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It’s easy to rattle off the names of great liberals: Jesus, Buddha, Copernicus, DaVinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, Voltaire, Locke, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams, Darwin, Dickens, Hugo, Melville, Lincoln, Twain, Picasso, Einstein, Darrow, Gandhi and Martin Luther King. And great conservatives? Hmmm. Cotton Mather and Ronald Reagan is about it I guess.

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April 30, 2006

A brief overview of Hox genes

Category: DevelopmentEvolutionGeneticsMolecular BiologyScience

In previous articles about fly development, I'd gone from the maternal gradient to genes that are expressed in alternating stripes (pair-rule genes), and mentioned some genes (the segment polarity genes) that are expressed in every segment. The end result...

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Secular horror?

Category: Godlessness

Remember Melinda Barton and that awful piece on the Raw Story? It was taken down, and now it's back up with a few changes, I think. The editors asked me to submit a rebuttal. It's online at the Raw...

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This god must be one evil mofo

Category: Godlessness

This is not funny. Five children between 9 and 16 years old died and several others suffered burns when lightning struck a white-painted metal cross set on a hill in the town of Santa Maria del Rio early on Sunday,...

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I am not here

Category: CreationismPersonal

Hurtling1 down the road in my black Chevy2, I laugh maniacally3. "Time to kick creationist butt4," I say, "and test the mettle of the Cheeseheads.5" I'm heading off to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point to minister to the...

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April 29, 2006

There's something wrong here

Category: Weirdness

Grrlscientist is pushing another of those online quiz thingies—What's Your Theme Song?—and it was quick and easy, so I took it. Now I'm horribly scarred. Especially compared to my fellow science bloggers, I got a result that disturbs me deeply....

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Kent Hovind at St Cloud State University

Category: Creationism

After sitting through Hovind's talk, I have seen the light. I've always been awfully hard on Christianity and Christians here, despising their beliefs and making mock of their nonsensical ideas and backwards social agenda. But this evangelist really reached out...

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April 28, 2006

Friday Random Ten: Bored silly in the Cities

Category: Weblogs

My schedule is knocked all to heck today—there was some mess of an accident on I94 that cost me an extra hour and a half coming into the cities, and the cops in the U district sent me wondering all...

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Department of not getting it

Category: Creationism

Be amused. The malevolent clown at Billy Dembski's blog has joined the blithering clown at Telic Thoughts in calling for my head, because I've admitted that I will vote on matters of substance and scientific validity in tenure decisions....

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When Matzke met Snow...

Category: Creationism

There's no doubt that Tony Snow is a creationist, especially not after Nick Matzke's interview....

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Friday Cephalopod: Sepioteuthis lessoniana

Category: Organisms

This week's Friday Cephalopod is reader submitted. Sepioteuthis lessoniana And there's more at Andre Seale's gallery!...

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Travelin' man

Category: CreationismLocalPersonalWeblogs

My life isn't easing up just yet as we wend our way to the imminent end of the term. I'm going to be flitting about over the next few days. I'm chauffeuring #1 son to a job interview in Minneapolis...

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Red devils?

Category: Organisms

The Squid blog links to a wonderful National Geographic video of the Humboldt squid. Watch them attack divers! I cheered! Alas, the squid's efforts to taste monkey meat were frustrated, and the noble beasts have not learned to love the...

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April 27, 2006

Comic appreciation

Category: Humor

A reader brought Crap I Drew on My Lunch Break to my attention—I like it. The artist understands us godless people and our love of puppy dog dinners and satanic rituals, and she doesn't seem fond of Intelligent Design...

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An easy quiz

Category: Politics

One of these people is a babbling butthead. Tony Snow: "Racism isn't that big a deal any more." Ampersand: "The effect of a crime like this—and the subsequent not guilty verdict—is to remind all blacks that a substantial number...

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Cooking with agnatha

Category: Weirdness

One moment I'm posting about jawless fish, the next I'm sent a link to the bravest, craziest young people to infest a marine station. Yes, the two stories are connected....

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9 out of 10 biologists agree!

Category: Humor

Chemistry stinks. (via Uncertain Principles)...

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