Here's My Two-Dimensional Barcode
Category: WhatEVAH!
So I found this real cool two-dimensional barcode generator....
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Mike the Mad Biologist
Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology
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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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- Creationism and Molecular Evolution
- The Silly Distinction Between CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA
- Clinton Is in Real Trouble with the Democratic Base
- Caitlin Flanagan Is "Thoughtful"?
- Poll About GINA
- GINA and the Human Microbiome Project
- New Media and New Narratives for Science Reporting
- Darksyde on Ben Stein and Reducto ad Hitlerum
- Their Past or Our Future: Anti-Vax and Creationism
- "Grope Patrol Effective"
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- clear as mud on Creationism and Molecular Evolution
- Interrobang on Creationism and Molecular Evolution
- Michael Schmidt on Creationism and Molecular Evolution
- TomS on Creationism and Molecular Evolution
- Karrie-Ann Toews on The Silly Distinction Between CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA
- microbiologychick on The Silly Distinction Between CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA
- thebaltrus on The Silly Distinction Between CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA
- Joel on Clinton Is in Real Trouble with the Democratic Base
- PalMD on The Silly Distinction Between CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA
- MRW on Clinton Is in Real Trouble with the Democratic Base
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- ... ponderings of a fool
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March 31, 2008
'Framers of Evolution' or 'Meta-Trolls'?
Most of the biologists around here do a lot more than just our specific research. We're overcommitted. So stop 'meta-trolling' and step up.
Posted by Mike at 11:13 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2008
Artificial Versus Natural Selection: The PZ Myers Edition
Darwin's contribution was that nature can select just like people do.
Posted by Mike at 11:13 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 29, 2008
Happy Blogoversary to...
Category: Bloggity Blog
Posted by Mike at 5:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Weakling Dollar: Expected but Embarrassing
Category: Economics
In the land of the euro, the dollar is treated like a banana republic(an) currency.
Posted by Mike at 10:57 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2008
SEA to Train Scientists to Run for Political Office
Category: Education
Trying to get more scientists involved in politics.
Posted by Mike at 4:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bartlett Is Half Right About Those Refund Checks
Send the refund to local and state governments.
Posted by Mike at 10:36 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2008
Valuable Microbiological Archive Destroyed
Scientists, including the Mad Biologist, want to know why the VA destroyed a valuable and irreplaceable microbiological facility.
Posted by Mike at 5:19 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I See Stupid People: The Vox Day Edition
Vox Day is a moron who doesn't understand how biologists use evolution to fight disease--and why that is a moral thing to do. And, in other news, dog bites man.
Posted by Mike at 10:58 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2008
Social Security Is Still DOOMED a Samuelson Unit from Now
As has been the case every year since 1993, the Social Security Trust Fund is projected to go bust in 30-38 years from now. And disability insurance is the poor, middle-aged man's pension.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2008
Another Fight About Framing and Evolution: Can I Play?
What we rarely do is make an affirmative, positive argument for evolution.
Posted by Mike at 4:34 PM • 57 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fun Night at Boston Skeptics
Category: Bloggity Blog
Thank you to all the people who turned out last night for the Boston Skeptics meeting.
Posted by Mike at 11:38 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
CNN's Candy Crowley: Clueless About Democrats
What's more stupid: not realizing why Democrats wouldn't trust the political press corps, or thinking you're seeing the 'real' John McCain?
Posted by Mike at 11:10 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2008
Why Are You Reading Blogs...
Category: Bloggity Blog
because, if you're in Boston, you should be heading to the Boston Skeptics meeting.
Posted by Mike at 5:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If Intelligent Design Creationists Had the Goods...
Category: Creationism
then they wouldn't have to keep secrets.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 23, 2008
Boston Skeptics: I'm Speaking Tomorrow
Category: Bloggity Blog
I'm speaking at the Boston Skeptics meeting about how we should defend evolution and attack creationism.
Posted by Mike at 7:04 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sunday Sermon: Purim, God, and Free Will
Divinity isn't a guy with a beard, it is us.
Posted by Mike at 1:31 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Huffington Post Meets Science?
Should there be a science section at the Huffington Post? Sure, why not? Oh yeah, Deepak Chopra...
Posted by Mike at 10:31 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 22, 2008
Giant Antarctic Invertebrate Critters!
Jellyfish, starifish, and crinoids, oh my!
Posted by Mike at 4:14 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What Are Universities Spending Their Money On?
What are the areas where costs have skyrocketed for universities?
Posted by Mike at 10:42 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2008
The Other Threat to Evolutionary Biology: Evolutionary Psychology
Is the equating of evolutionary biology with evolutionary psychology something we want?
Posted by Mike at 10:48 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2008
Egnor: Don't Know Much about Antibiotic Resistance
Evolutionary biology IS used to combat antibiotic resistance.
Posted by Mike at 10:59 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 19, 2008
Dear Intelligent Designer, Another Round of Amy Sullivan
Why is she looking validation of her religious beliefs from political figures?
Posted by Mike at 4:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Egnor and the Creationists: Partying Like It's 1859
Natural selection isn't a big deal--anymore. Neither is heliocentrism.
Posted by Mike at 10:59 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2008
The Intellectual Cowardice of Michael Egnor
Trolling, masquerading as intellectual discussion
Posted by Mike at 11:06 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 17, 2008
Happy Evacuation Day!
Category: Boston
And a Beannachtai na Feile Padraig too!
Posted by Mike at 4:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Morality, Utility, and Defending Evolution
The utility argument puts creationists on the defensive by forcing them to justify why they want to harm our ability to cure disease.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2008
The Failures of the Traditional Media in Iraq
Category: Iraq
Let me count the ways.
Posted by Mike at 5:34 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Press Has Always Been Sycophantic...
at least some of the time. Rewind to Guatemala, 1954.
Posted by Mike at 10:46 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 15, 2008
New Boston Skeptics Talk Title: "In Defense of Religion"
KIDDING.
Posted by Mike at 4:58 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dems Play FISA Right (Again?!)
I don't know if this is the end game, but it certainly is the long game. Well played, Harry.
Posted by Mike at 10:24 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 14, 2008
The Best Musicians EVAH!: The Really Terrible Orchestra
It's brilliant.
Posted by Mike at 4:10 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another Way to Break the NIH Pipeline: Shift More Money to SBIR/STTR Programs
Throwing more money at businesses that don't want it.
Posted by Mike at 10:59 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 13, 2008
Obama, Clinton, and the Perils of Self-Projection
Why are so many Democrats projecting their fantasies onto two candidates whose feet are definitely made of clay?
Posted by Mike at 5:02 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Twenty-Five Percent of Teenage Girls Have One or More STDs
Teaching kids about condoms might be a good idea.
Posted by Mike at 10:56 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2008
Punishing Bush Dog Democrats for FISA Capitulation
Make Democrats who refused to stand firm on civil liberties pay the price.
Posted by Mike at 4:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bacterial Clonal Spread and CTX-M-15 Beta-Lactamases
This is like a Reese's peanut butter cup, but evil.
Posted by Mike at 10:51 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 11, 2008
Priorities: Guns or Biomedical Science?
Category: Funding
Defense spending increases faster than inflation, while biomedical science has the pie grow smaller.
Posted by Mike at 5:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Barcoding in Biology: A Tale of Two Meanings
Barcoding has two very different meanings, even though both techniques are used in genomics--and often, at the same time.
Posted by Mike at 10:35 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 10, 2008
The War on Pizza
Category: Pizza!
First, beer, now pizza? Some thoughts about rising food prices.
Posted by Mike at 4:57 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I See Stupid People: Artificial Selection, Natural Selection, and Egnor
ScienceBlogling Mike Dunford reminds us that Michael Egnor's creationist stupidity, like Camus' plague, never disappears, but only wanes. Egnor has unleashed his formidable stupidity on the concepts of artificial and natural selection.
Posted by Mike at 10:58 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 9, 2008
Physicist Foster Wins Congressional Election!
And in nine months, he has to run again. Less debates about science, more support. Time to put up or shut up.
Posted by Mike at 5:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This Is One Charter School Experiment That I Hope Suceeds
Paying teachers what they're worth.
Posted by Mike at 10:47 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 8, 2008
Yet Another Way States and Municipalities Are Getting Hammered on Bonds
Your tax dollars: straight from your pocket to Wall Street.
Posted by Mike at 4:59 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When a Creationist Rear-Ends Someone's Car...
...it ultimately leads the Mad Biologist to a very irreverent, but accurate, description of the scientific method.
Posted by Mike at 10:29 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 7, 2008
Forget the Oil! What About the Hopps?
And whom do we invade?
Posted by Mike at 4:27 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Creationist Jonathan Wells Moves Goalposts Up Own Ass
Wells' stupidity is a tacit admission of defeat for intelligent design creationism.
Posted by Mike at 10:46 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 6, 2008
Three New Deals: The Book Jonah Goldberg Would Have Written...
if he weren't a f-cking moron.
Posted by Mike at 4:29 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Boston Skeptics: I'm the First Speaker
Category: Education
If you were at a meeting of Boston Skeptics, and had to listen to me rant for around forty minutes (give or take), what would you want to hear me rant about?
Posted by Mike at 11:01 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 5, 2008
More About That Rule of Law Thingee
'Minimalist' conservative and Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts apparently believes that one's obligation to pay monetary damages after damaging the environment should be, well, minimal.
Posted by Mike at 4:35 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Voting: Still a Problem in Ohio
Voting in Ohioan Democratic strongholds is still screwed up.
Posted by Mike at 1:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Clonal Spread, Antibiotic Resistance, and UTIs
Trying to treat the resistance problem, such as a drug resistant UTI-causing E. coli will not work in isolation. We have to expand the scale on which we envision the problem beyond the hospital door.
Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 4, 2008
To Subsidize Corporate Bond Issues, Less Money for Education
Private, unaccountable ratings agencies alter the price governments pay to borrow money. If you're wondering why I bring this up, this is the context in which funding of science education happens.
Posted by Mike at 4:53 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Successful Blogging: Don't Appeal to Readers, but...
Category: Bloggity Blog
...other, larger bloggers. At least, that's what my site statistics tell me.
Posted by Mike at 10:58 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 3, 2008
NEJM Blasts Bush's Stand on S-CHIP
S-CHIP, another successful Republican policy: ideology trumps economics, they screw over people who aren't their political base, hurt thousands of children, violate federal law, and act by fiat.
Posted by Mike at 11:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 2, 2008
Framing Corporate, Not Private, Health Insurance
Why is private healthcare not called what it really is: corporate healthcare?
Posted by Mike at 5:11 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
(A Short) Book Review: The Bloody Shirt
Why Stephen Budiansky's book about terrorism in the post-Civil War South matters today.
Posted by Mike at 11:23 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 1, 2008
Compulsive Centrist Disorder and the Art of Saying Nothing
Category: Compulsive Centrist Disorder
Are the "changes needed in this country...straightforward enough"? Really? Has Bloomberg ever listened to Democrats and Republicans, or conservatives and liberals?
Posted by Mike at 11:27 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks