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.
I had never felt airsick before, or since. But now I was a nauseated rag doll flopping around in the middle row of a six seater prop plane and I was ready to hurl at any moment.
Saturday is Reposted Essay Day!
BBC depiction of the path of Flight 447. I find it astonishing that the most…
A handful of posts that made people mad at me, or each other:
Slaughter a Cow Every 28 Days: How the Bible Ruined Western Society
Mail Order Brides and Hypergyny
Mail Order Russian Brides, Woovending, Shell Oil and Silence
The Natural Basis for Inequality of the Sexes
The Plant Blogging Carnival Berry Go Round is up and running at Agricultural BiodiversityWeblog.
The Carnival of Evolutoin # 25 is at Culturing Science.
This is a guest post by professional photographer Scott Rowed, describing his experience in switching from Windows to Linux.
Does Linux have the tools for a professional photographer?
A few months ago I would have answered "no". After switching primarily to Linux I gradually migrated my…
Unlikely to come to a theater near you, this obscure foreign film would make you laugh, cry, and wonder about what is really possible:
Hat tip: Java Joe
According to a Social Analysis who has studied the issue. Gillard is the new Prime Minister of Oz.
In a Canberra Times report, David Chalke said: "No more than they are fussed about her not being married and living with a hairdresser. That's the way the world is."
"In fact, Julia Gillard is more…
The Blog Pick of the Month is a monthly award given for the best (well, they don't actually say best, but I'll assume) blog post covering a story from PLoS ONE and aggregated in ResearchBlogging.org. (There are several such posts each month.)
This is considered one of the most prestigious awards…
Wasps, hornets, and other Hymenoptera may live nearly solitary lives, live in huge colonies, or something in between. The European hornet, Vespa crabro, lives in a colony consisting of one queen mated to a single male. In Hymenoptera, females are typically diploid (having genes from both parents…
The Wetterling Abduction (1989) is a relatively well known case of an unsolved child abduction. Patty Wetterling went from bereaved mother of abductee Jacob Wetterling (11 years old) to child saety advocate to Congressional canddiate. Had Patty Wetterling won her race for Congress, she'd be there…
June is almost over, and with nary a comment from this blog on rape. But June is the month we normally discuss this important problem. So to comply with that idea, I'm going to point you to a couple of posts from last year. If you've not read them, please have a look. Especially read the…
If you've been following along, you'll want to visit this comment on The Buddha Is Not Serious blog.
My response: Thank you William, I appreciate what you've said, accept it at face value, and encourage you to reconsider your statement that you will never blog again.
Hey, Quiche Moraine is…
And by faithing it, I mean using faith rather than critical analysis of the available information to make important decisions about what to regard as valid.
Let's do a couple of informal experiments to explore this issue more closely. For the present discussion, I'm assuming that you are a non-…
Coleman Steps Aside: Franken is Senator
Let us not forget, Coleman was an absolute jerk during the whole process. And,he was a sucky senator. Subsequent to Franken's establishment in office, he has proven himself equal to the best. Indeed, his lack of experience in elected office in general and…
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Hey, what do you say, the next person who says "environmentalists have always made these extreme predictions and they never come true" gets a boot. Somewhere. Somewhere deep.
The dozens of dolphins and the sperm whale trapped in the oil, dead or near death, start at around 6:20.
The end…
I heard a white male blogger said something, or failed to say something, or whatever. So, let's pile on and verbally pound him for a while! Because, you know, there is nothing worse going on in the world when it comes to buying and selling (with money or votes) women's freedoms!!!
Or is there?…
As you know, Oedepus Maximus, with the help of a handful of diligent women and men put all into one place the data needed to prove that the now infamous You're Not Helping blog was not in fact written by a woman and three men of possible ethnic diversity working out of the Midwestern US. Instead…
The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach (volume 3, number 2) is in honor of -- if a few months in advance of -- the sixty-fifth birthday of NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott. Edited by NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch (who contributed "Three wishes for Genie" by way of…
Skepchicon starts in two days. For those of you who don't know, Skepchicon is a "track" at Convergence, which in turn is one of those science fiction conventions where everyone dresses up as a Klingon or something.
A Klingon Warrior being interviewed at Convergence in a prior year.
The…
Just one week to go, kids! I'm working my ass off on finishing touches, but the Skepchick Spaceship is mostly go for launch! I'm very much looking forward to seeing a bunch of you there. You're in for a fantastic weekend. ....
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Yesterday: The famous Jason and Jodi Event on the Internet. Relive it here.
Today: The anniversary of freeDOS.
Tomorrow, the death of TH Huxley. Details here.
Funny how things happen in threes. I wonder why?
Just so you know, this post led to this meltdown.
And, for the record, as I say in my first comment on that blog post, it is incorrect, absurd, offensive, and stupid to suggest that I linked a name of an author to that blog. No such thing happened. William, the blogger of YNH, who previously…
It's one of those hitch hiking deals:
NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft will fly past Earth this Sunday (June 27). Mission navigators have tailored this trajectory so the spacecraft can "hitch a ride" on Earth's gravity field, which will help propel the mission toward its appointment with comet…
Or are they being pushed out, but blamed for it?
A blog post in on Womensenews.org, raises interesting issues.
One woman characterized in the post loved her job in IT while working in the Washington D.C. area. The work environment was diverse, she felt comfortable, productive, respected. Then…
Only for white girls:
Funny or Die has this dumb-ass policy of not letting you embed. So, eventually, they'll catch me and the above video will disappear. If that happens, click here.
