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Category: Birds
This was not an intensive bird watching day. This was a day driving to the cabin, sitting in the cabin writing, looking out the window, driving to run an errand, going to town for dinner, sitting in the cabin looking out the window some more,...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Race and Racism
Nature, the publishing group, not the Mother, has taken Darwin's 200th as an opportunity to play the race card (which always sells copy) and went ahead and published two opposing views on this question: "Should scientists study race and IQ? The answers are Yes, argued...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:55 PM • 103 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Minnesota
The lake is icy-green and in the distance almost blends into the sky through a fast moving fog bank. The bald eagles (a pair and one offspring) are up to something in the back, one of them making swings over the bay and then back...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:08 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is a new paper, just coming out in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that explores the idea that humans have undergone an increased rate of evolution over the last several tens of thousands of years. By an increased rate of evolution, the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Minnesota
They say Lake Itasca is the source of the Mississippi. This is why there is a big state park surrounding the lake, a park that preserves some beautiful old forest despite the best efforts of 19th century lumberjacks to cut it down. Amanda next to...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:17 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Disease" is a big word. I'd like to address this question by focusing on the difference, or lack of difference, between a poison, a disease, and a yummy thing to eat. It turns out that they may all be the same. Yet different....
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:41 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last night, the Campus Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists club (C.A.S.H.) presented a debate between PZ Myers and Loyal Rue on the question: Can religion and science co-exist? I witnessed this event and would like to tell you what happened....
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:51 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is a new paper, just coming out in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that explores the idea that humans have undergone an increased rate of evolution over the last several tens of thousands of years....
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:00 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Nature-Nurture
All of the following stories have one thing in common: They relate to the Nature-Nurture issue....
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PZ Myers 11.23.2009
Tim Lambert 11.22.2009
PZ Myers 11.23.2009
Ed Brayton 11.23.2009
Orac 11.23.2009
