Science After Sunclipse

Social and Administrative Notes

Tomorrow evening I will be attending Boston's First Night festivities, which involve things like illuminated ice sculptures and whatnot outside and various artistic performances indoors. Joshua successfully inveigled me into attending a theatrical performance in the Orpheum, on the rationale...

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Ooh, Shiny

How about a blog carnival devoted to the union of evolution and medicine? Coming from the perspective of an individual who conducts medical research in evolutionary genetics, I have found that very few people outside of the world I work...

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Holiday Fluff: Judging Books by Hacked Covers

I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. Vladimir Nabokov The other day after brunch, my friend Rebecca Watson said to me, "Skepchick is still getting nine hundred hits...

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Fuller's Plan for Financial Gain

Category: Pseudoscience

Steve Fuller, pontificator on matters sociological, has joined the crew of the antiscience blog Uncommon Descent. I think I can already see a few steps in his plan: 1. Insist on calling modern biology "Darwinism", despite perennially repeated explanations that...

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Carnival of the Elitist Bastards IIX

The eighth Carnival of the Elitist Bastards, and the last of 2008 CE, is ontube at Submitted to a Candid World. ("2008 CE"? Yes, I do go out of my way to find ways to make my writing irritate the...

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Post-Christmas Thoughts on Science Communication

On the evening of the twenty-fifth, my family and I were watching the DVD I'd given my mother for Christmas, All The President's Men (1976). This was, she told me, the movie which got everybody to go to journalism school;...

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Audiobook Announcement: The Authoritarians

I have been informed that Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians (2007) is now available in audiobook format from Cherry Hill Publishing. Cherry Hill is now selling an eight-CD recording of the book read by the author, with a foreword by John...

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Basement Cat Is Genuinely Perplexed

Category: Wobosphere Silliness

This is what happens when a cat discovers the existence of people who wholeheartedly reject the very idea of allegory....

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A Year of Regrets

Category: Cooking

Craig Silverman runs Regret the Error, a website dedicated to collecting media flubs and glitches. Recently, he put ontube a retrospective of the year's most memorable errors and corrections. Remember when the AP called Joe Liberman (I-CT) "the Democratic vice...

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Two Lessons in Arithmetic

Category: Bad Math

I don't know where we found examples of amusing and/or horrifying mistakes before the Internet....

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