January 29, 2010
Dogs:
Cats:
Hat tip: Digital Rabbit
January 29, 2010
I've never seen the ocean glow, but Katie Spotz did this week. She has been rowing in the Atlantic Ocean for 3 weeks now, getting closer to South America each day. A recent tweet from her:
Read the rest at DR
January 29, 2010
There is a big fight going on over at Quiche Moraine. Apparently, my friend and co-blogger Mike made a comment or two, months back, about someone and she didn't like it. So she complained to Stephanie. Well, she complained to me, and I forwarded her complaint to Stephanie. And then they got…
January 28, 2010
Dogs:
Cats:
Hat Tip: Julia
January 27, 2010
Not the actual babies, but the birth weight of the new ones.
Just a snippet; I've not looked into this yet. But given that human size goes up and down over secular time, this probably would mean (if it means anything at all) that we've peaked out with whatever causes that cycle:
Birthweights in…
January 27, 2010
Skeptics ask questions (Q's) and try to do so in a systematic, scientific, way. But what about IQ (and here I use IQ as a euphemism for smarts). The recent discussion here and elsewhere about the Skepchicks touched on this issue. I've been (temporarily) avoiding it, but skepchick car2d2 is…
January 27, 2010
Negotiating with dog god...
Judaism is a religion of scepticism, made for and used by sceptics. The relationship with Jews and God is not a one-way thing in which God says 'thou-shalt-not' and everyone jumps. It's a constantly evolving contract. It's not inappropriate to remind ourselves,…
January 27, 2010
Hat tip: Monicks
January 26, 2010
Librarians & Scientists: YMMV
...people (and more so engineers and scientists) consult their friends first, then their files, then after trying everything else, consult the library. It's sort of the library/librarian as goalie metaphor (you know, 10 other people missed the ball so the goalie…
January 26, 2010
The following story is current, but the issue is not new. But interesting. ...
Science standards for Minnesota schools are about to be set for the next six years. Is the battle to keep pseudoscience out of our classrooms over? Sadly the door has been cracked open for intelligent design, an idea…
January 25, 2010
... the theory might diversify ...
Pat Robertson needs to watch this. In fact, this YouTube video needs to be attached to his eyes so he has to watch it again and again for all of his days .
Hat Tip Glen
January 25, 2010
I really need to be clear that as an atheist, I don't pretend to "know" that there are no supernatural entities. I agree with those who label themselves as agnostics that there is no way to ever know the unknowable with an absolute degree of 100% certainty. I think that those atheists who claim…
January 25, 2010
Point:
Poe:
Wow.
January 25, 2010
Robert Gentleman and Donald Nickelson have joined the board of REvolution Computing. Gentleman is co-creator of this OpenSource statistical package which is widely used by researchers. The news was released moments ago, and here is a press release from the company:
REvolution Computing, the…
January 24, 2010
Camp Quest is a secular summer camp program, and the Minnesota Version of it has been growing in recent years, and needs volunteers to help. 2010 camping dates are June 25 to July 31, not too far from the Twin Cities.
Here's a brochure (PDF, 900K) with more info, and the web site is here.
If…
January 24, 2010
Although if Microsoft wasn't the Gorilla in the Room example of Proprietary the contrast may not be as stark. Maybe....
JH at Linux in Exile discusses the anti-Google "bug" in IE that MS left in place for months.
January 24, 2010
On Desiree Schell's Skeptically Speaking Radio with Quiche Moraine and Almost Diamond's Stephanie Zvan ...
... a panel discussion on skepticism and race. Is the face of modern skepticism really as monochrome as it appears? How do we make our message appeal to a broader, more diverse audience? And…
January 23, 2010
This is a few weeks old, but you may not have seen it.
January 23, 2010
When I first got involved with skepticism, I noticed that it was a total sausage fest. Except for one prominent group of women, the Skepchicks, the attention paid to women in the skeptical movement was slim. And how did I feel about the Skepchicks? A little jealous honestly....
must read here
January 23, 2010
I'm a woman, and I'm in technology, and I demand here and now that you stop catering to me. That's right, I'm talking to YOU: brands, marketers, PR flaks, hardware manufacturers, advocacy groups and the women and men in my industry. And while we're at it, stop referring to me and my female…
January 23, 2010
Hat tip: Julia
January 22, 2010
Cats:
Dogs:
Oh, sorry, that second one was actually cats too. I guess cats win this week!
January 22, 2010
Dear Slymepit. Go fuck yourself.
January 22, 2010
The general told them to stop. The manufacturer agreed. Fox news is now calling the US Armed Forces unpatriotic. Or something.
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January 22, 2010
Remember this?
Divining sticks that consist essentially of an antenna not even attached to a radio (which might make it slihgtly useful for listening to music and stuff), and costing between 16 and 60 THOUSAND DOLLARS each, are being used as the main technology for detecting bombs at check points…
January 22, 2010
Southern white racists in the US think of themselves as a repressed minority. Which, probably, they should be.
Note the use of the word "fundamental" in this context.
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I wonder what the backstory on the "strike" is!?
January 21, 2010
... talking about some guy named "Bora" or something ...
I thought the same thing when I met Bora last year!
January 20, 2010
Most people get this wrong. Here it is done correctly:
original photo
January 20, 2010
Cognitive Daily, the blog, is one of the blogs that made science blogs (both in general and at scienceblogs.com) a legitimate, valid enterprise instead of a bunch of random jackasses screwing around on the Internet. Like a nice hat on a man who could be part scoundrel or a great pair of shoes on a…
January 20, 2010
You probably don't know that I went to Harvard, because I rarely mention it, but I did, and when I was there I literally worked and studied around the Divinity school. The lab I worked in was on one side of the Div School, and the Peabody Museum (home of the Anthro Dept) was on the other side of…
