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July 31, 2010

Blogging for the SSA

Category: Weblogs

Jen McCreight is participating in that masochistic exercise in prolonged blogging called Blogathon, all to raise money for charity. Take a look, donate if you can, at least give her a little sympathy....

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“Implicit consent”—women can be stripped if they're dancing at a bar

Category: Feminism

This is an appalling story. Those "Girls Gone Wild" videos are already about the sleaziest things you'll find advertised on mainstream TV: they are basically made by getting young women drunk to reduce their inhibitions and than urging them to...

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Egregious comma abuse

Category: Cephalopods

We're about to leave lovely Vancouver to return to Kent, Washington, so must leave you with something awful to chew on for a while. This is is a beautiful example of why creationists can be so stupid: spelling and grammar...

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July 30, 2010

Could Virginia Heffernan possibly be more wrong?

Category: Media

That would be tough. She's written a diatribe in the NY Times on the Pepsico debacle, and it isn't just that she doesn't like many of the scienceblogs (including yours truly), but that she gets the facts wrong. This...

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Episode LXXXV: Love among the cephalopods

Category: Open Thread

O Happy Day, let us open this edition of the thread insufferably prolonged with some romance! (Current totals: 10,731 entries with 1,072,626 comments.)...

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I know about the evil ads

Category: Administrative

We are currently suffering from a surfeit of cheesiness in the ad blocks being served up — the example to the right is just one of many horrors, including ads for $cientology, various Christian and creationist groups, and even...

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Hovind runs a poll

Category: Pointless polls

How can I resist? Eric Hovind does the usual trick of putting two reasonable answers on it to split the rational vote, but I think a good goal would be to simply make both of them crush the stupid creationist...

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Excellent interview with Craig Venter

Category: Science

Spiegel has a wonderful interview with Venter. The more I hear from Venter, the more I like him; he's very much a no-BS sort of fellow. He's the guy who really drove the human genome project to completion, and he's...

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Catholic taxonomy

Category: Religion

The peculiarities of dietary restrictions by the religious are always entertaining. Catholics have their own weird practices: here's a bit of strange information from a Catholic agony aunt forum. Do alligators count as fish? As a Catholic who observes the...

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Minnesota Public Radio Q&A about mosquitoes

Category: Environment

MPR picked my brains about the impossible plan to eradicate mosquitoes. No, we can't, and no, we shouldn't. That wasn't so hard....

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