August 30, 2010
Ray M. Davis, Jr., of Alachua also admits that his religious beliefs tell him that creationism is true, but despite this admission he still feels that his local school board should ruin science education for all the children in his local public school by ramming their non scientific beliefs down…
August 29, 2010
The statement is not a lot different than before, and it is still one I agree with:
... CFI is committed to the position that reason and science, not faith, are needed to address and resolve humanity's problems. All religions share a fundamental flaw: they reflect a mistaken understanding of…
August 29, 2010
Creationists have often argued that they did not come from apes, a view usually ridiculed by the scientific community. Recent evidence, however, suggests that they may have actually been right. Scientists think that at the dawn of mankind, when the rest of the human race was busy evolving and…
August 29, 2010
The National Secular Society of Britain has weighed in on the problem of bringing Welsh students to the Noah's Ark Zoo Farm where they can learn about how Jesus rode a Dinosaur.
Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in Wraxall, near Bristol, is regularly used by Welsh schools for trips and its website boasts…
August 29, 2010
I'm skeptical that it is possible to make fried beer. I find it hard to believe that one can be human and not be a hypocrite at least some times. I'm skeptical that atheist doctors will actually conspire to kill you sooner than other doctors. I'm skeptical that science experiments always work.
August 29, 2010
I know a lot of you are interested in the Yellowstone Caldera. WEll, a recent article has come out on the topic in Geophysical Research Letters. Chris Rowan has summarized, reviewed, and analyzed the paper here.
The way the CDC talks about flu mortality has changed. This is interesting,…
August 29, 2010
Skeptically Speaking's Podcase show Karl Mamer is now a podcast, here.
(Includes Josh Witten on irrational beliefs and evolutionary theory.)
August 29, 2010
Earl may threaten the US Virgin Islands and Pueto Rico with hurricane force winds. These areas will be affected by tropical storm force winds. Antigua, Barbuda, Monserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla, Saint Martin and Satin Barthelemy, St. Marten, Saba and St. Eustatius are under hurricane…
August 29, 2010
Five years ago, on August 29th, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the coast of Louisiana with sustained winds of 125 mph. In what Republicans at the time claimed to be an utterly unrelated event, New Orleans was devastated by a flood around the same time. Apparently, New Orleans remains pretty much…
August 29, 2010
ultimate showdown
Who would name their cats emacs and vi?
It would be really cool to have two cats and name them sed and awk.
August 28, 2010
Then I saw this:
Courtesy oif Dynamics of Cats:
If you have any questions about this, don't ask me, as him.
August 27, 2010
Wanted; A storage container for data media (cd's, dvd's, SD cards, etc.) that is not made of materials that seem to be even more delicate, subject to weathering, and flamable than the data medium itself.
See the whole "WANTED" list here.
August 27, 2010
With each new drop of information spilled by the media, the case seems clearer that Hauser made up data. As Nicholas Wade reports, this would potentially be "the unforgivable sin."
"Given the published design of the experiment, my conclusion is that the control condition was fabricated," said…
August 27, 2010
A recent paper provides the groundwork to establish a way for exercise to diminish appetite. Or, more likely, for sedentary behavior to increase appetite.
It is well known that exercise burns calories. Personally, I think that's overrated: Strength building raises your metabolic demand, and THAT…
August 27, 2010
The Center for Inquiry in Amherst NY has come out against the mosque. I've been pretty much avoiding this topic (not for any particularly good reason) other than to note the gagging teabaggers beating up on non-pink people that they assume are Kaaaaiiiiliiii terrorists or something.
But DuWayne…
August 27, 2010
The question is being asked, Will Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Widen Health Inequalities? in a Policy Forum essay in the OpenAccess Journal PLoS Medicine.
Here is the executive summary from the article:
The primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is dependent on the effective…
August 27, 2010
I just thought I'd pass on this letter from Rush Holt to Nancy Pelozi and Steny Hoyer:
Dear Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer:
In light of the troubling ruling this week that blocks federal funding for stem cell research, I am writing to request respectfully that you bring the bipartisan…
August 27, 2010
Here's a pretty picture from the Atlantic:
That, dear reader, is what an active hurricane season looks like.
The stuff you see on the left, near Louisiana and across Florida to the Atlantic, is is just crappy weather.
Near the middle of the picture, you can see a very nicely formed hurricane,…
August 27, 2010
Check out the Furious Purpose blog, written by a long time denizen of the Internet, yet newish blogger, written by ...
...an overworked emergency room doctor, a father and citizen, and I blog infrequently about stuff that interests me.This might include things like Health, Politics, Religion, and…
August 26, 2010
Hey, if the media gets this, what do you think will happen?
The YouTube video comes with this text:
A man walks through the crowd at the Ground Zero protest and is mistaken as a Muslim. The crowd turns on him and confronts him. The man in the blue hard hat calls him a coward and tries to fight…
August 26, 2010
Jim Emery's series is complete, and you should look through it. I find it interesting that he speaks about the "Macaca moment" and all that entails, given the current situation in the Minnesota Governor's race.
Jim's posts describe what it was like to be in the communications division of a major…
August 26, 2010
I've become very interested in Minnesota history, and by interested I mean annoyed in many cases. The first thing white Minnesotans did was to exploit the Indians. The second thing they did was to throw the Indians out, move them to reservations, kill them, and otherwise treat them very poorly.…
August 25, 2010
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August 25, 2010
In addition to a serious neck wound, Ahmed H. Sharif suffered cuts to forearms, face and one hand while trying to fend off Enright, prosecutor James Zeleta said while arguing against bail.
Enright had asked Mr. Sharif if he was a Muslim, and when he responded in the affirmative, Enright yelled some…
August 25, 2010
Earl, previously known as tropical depression 07, is now Tropical Storm Earl, and is cranking up through this 'middle school' phase of the cyclone life cycle so quickly that by the time you read this Earl might be a hurricane. Or in his case, a himicane.
This is the fifth tropical storm of the…
August 25, 2010
As I predicted earlier today, various journalists are taking up the theme that "Darwin was wrong" because he did not predict that niches into which organisms evolved would be a major controlling feature in the overall pattern of evolution.
But of course, he did, and the new research being referred…
August 25, 2010
In which an actual living person, instead of just the ashes of TV actors, will be launched into space.
Here's a picture of the rocket and it's friend, the submarine:
Our mission is very simple. We are working towards launching a human being into space.
This is a non-profit suborbital space…
