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.
Ten American missionaries are charged in Haiti with child kidnapping and conspiracy. There are no accurate details of what happened, but it appears that the missionaries may have been trying to bring 30 or more kinds into some American based adoption system in a manner that was not in accord with…
FROM OPEN FLAMES TO SOUS VIDE: The History Of Cooking in Five Courses
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 7 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m.
Cost $50. Reservations required. Call 612-624-9050
Join Chef Chris Olson and local experts on an exploration of the evolution of cooking in five delicious courses. With…
All human utterances are subject to question. All communications are subject to measurement against a standard that may not have been on the mind of the speaker. ... There is a place where combative communication is favored, revered, honed and practiced, and imposed by force of will and repetition…
I'm sure the iPad is going to be a very successful product. I predict most people who get one will be using it like people now use a Kindle, but with multi media.
But in the mean time, it is fun to make fun of it. And if you want to do that ....
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A cat with an uncanny ability to detect when nursing home patients are about to die has proven itself in around 50 cases by curling up with them in their final hours, according to a new book.
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Let's go visit the Twin Cities Creation Science Science Fair at Har Mar Mall on Feb 13.
We'd meet up at the local bookstore cafe in the mall around 10:30 to 11 or so, visit the science fair exhibits and look around, then around 12:30 to 1:00 we'll have lunch.
There is a facebook event. (Check my…
The following is a subset of the ideas for science fair projects found on this science fair site.
For each project, your assignment is to come up with an experiment that would test the idea.
Make a computer model of the Flood currents.
Statistical occurrence of giants, and midgets and dwarfs and…
The joys of markdown are many.
Markdown is a formatting “language” like HTML that you can use to specify the final appearance of text. When you use a “word processor” like Microsoft Word or Openoffice.org Writer, the text you generate is “marked up” (or “marked down” as it were) with formatting…
Is scheduled!
It will be held Feb 13 and 14 at Har Mar Mall, at the corner of County B and Snelling in Roseville MN.
Here's some info from the web site:
Have you been to the Home School Science Fairs? They are great! Some of the best and brightest kids in Minnesota were there. You could have…
PLoS Blog Post Pick of the Month for January 2010 is as the NN blog Endless Forms, written by Anne-Marie Hodge.
Click here to read this post.
THERE IS A PIK-CHER OF A KITTEH!!!!
Ideas that were once championed by evolutionists are no longer valid, much like the false science behind man-made global warming. Students deserve the truth.
That's from a guy running for school board in Wisconsin. Pharyngula has the details.
From the amazon web site:
....ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books. Amazon customers will at that point…
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Chris Matthews "forgetting that Obama is black" falls into that same range of racism as "Pretty for a black girl" and the "You're not like those other black people" claptrap often espoused by the "I'm not racist, but..." crowd. They're coded as compliments, but the subtext is still an ugly…
I told you so, but most of you would not listen. Amazon has tossed an entire publishing company off its site (hat tip: H.G.) because that company would not comply with Amazon's universally imposed Kindle edition pricing strategy. That places Amazon at the decision making table where the…
Meal and Reel, Feb 19, Creation w/special guest Greg Laden at Edina Cinema
Edina, the home of Al Franken, the town known locally as "Every Day I Need Attention" because of their quaint suburban attitudes, the place that appears to have the only half decent woman's hair stylist in the city (because…
This is the question that was raised in the wake of a Science Online 2010 session on civility. I did not attend the session so I am only addressing the issues that were subsequently discussed on blog posts written in the aftermath of a now infamous conversation that appears to have been (by their…
The broadcast networks that air the Super Bowl have historically rejected advocacy ads. Yet CBS, which is airing the Super Bowl this year, has accepted an anti-choice ad by the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family.
Details here
I did not appreciate the sentiment that the New York Yankees had to win the World Series because Osama Bin Laden blew up the World Trade Center. I do not appreciate the sentiment that the New Orleans Saints have to win the Super Bowl because George Bush let poor New Orleans residents die in the…
A few people asked me if I saw any polar bears during my recent trip to Antarctica. No, I didn't...
None? Not even one? Did you even see any prints????
Polar Bears in Antarctica at Digital Rabbit
On Feb 12, Feb 19th the Darwin-related film "Creation" will debut in at least one local theater here in the twin cities. A group of us will be getting together prior at a restaurant or other appropriate venue, at which I will be asked to say a few words about Darwin. This event will be organized…
One opinion you should check out:
...Obama is missing the opportunity of a lifetime to give us serious climate change legislation, and he's blowing it by going down the middle of the road, trying to please everyone. This year could be the end of any meaningful climate change legislation, until the…
Howard Zinn died on Wednesday.
But first, he got very old and before that he inspired two or three generations of skeptics and questioners of history and society.
Of all the books I've ever given to people, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present is the one I've given the most…
