Here's My Two-Dimensional Barcode
Category: WhatEVAH!
So I found this real cool two-dimensional barcode generator....
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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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March 31, 2008
Category: WhatEVAH!
So I found this real cool two-dimensional barcode generator....
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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.
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March 30, 2008
Darwin's contribution was that nature can select just like people do.
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March 29, 2008
Category: Bloggity Blog
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Category: Economics
In the land of the euro, the dollar is treated like a banana republic(an) currency.
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March 28, 2008
Category: Education
Trying to get more scientists involved in politics.
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Send the refund to local and state governments.
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March 27, 2008
Scientists, including the Mad Biologist, want to know why the VA destroyed a valuable and irreplaceable microbiological facility.
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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.
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March 26, 2008
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.
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March 25, 2008
What we rarely do is make an affirmative, positive argument for evolution.
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Category: Bloggity Blog
Thank you to all the people who turned out last night for the Boston Skeptics meeting.
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What's more stupid: not realizing why Democrats wouldn't trust the political press corps, or thinking you're seeing the 'real' John McCain?
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March 24, 2008
Category: Bloggity Blog
because, if you're in Boston, you should be heading to the Boston Skeptics meeting.
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Category: Creationism
then they wouldn't have to keep secrets.
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March 23, 2008
Category: Bloggity Blog
I'm speaking at the Boston Skeptics meeting about how we should defend evolution and attack creationism.
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Divinity isn't a guy with a beard, it is us.
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Should there be a science section at the Huffington Post? Sure, why not? Oh yeah, Deepak Chopra...
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March 22, 2008
Jellyfish, starifish, and crinoids, oh my!
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What are the areas where costs have skyrocketed for universities?
Posted by Mike at 10:42 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2008
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
Evolutionary biology IS used to combat antibiotic resistance.
Posted by Mike at 10:59 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 19, 2008
Why is she looking validation of her religious beliefs from political figures?
Posted by Mike at 4:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Natural selection isn't a big deal--anymore. Neither is heliocentrism.
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March 18, 2008
Trolling, masquerading as intellectual discussion
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March 17, 2008
Category: Boston
And a Beannachtai na Feile Padraig too!
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The utility argument puts creationists on the defensive by forcing them to justify why they want to harm our ability to cure disease.
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March 16, 2008
Category: Iraq
Let me count the ways.
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at least some of the time. Rewind to Guatemala, 1954.
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March 15, 2008
KIDDING.
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I don't know if this is the end game, but it certainly is the long game. Well played, Harry.
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March 14, 2008
It's brilliant.
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Throwing more money at businesses that don't want it.
Posted by Mike at 10:59 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 13, 2008
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
Teaching kids about condoms might be a good idea.
Posted by Mike at 10:56 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2008
Make Democrats who refused to stand firm on civil liberties pay the price.
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This is like a Reese's peanut butter cup, but evil.
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March 11, 2008
Category: Funding
Defense spending increases faster than inflation, while biomedical science has the pie grow smaller.
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Barcoding has two very different meanings, even though both techniques are used in genomics--and often, at the same time.
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March 10, 2008
Category: Pizza!
First, beer, now pizza? Some thoughts about rising food prices.
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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.
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March 9, 2008
And in nine months, he has to run again. Less debates about science, more support. Time to put up or shut up.
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Paying teachers what they're worth.
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March 8, 2008
Your tax dollars: straight from your pocket to Wall Street.
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...it ultimately leads the Mad Biologist to a very irreverent, but accurate, description of the scientific method.
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March 7, 2008
And whom do we invade?
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Wells' stupidity is a tacit admission of defeat for intelligent design creationism.
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March 6, 2008
if he weren't a f-cking moron.
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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?
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March 5, 2008
'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.
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Voting in Ohioan Democratic strongholds is still screwed up.
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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.
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March 4, 2008
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.
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Category: Bloggity Blog
...other, larger bloggers. At least, that's what my site statistics tell me.
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March 3, 2008
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.
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March 2, 2008
Why is private healthcare not called what it really is: corporate healthcare?
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Why Stephen Budiansky's book about terrorism in the post-Civil War South matters today.
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March 1, 2008
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?
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