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August 31, 2006

So why do we care about the Vatican's position on science, anyway?

Category: KooksReligion

The Vatican has a chief exorcist. There is an International Association of Exorcists. They believe Hitler was possessed by a demon and tried a long-distance exorcism. Oh, and Harry Potter is evil. Adolf Hitler and Russian leader Stalin were possessed...

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Help Wal-Mart tread the path of righteousness

Category: Religion

Wal-Mart has a policy in place to protect its customers from the obscenity and wickedness that writers put into books, yet they still have a few books on the shelves that are terribly indecent—one must assume that their censors are...

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Tangled Bank #61

Category: CarnivalsScienceTangled Bank

The latest edition of the biweekly compendium of science blogging, the Tangled Bank, is now available for your reading enjoyment at Epigenetics News....

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Well, this cheered me up immensely

Category: Politics

Everyone is going to be linking to this: Keith Olbermann eviscerates the Bush administration as a gang of arrogant, incompetent wanna-be fascists. Exactly! Ending it on an Edward R. Murrow quote wasn't presumptuous at all, and was entirely appropriate. It's...

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The joys of home ownership

Category: Personal

It's 1:30AM, and our daughter wakes us up, pounding on the door. We hear a babbling brook, the cheerful sound of a waterfall—wait a moment, we don't live in a rain forest! We run to the basement to see...

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August 30, 2006

Update your blogrolls! Um, not.

Category: Creationism

John A. Davison has started a new blog. You may recall his previous blog, or the one before that. His technique is to post one article, invite comments, and when he gets tired of them, move on...not to a new...

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Truth in advertising

Category: HumorPolitics

When you see the sun over the ocean in California, I think it means the sun is setting. Maybe it was just subconscious honesty that the Lieberman campaign used a stock sunset photo to illustrate his status. He's Holy...

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I recommend this as an entrance exam for the priesthood

Category: ReligionStupidity

Maybe it would have been more sensible to start with the water-and-wine trick, and later work up to the walking-on-water finale. A priest has died after trying to demonstrate how Jesus walked on water. Evangelist preacher Franck Kabele, 35, told...

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Happy 16th Birthday, Skatje

Category: Personal

Look whose birthday it is today: Skatje! You can all go wish her a happy day, although we're not having too much of a celebration, since it is that hectic first week of school for both of us. Anyway, it...

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Ribbed for your partner's pleasure!

Category: ReligionWeirdness

Am I some kind of preeevert or something? Because when I see this turtle's plastron, which some say has an image of the Virgin Mary, I see something completely different. When did a featureless tube with a nipple-like bump...

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Generating right-left asymmetries

Category: DevelopmentEvolutionScience

We're only sorta bilaterally symmetric: superficially, our left and right halves are very similar, but dig down a little deeper, and all kinds of interesting differences appear. Our hearts are larger on the left than the right, our appendix...

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Maybe they could switch to depleted uranium

Category: Environment

Hunters should be allies of conservationists—in the best situations, hunting and wildlife groups have been great advocates of preserving habitat, which is the core issue, I think, in protecting biodiversity. If they're doing it so they can go in and...

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Talking about me behind my back, eh?

Category: Weblogs

Not that I'm going to complain: I got classified with Fafblog. It sounds like it was a very interesting panel, and I wish I could have been there…even if I hadn't been mentioned....

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The PIG-fest continues

Category: Creationism

The ongoing dissection of Wells' The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design continues, with two new disembowelments on display. Andrea Bottaro rips up Chapter 9, "The Secret of Life". In this one, Wells makes the tired old...

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Symmetry breaking and genetic assimilation

Category: DevelopmentEvolutionScience

How do evolutionary novelties arise? The conventional explanation is that the first step is the chance formation of a genetic mutation, which results in a new phenotype, which, if it is favored by selection, may be fixed in a...

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August 29, 2006

If you get this, you're a geek

Category: Humor

It's the second day of fall classes. I must be a little punch-drunk, what with all the obscure humor going up today, so forgive me....

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