October 20, 2010
This is why we know civilization is about to collapse. This man speaks the truth, and he is probably the only one up there speaking the truth, but he is considered to be the comic relief.
October 19, 2010
Tom Bosley, the actor who played Howard Cunningham on "Happy Days" has died at age 83. Interestingly, Barbara Billingsley had died just three days before. There is no meaning to this, but there is metaphor galore.
October 19, 2010
I see god's fingerprints all over this fingerprint!!!!11!!
October 19, 2010
I like Wikipedia, I really do. But there are also some serious, very serious problems with it. I just read the entries on the Battle of Rorke's Drift, a few related historical entries, and the entry on the movie Zulu, which is about the Battle of Rorke's drift.
My interest here is in looking at how…
October 19, 2010
I wrote earlier of the very useful command line utility called gcalcli (short for GoogleCALendarCommandLineInterface). Click here to read that post. One of the options is called "agenda" which spits out, by default, the next five days of calendar entries. If you would prefer a different range of…
October 19, 2010
There is a stoning planned for the near future. Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of shying away from criticizing this barbaric practice to avoid offending anyone's sensibilities, there was instead a public outrage about it?
October 19, 2010
is a web carnival devoted to beetles, their biology and evolution. The current issue is at Beetles in the Bush. Go check it out!
October 18, 2010
A colleague at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Studies at Loma Linda has asked me to pass this on to you:
IMPORTANT SURVEY ON ATTITUDES TOWARD THE ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION - Your help is needed! The Loma Linda University Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Studies is…
October 18, 2010
As expected, the liars, I mean Republicans (and Blue Dog Dems) who opposed the recovery act still wanted the recover act. They only wanted to look like they opposed it while they took advantage of it.
Rep. Pete Sessions, the firebrand conservative from Dallas, Texas, has relentlessly assailed…
October 18, 2010
... for the truly ungodly time of 9:00 AM Central Time to listen to Air America's "The Voice of Minnesota" Atheist Talk Radio Show on KTNF AM 950.
Ira Flatow (photo)
aDNA (that's "art-DNA") artist and sciJournalist Lynn Fellman and I will have a conversation with Ira Flatow of Talk of the Nation'…
October 18, 2010
We have been watching the Atlantic but ignoring the rest of the tropical storm world, mainly because that (the Pacific storms) is not an area of interest or experience for me. But you should know about this:
The strongest cyclone in years to buffet the Philippines knocked out communications and…
October 17, 2010
A mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) killed a human (Homo sapiens) in Washington. The human hiker was gored in the leg on Klahhane Ridge in Olympic National Park. The goat, previously identified as an aggressive wild animal, was summarily executed by park rangers. Previously, rangers had tried…
October 17, 2010
This is astonishing. An organization called "Project Prevention" led by a person by the name of Barbara Harris is offering money, which she openly admits to be bribes, to UK addicts who will submit to sterilization.
This comes after some 3,500 Americans were previously paid to not have children…
October 17, 2010
The podcast of Desiree Schell's interviews with me (recorded) and Cordelia Fine (author of Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference) ... is now available here.
Check it out!
October 15, 2010
We speak with academic psychologist Dr. Cordelia Fine. Her new book, Delusions Of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, challenges the assumption that gender roles are wired into our brains, and shows us how ubiquitous cultural stereotypes are mistaken for actual fact.…
October 14, 2010
An oldie but a goodie:
October 13, 2010
This barrier:
October 13, 2010
This video shows how to dress for South Pole weather conditions during the winter (down to -100ºF). Filmed in the library of the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station during winter 2010.
hat tip: Elle
October 13, 2010
I dare you to tell me that this is not an argument for stricter control over access to firearms:
The identities of the two ninth-grade students found dead in a Lakeland park were released Wednesday, and authorities said they were both shot in what appears to be a case involving suicide.
...…
October 13, 2010
I was under the impression that "Reason" magazine was a libertarian neocon climate denialist rag. I could be wrong, but that's what I thought. I was also under the impression that JREF was pro-science and at this point had gotten beyond the whole "let's remain skeptical about global warming"…
October 13, 2010
This should come as a surprise to no one. Byron Williams, known as the "Highway Shooter" for his 12 minutres shootout with CHIPS officers earlier this year, described the connection between Glenn Beck and his activities to a John Hamilton of Media Matters.
... Williams details what he saw as an…
October 12, 2010
This Friday's Skeptically Speaking will feature ...
... academic psychologist Dr. Cordelia Fine. Her new book, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, challenges the assumption that gender roles are wired into our brains, and shows us how ubiquitous cultural…
October 12, 2010
Or, when the hunting season is closed, watch teh game (the guys), or when there are no sales, admire each other's shoes (the gals)?
This is, of course, a parody of the sociobiological, or in modern parlance, the "evolutionary psychology" argument linking behaviors that evolved in our species during…
October 12, 2010
Here is an article on the original study form Sociological Inquiry, which I've not read and about which I have no comment other than that it is cool if it annoyed Fox New.
