Greg Laden is a biological anthropologist and science communicator. His research has covered North American prehistoric and historic archaeology and African archaeology and human ecology. He is an OpenSource and OpenAccess advocate. Greg's wife, Amanda, is a High School biology teacher, his daughter Julia is a world traveler and his son Huxley is 2.
The advise I'm about to give you is something I've figured out my own and seems to work, but I do not know why, if it is necessary, or if there is a better way to manage this problem. If you have a better recommendation, please add it to the comments!
Some web sites can't be safely closed. If you…
... they weren't scared, but the guy trying to rob them sure was.
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Wally was sitting at his computer when the man entered his home.
"He just stood there in that doorway, standing there with a shovel," said Wally. "I thought, 'what the hell is going on here?' I thought it was a joke!"
After…
Once you've killed the monkey, you need to carry it back to camp. Slit the tail, near the end, and poke the head through the slit, so the tail makes a handy strap.
Here's a detail:
And there weren't any!
No, only kidding...
NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission's discoveries of previously unknown objects include 20 comets, more than 33,000 asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter,…
Carnival of Evolution No. 32 is now at Denim and Tweed. Here.
At Ed Brayton's blog: American Teachers Often Ignore Evolution
I'll be doing another edition of Everything You Know is Sort Of Wrong on Skeptically Speaking on Friday. Details here.
How Homeopathy Works. And, is pronounced.
Michele Bachmann Hates Our Veterans.
Michele Bachmann has a plan to cut the budget and it starts with freezing funding to the VA for health care for veterans and cutting spending on disability payments to those injured during war.
The Anything Goes…
... if you live in the Red River or Minnesota River basins near anything that looks like water.
This morning, I heard a TV weather forecaster, speaking of the potential flooding in the Red River Valley in Minnesota/North Dakota. He said of this possibility, "Flooding is not a certainty." But he…
An Efe (Pygmy) man making poison arrows for use in killing monkeys.
Ituri Forest, Zaire. Photograph Copyrighted 1986 Greg Laden
The arrows are thin darts of wood, often made of palm. Large marantacae leaves serve as a bowl and as a ladle. The poison includes a large number of ingredients, and…
Do not visit web sites if your computer is running Windows. Recent reports indicate that your computer could be taken over by malicious forces.
Egypt vs. the Netizins.
Model predicts 'religiosity gene' will dominate society. OMG. Ooops, did I say that?
And finally, the Antikythera Mechanism…
As an ex-Catholic, I can appreciate a good movie involving Satin1 or his Minions. There are several reasons for this. For one thing, I get the jokes.2 Some of them are rather subtle and require an understanding of church dogma. Also, I can relate to the stranger side of the belief system from…
Creationism may seem like a joke to most atheists. After all, how could the univerese and everything in it be only 6000 years old, when the light from galaxies 10 billian light years away takes (you guessed it) 10 billion years to get here?That was the question I had initially asked when I heard…
These two things are only indirectly connected:
What this all means:
On Friday the 4th, Skeptically Speaking will have a pre-recorded interview with Sheril. On that same show, I'll do a pre-recored installment of "Everything...". You can go to the link and click on "ask a question", but do it…
Fife Wikileaks Hactivists Arrested in UK
Police have arrested five people over their alleged roles in an online campaign to support WikiLeaks.
Five males - aged 15, 16, 19, 20 and 26 - were arrested under the Computer Misuse Act in raids across the country at 7am this morning, with the suspects…
Suddenly and for the first time I saw Amanda as a little child wide eyed with both awe and fear, among other children some sitting on the floor, some in chairs, some standing behind desks, eyes trained on a TV monitor and their teacher as the sudden realization dawned that the Space Shuttle…
Researcher and blogger Ash Donaldson joins us for a pre-recorded discussion on the fascinating field of Human Factors Engineering. This multi-disciplinary science draws on anatomy, physiology, physics, psychology and communications research, as it tries to improve the ways that humans interact with…
Every year, at least once (for his birthday or for Christmas, depending) I give my father-in-law the same exact presents: A tape measure, a utility knife, and a pencil. This way, when we are working on something like sheet-rocking the kitchen, patching the bullet hole in the roof of the cabin, or…
Stardust, the NASA probe, has downloaded a snapshot of Tempel 1, a comet that the comet seeking craft will sidle up to on February 14th. Here is the picture:
On the night of encounter, the navigation camera will be used to acquire 72 high-resolution images of the comet's surface features.…
A huge scar formed on Jupiter in July of 2009. It's shown here near the "bottom" of the planet:
It could have been formed by a comet like body, or by an asteroid (a rocky body).
Data from three infrared telescopes enabled scientists to observe the warm atmospheric temperatures and unique…
There are human universals. There, I said it. Now give me about a half hour to explain why this is both correct and a Falsehood. But first, some background and definition.
Most simply defined, a human universal is a trait, behavior or cultural feature that we find in all human societies. Men are…
