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Posted by Greg Laden on July 26, 2008 Corpus Callosum ~ The Field Negro ~ The Flying Trilobite ~ Reasic (global warming) ~ Angry Toxicologist ~ Bad Astronomy ~ Shes such a geek ~ The Island of Doubt ~ lunartalks ~ An Inconvenient Truth ~ Egyptology News ~ Life Before Death ~ Neurophilosophy ~ Mendel’s Garden ~ Mechanically Separated Meat ~ Salamander Candy…
The Wrong Way to Approach the Evolution-Creationism Debate
Posted by Greg Laden on July 26, 2008 Amy Binder and John H. Evans, associate professors of Sociology at the University of California at San Diego, have written a piece on efforts to force religion in the guise of Intelligent Design and Creationism down the throats of children in Texas. A proposal before the Texas Board of Education calls for including the “strengths…
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Posted by Greg Laden on July 24, 2008 Writer’s Daily Grind ~ Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog ~ Mystery Rays from Outer Space ~ Astrocreep’s Science ~ Analyze Everything ~ Aardvarchaeology ~ Chaotic Utopia ~ Terra Sigillata ~ Paul Hutchinsons Blog ~ post doc ergo propter doc ~ Deltoid ~ The Thinking Blog ~ fool for the process ~ When Pigs Fly Returns ~…
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Posted by Greg Laden on July 22, 2008 Red State Rabble ~ Cosmic Variance ~ Armchair Dissident ~ The Scientific Activist ~ Holocene Hominoid ~ The Teapot Atheist ~ Sorting Out Science ~ Small Time Television ~ All-Too-Common Dissent ~ Anthropo Logic ~ Darwin Correspondence Project ~ Julie Zickefoose ~ Fish Feet ~ Neurotopia ~ Trinifar ~ Evolving Thoughts ~ Dynamics of Cats…
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Posted by Greg Laden on July 22, 2008 The Dispersal of Darwin ~ Darwin Day Celebration ~ Framing Science ~ Quintessence of Dust ~ Not Exactly Rocket Science ~ Clatic Detritus ~ Stranger Fruit ~ Cocktail Party Physics ~ Developing Intelligence ~ Lacrimae Rerum ~ Zooillogix ~ Opisthokont ~ Listening to Clifford Geertz ~ Campus Atheists & Sec. Humanists ~ Early to Bed…
LOL Scientist: Georges Lemaitre
Posted by Greg Laden on July 18, 2008 with a little thingie over the ‘i’ … which I won’t attempt in Movabletype.
Good morning, here’s what you need to know today
Posted by Greg Laden on July 17, 2008 For all you Fox fans, I have some bad news. Your favorite TV station is going to start running ads for the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Check out the details here. There is an extended discussion developing here regarding the film Sizzle: A global warming comedy. Here in the twin cities, the TSA, FBI, SS,…
Darwin and Wallace 1858
Posted by Greg Laden on July 14, 2008 Darwin and Wallace, chillin’ Let’s talk about Darwin and Wallace’s joint presentation on Natural Selection in 1858. It is not usually the case that I write a blog post for a carnival. I usually just write for the blog, then now and then sit down and figure out which posts should go to with carnivals.…
Creationist Education Bill in Louisiana Receives Criticism
Posted by Greg Laden on July 12, 2008 From the NCSE: Senate Bill 733, signed by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal on June 25, continues to draw criticism from scientists and political observers across the political spectrum.
An Interview with Randy Olson, Maker of Sizzle
Posted by Greg Laden on July 10, 2008 Sizzle Randy Olson is a Harvard (’84) trained marine biologist with field experience on the Great Barrier Reef, in the Antarctic, the US Virgin Islands, and elsewhere. He even spent a little time with Jacques Cousteau. But an extensive career in marine biology was not to be. Randy started to change careers around 1990, with…
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Posted by Greg Laden on July 10, 2008 The Carnival of Education The Cheerful Oncologist The Corpus Callosum The Daily Transcript The Dispersal of Darwin The Education Wonks The Ethical Palaeontologist The Faithful Penguin The Flying Trilobite The Friends of Charles Darwin The Frontal Cortex The Greenbelt The Inoculated Mind The Intersection The Island of Doubt The Lay Scientist The Lippard The Loom…
Tangled Bank #109: LOL Evolution!
Posted by Greg Laden on July 9, 2008 Welcome to the One Hundred and Ninth Edition of The Tangled Bank, the Weblog Carnival of Evolutionary Biology. This is the LOL edition of the Tangled Bank…. Carnival business … The main page for The Tangled Bank is here. The previous edition of The Tangled Bank was here, at Wheatdogg, and the next edition of…
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Posted by Greg Laden on July 9, 2008 Stranger Fruit Suicyte Notes Surreal Georgia Survival Machine Synapostasy TalkOrigins Tangled Up in Blue Guy Terra Sigillata Tetrapod Zoology The Accidental Weblog The annotated budak The Ant Room The Arc The Beagle Project The Birdchaser
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Posted by Greg Laden on July 1, 2008 Creek Running North Crowded Head, Cozy Bed Curiosoty Killed the Cat Dancing Bunnies Darwin Building Darwin Correspondence Project Darwin Day Celebration Darwin today Dead Racists Society Decrepit Old Fool Deep Sea News Deltoid denialism blog DeSmogBlog Developing Intelligence Dickipedia digiphile Dinosaurnews
Happy Birthday Natural Selection. You had mondo relative fitness as an idea!
Posted by Greg Laden on July 1, 2008 Natural Selection was proposed jointly by Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin on this day 150 years ago. Darwin discovered the principle of Natural Selection, and worked it out, over several decades prior. Meanwhile A.R. Wallace also came up with Natural Selection as the mechanism for what he was seeing in the wild. Some time…
Darwin’s Bulldog
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2008 On this day in 1895, T. H. Huxley died at the age of 70. Huxley was known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” because of his defense of Darwin’s important work in evolution. He debated Samuel Wilberforce in 1860, and people have been debating creationists since. Huxley invented the term “agnostic” and described himself as one.
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Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2008 10,000 Birds Aardvarchaeology A Blog Around The Clock A Blog from Hell Abnormal Interests About Darwin A Cat Nap A Constrained Vision Aetiology Afarensis A Few Things Ill Considered All-Too-Common Dissent Almost Diamonds A Load of Bright Analyze Everything Ancora Imparo Angry Toxicologist An Inconvenient Truth ArchaeoBlog
Morning Sickness is an Adaptation, not a … Sickness
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2008 There is new information from an older idea (from about 2000) by Paul Sherman and colleagues. The idea underlying this research is simple: Symptoms of illnesses may be adaptive. Indeed, this may be true to the extent that we should not call certain things illnesses. Like “morning sickness.” Broadly speaking, there are two different kinds…
The Perfect Bird Family Tree…
Posted by Greg Laden on June 26, 2008 … is certainly still in the future. But we have seen a step in that direction in a new paper, coming out this week in Science. This research applies intensive and extensive genomic analysis to the avian phylogenetic tree. The results are interesting. This paper is summarized in a number of locations, most notably here…
Biology Never Was The Same: Mark Borrello
Posted by Greg Laden on June 21, 2008 Continuing with our discussion of the Evolution 2008 conference, I’d like to relate at least the essence, as I saw it, of an excellent talk by Mark Borrello. I’ve seen Mark speak at least three times including yesterday, and soon after his talk we continued on the topic in a conversation over lunch and beers,…
The Origin of Life on Earth: New Research
Posted by Greg Laden on June 13, 2008 A very Darwin-like god ponders what the nature of life will be like. From Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. The origin of life presents a number of fundamental difficulties to science. One of these is the seemingly irreducible complexity of life itself. For instance, DNA codes for the molecules that are essential to life.…
Expelled! Private Screening for Politicians. How nice.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 11, 2008 This just in: Perhaps he was inspired by the turnout for Young People Fucking, or maybe he misses all that media attention he got after taking credit for getting C-10 through the House with nary a peep over the controversial changes to the film tax rebate. Whatever the reason, Reverend Charles McVety is headed back…
Retraction: Clinton will stay in race after tonight.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 3, 2008 You may have noticed that in my previous post I tried to equivocate and I gave the story right from AP as a big quote. This is because I could not reconcile what I was reading internally. It did not make sense, and I suspected that the press was just trying to bring the campaign…
Atheist Talk Radio with Mark Decker!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on May 31, 2008 Minnesota Atheists’ “Atheists Talk” radio show Sunday, June 1, 2008, 9-10 a.m. Central Time The first half hour will feature an interview with Mark Decker, co-author of “More than Darwin.” Mark is a great guy, this should be a fun show. I’m out of radio range so I’ll have to listen to the podcast. But…
Can Darwin Make You Healthy?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 19, 2008 A talk by Mark Decker! May 20, 7 p.m. Bryant-Lake Bowl, Uptown $5-$10 (pay what you can) Darwin wrote about the competition between individuals that results in the survival of the fittest. But what about competitions within individuals, between the cells inside our bodies? In that struggle, cancer cells could be considered the most successful…
The Phalarope: Not just another polyandrous bird…
Posted by Greg Laden on May 17, 2008 MIT researchers found that phalaropes depend on a surface interaction known as contact angle hysteresis to propel drops of water containing prey upward to their throats. Photo by Robert Lewis The Phalarope starts out as an interesting bird because of its “reversed” sex-role mating behavior. For at least some species of Phalarope, females dominate males,…
A Celebration of Darwin’s Legacy Across Academic Disciplines
Posted by Greg Laden on May 14, 2008 The Hofstra University Library, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Hofstra Cultural Center present a conference: Darwin’s Reach examines the impact of Darwin and Darwinian evolution on science and society in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Robert Darwin and the sesquicentennial of the publication of Darwin’s On…
Astronomers Gone Wild! … What’s a Pope to do?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 14, 2008 Emperor Han Aidi Keep an eye on the hanging tree. There will be a fresh astronomer hanging there soon. Mark my words. This story is sometimes told: During the reign of a particular emperor in China, the role of the historian was becoming more significant. An historian sat in the Emperors throne room and recorded…
Jason Rosenhouse is a Creationist!
Posted by Greg Laden on May 8, 2008 You Can’t Hide …I landed a job in Kansas. Finally, a state with some horse sense! But even here the Darwinian octopus had insinuated its fetid tentacles, depriving the good and open-minded high school students of the state the right hear to both sides of the story. Even when they provided a forum for polite…
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