Now on ScienceBlogs: The Galaxy's Biggest Valentine
Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff
Looking for stuff about birds?
Learn more about Charles Darwin and his work.
Lean more about lions
An archaeological expedition to the Congo
The contents of Greg Laden's Blog are copyrighted by Greg Laden.
Click on "About" for the big picture, and "Archives" for the details.
Category: Africa
Nazi Holocaust: 1939 - 1945 War crimes trials: Fall 1945 DR Congo genocide: 1996-1997 War crimes trials: Still thinking about it. I guess that brackets the range of potential variation. (Note: This does not refer to the other, related genocide of Tutsi, for which trials...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo War
The UN's human rights chief has said the "scale and viciousness" of mass rapes in DR Congo "defy belief", as a report into the attack was released. Navi Pillay said that, even for the region, the incident stood out because of the "extraordinarily cold-blooded and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 ...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:44 AM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Rape
-Activists concerned by this year's escalation of sexual violence in eastern Congo are trying to turn up the heat on those benefitting--directly or indirectly--from illicit mineral extractions. "Conflict minerals power our entire electronic industry," John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, told U.S. senators at...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: feminism
Please read the following vignette of an actual incident. I am a scientist observing the culture of the Namoyoma people. I am sitting in a shady spot just outside the village, writing up some notes, and I observe a disturbing event. Four men are trying...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:00 AM • 125 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo Memoirs
This is the final Congo Memoir. The penultimate installment is here. The final installment is below the fold .... If you are interested in issues pertaining to the Congo that are quite current, consider having a look at Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:36 PM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo Memoirs
...continued... I was just stepping out of the store, where I had purchased a piece of cloth to bring back to the US, when I heard the awful sound....
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:53 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo Memoirs
Clearly, the naval officer's goal was to take my boat and motor. He essentially said this to me. "It is the job of the navy to confiscate any boat that my be faster or more powerful than the Navy's boat." "Where's your, boat?" "I don't...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:54 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo Memoirs
As I raised my hand in defiance of the soldiers, I knew for certain that he was never going to give the order to fire. If his intention was to kill me, he would order his men to stand down and simply shoot me with his pistol. But even that was a virtual impossibility. The paperwork that would need to be filled out prohibited that particular decision.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:21 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo Memoirs
The Congo Memoirs continue. The last episode was Return Of The Green Pickup. The next episode is below the fold .......
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:06 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
casaubon's book 02.13.2012
denialism blog 02.13.2012
respectful insolence 02.13.2012
evolutionblog 02.12.2012
starts with a bang! 02.11.2012
