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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
September 28, 2008
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
Concerning Pulpit Freedom Sunday, the Chicago Tribune reports the following. "If we can tell you what to do in the bedroom, we can certainly tell you what to do in the voting booth," said the minister [Gus Booth], an evangelical...
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September 26, 2008
You know why They'll never let me be the face of science for Middle America?
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September 25, 2008
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
I would be remiss if I didn't join everyone else in appreciating the wonder that is the 25 September issue of Nature. This is what we miss for discussing their stories online! Anyone else think somebody in that august institution...
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To a scientist, having an open mind is a virtue. However, scientists still get upset when they find a story in a "science" magazine which crowbars open the reader's mind so far that you can hear the brains sloosh out...
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Category: A World Worth Fighting For
From a Reuters piece entitled "Democrats claim Wall St. bailout breakthrough" (24 September 2008, 11:16pm EDT). The speaker is Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), chairman of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. The issue of government controls on compensation for...
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September 24, 2008
Category: About this Blag
Right now, the ScienceBlog back channels are burning up with angry talk about ads like this "more cushion in the gym" athletic-shoe monstrosity currently infesting the sidebar and bleeding out over the blogs' own text. I guess everyone who visits...
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September 23, 2008
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
Q. What do you call the scholarly enterprise which involves asserting that the Iliad is a reliable historical chronicle, because archaeologists have indeed found bronze helmets dating to Mycenaean times; claiming that the Olympian mythology is compatible with science, because...
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I also think we're seeing the emergence of a science blogosphere somewhat analogous to the political blogosphere, which among other things can catch some of the mistakes of the "mainstream media". (Among other things — alas, including a bunch of...
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September 22, 2008
Category: Surveys
Open Access and the rush to pump everything through the Intertubes are changing everything (and stirring up trouble along the way). However, part of change is getting a new perspective on old things which survive, and sometimes, the search modality...
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September 19, 2008
Category: Open Access
Shenanigans are afoot on Capitol Hill: Big Publishing is trying to squash the NIH mandate for Open Access. Want to learn more? Well, just visit Science magazine. Jocelyn Kaiser has a piece entitled "House Weighs Proposal to Block Mandatory 'Open...
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