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Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology
Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology. Comment policy: say what you want, but back it up with an email address. I don't like anonymous trolls.
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February 28, 2007
Moselio Schaechter, former American Society of Microbiology president, has a blog, Small Things Considered. It's pretty good. But the promo letter ASM sent around had one annoying thing.
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John Emerson on David Brooks' most recent expedition in ersatz sociology--this time a rant about the parenting habits of Brooklynites:
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February 27, 2007
Category: Bloggity Blog
Thanks to YouTube, bloggers regularly post video. Sites like Flickr allow the posting of pictures. But there's one thing that I haven't seen--or more accurately, heard.
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What happens when you take Science Blogs "basic concepts" and add it to Conservapedia, the information website for complete morons? You get more fun than a barrel of monkeys (which, of course, are not related to humans...). Here's what the Stupid People have to say about genes
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February 26, 2007
When I heard that Republican Senator and presidential candidate John McCain spoke at the Discovery Institute, I was disappointed but not surprised. In March, there's going to be a report released about antibiotic resistance in bacteria. A major finding of the report:
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A recent Gallup Poll about support for the Iraqi Occupation notes something very interesting: Jews are more likely to oppose the war, even after party affiliation is taken into account. Gallup states, "It is unclear why Jewish Americans show such strong opposition to the war." My answer?
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...the man who helped bring you Iran-Contra, you know you've gone too far. Seymour Hersh has a new article in the New Yorker about the Bush Administration's Middle East 'strategy.' It's more ridiculous than Iran-Contra.
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February 25, 2007
Category: Bloggity Blog
Here are some links for you; science first:
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Category: Tolerance
Here's an interesting little bit about intolerance by Karl Popper from The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Spell of Plato.
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What happens if you want to fight a war, and the generals threaten to not show up?
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