Do genes explain Republican extreme negative campaign tactics?
Star Trek's Data would call such behavior a product of a malfunctioning ethical subroutine.Posted on April 24, 2008 8:28 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Island of Doubt
An irregular exploration of the struggle between the power of rational discourse and the scientific method on one hand, and the forces of superstition and dogma on the other.
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James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
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- Amtrak: The 2008 election linchpin
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--- H. L. Mencken
By doubting we come to inquiry; and through inquiry we perceive truth.
--- Peter Abelard
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
-- Richard Dawkins
As for evolution, it happened. Deal with it.
-- Michael Shermer.
humor:
I am not a number! I am free man!
A little April Foolishness now. Please help me fill in the blanks. Correct entries must come from television or film....Posted on March 31, 2008 8:56 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Skeptic's Theme Song!
Bob Carroll of The Skeptic's Dictionary, has produced a theme song for skeptics. Well, OK. He stole the music from Leonard Cohen. "The Tower of Song" becomes "The Tower of Woo." Actually, I think he's drawing on Bob Dylan at...Posted on March 20, 2008 12:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Shatner in space?
Friday morning chuckle: The Science Channel asks William Shatner about scotched plans to get him into space:...Posted on February 8, 2008 7:45 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
RV reproduction
From the master of doom and gloom, James Howard Kunstler, comes this attempt to simultaneous amuse and depress:...Posted on December 21, 2007 8:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Monkey Planet!
Enjoy your Friday by paying an objective and science-based visit to the Monkey Planet....Posted on December 7, 2007 11:35 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Women presidents: the real story
Thanks for reading, but get a life.Posted on November 1, 2007 7:44 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Quote of the week
Perhaps it isn't fair to make fun of the social sciences, and I know behavioral ecology has its merits, but can you believe people get paid to study how men and women hook up? From New Scientist we learn that:...Posted on September 27, 2007 8:26 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wal-Mart scares the bejeebus out of 2-year-old
Wal-Mart scares me on the best of days, but not quite like this. Seems there was a two-year-old who "had a fit" when he came across a Wal-Mart Halloween display that came to life before his innocent little eyes:...Posted on September 21, 2007 8:46 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Tuesday amusement
GMO paranoia meets UFO conspiracies. Very clever....Posted on March 6, 2007 8:51 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Forty-two
42...Posted on October 31, 2006 7:32 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Stephen Hawking as super hero
Got three minutes? Then watch this vision of what would happen if Stephen Hawking was a super hero, championing science against the evil forces of "The Fundamentalist" and his Dogma-ray....Posted on October 25, 2006 6:48 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Capt. Kirk in Camelot
I see no reason why frivilous posts should be restricted to Fridays, especially when the item in question is as funny as the original Trek gang performing Monty Python's sendup of "Knights of the Round Table."...Posted on July 24, 2006 8:48 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
