June 24, 2010
Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean.
June 23, 2010
The podcast for The Cosmetics Cop: Paula Begoun has materialized here.
Paula Begoun is the bestselling author of "The Beauty Bible" and "Don't Go To The Cosmetics Counter Without Me." We'll examine the science behind some popular beauty products, and find out what real research says about makeup…
June 23, 2010
If so, would you please take this survey? It is for a friend of mine who is working on a research project regarding what looks to me like "framing" in IT management.
We'll beat him up later for the framing bit.
Anyway, click here to do the survey thing. Thanks.
June 23, 2010
How can a nation call itself civilized if it executes its own citizens?
The story goes like this. A famous scientist whom you've likely never heard of was in China for several years excavating a famous archaeological site that you certainly have heard of. During that time, he felt the need, as…
June 22, 2010
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June 22, 2010
I have an ex facebook friend with no sense of proportion, no sense of humor, and very little sense of her own lack of importance. We disagreed on guns. She wants unfettered gun ownership. We disagree, apparently, on anthropogenic global warming. She thinks its made up. I don't. And now, she wants…
June 22, 2010
Did you know that there is a mite problem? Among other things, they appear to have infested the dog food supply chain, and it may even be that through this vector, mites may affect both humans and dogs with allergy more widely than previously. This is an interesting emerging disease, in a way.…
June 22, 2010
Can prayer reduce the number of abortions?
One of the most interesting stories in evolutionary biology is reviewed by Larry Moran: On the Origin of the Double Membrane in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts
At least one bad idea by Big Oil has been stopped.
June 22, 2010
Biologist fears Gulf oil threat to dolphins
"We will brace for the worst if the oil comes here, but we don't think there is any protection we can give to the dolphins if it does. What will happen if they can't move away from it? It scares the hell out of me," Randall Wells said in a telephone…
June 22, 2010
In graphic design, Marian Bantjes says, throwing your individuality into a project is heresy. She explains how she built her career doing just that, bringing her signature delicate illustrations to storefronts, valentines and even genetic diagrams.
June 22, 2010
I dunno. But Stephanie Zvan has worked out the Gun Protection Best Case Scenario. And it happens to be the latest post on Quiche Moraine so I know you won't want to miss this.
June 22, 2010
Brookhaven National Laboratory is a multipurpose research laboratory funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Located on Long Island, NY, Brookhaven operates large-scale facilities for studies in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, applied science, and advanced technology. The Laboratory's…
June 22, 2010
... Which might well be cold and dead because the firearm discharged by accident or was taken away from me by a home invader or I got depressed and shot myself.
Yes, folks, there are things to consider when contemplating private firearm ownership other than what you see on TV or read in the NRA…
June 21, 2010
Three peacekeepers have been killed in Sudan's Darfur region, officials say.
The peacekeepers, from Rwanda, came under attack in West Darfur, an official with the joint UN-African Union force told Reuters news agency.
They were guarding a new base under construction in an area where there have been…
June 21, 2010
This blog does more than sit there ... blogging. Sometimes it reaches out and does something real. And this year, GLB sponsored (in part) a runner in the Grandma's Marathon, in Duluth, MN.
Asha Shoffner ran the half marathon with a time of 1:48:14. This is Asha's Blog. The producers, writers…
June 21, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 3, 2010) - Who said scientists can't dance? The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is proud to announce the third annual "Dance Your Ph.D." interpretative dance video contest. The contest, which is open to anyone with a Ph.D. or…
June 21, 2010
So, a while ago, Ben Zvanwas talking about doing something with the Bible, which would involve processing the text through some filters and recompiling it. This sort of thing has always interested me: Not recompiling the bible, but rather, textual analysis in general using the basic material…
June 21, 2010
Oddly, Bill O'Reilly seems to have her on the run.
June 20, 2010
The next installment of "Everything you Know is Sort of Wrong" will be on the falsehood: "Humans evolved from apes." Or, if you prefer, "Humans did not evolve from apes." Either way, you're wrong. And right.
Confused? Great, then we're half way there! Here's the details. (This is part of…
June 20, 2010
... obviously, we're talking about emacs ...
I asked my email-pal: "UNIX or Windoze?". He replied "UNIX". I said "Ah...me too!".
I asked my email-pal: "Linux or AIX?". He said "Linux, of course". I said "Me too".
I asked him: "Emacs or vi". He replied "Emacs". I said "Me too. Small world."
I…
June 20, 2010
The blogger(s?) at You're Not Helping have tried, really tried, to help. But in such a ham-handed, erratic, uneven, capricious, ad hominem (in that, if you're PZ Myers you must be wrong) way, that they have polarized where they could have rallied, obfuscated where they could have clarified, and…
June 20, 2010
Assault charges, censure, impeachment. Throw the bum out.
And replace him with another Democrat, of course.
June 19, 2010
A former Rwandan army chief of staff, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, has been shot in South Africa and taken to hospital in a critical condition.
His wife told the BBC the couple had been returning from shopping when a gunman opened fire on the car.
She said it was an assassination attempt as there had…
June 19, 2010
In theory, zebras use their stripes in combination with their herding and flight behavior to confuse predators. The confusion probably makes it harder for the predator (e.g., a lion) to be able to avoid a damaging kick because the stripes make it difficult to tell where one zebra starts and the…
June 19, 2010
... lunatics like Sharron Angle, Timothy McVeigh, Michele Bachmann and Rush Limbaugh think it's there to facilitate their idiotic temper tantrums. And a certain percentage of these horrible people carry out their violent fantasies.
Sorry, folks, but calling for a "second amendment remedy IS…
June 18, 2010
Despite protestations to the contrary, The Vatican, the Church, and various and sundry governments and prosecutors and state attorneys, with the press watching and rarely complaining, continuously believe and occasionally assert, and always, always act as thought it is true, that the church has a…
June 18, 2010
..... as requested:
June 18, 2010
Background, more details, here.
