win

© 2006-2009 Seed Media Group LLC. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Seed Media Group. All rights reserved.

Sites by Seed Media Group: Seed Media Group | ScienceBlogs | SEEDMAGAZINE.COM