January 9, 2010
Please make yourself aware of this situation described on Phil Plait's blog.
January 9, 2010
And here we are not really talking about the operating systems, but the philosophy that derives decision making and development. An OpenSource system, according to J.H., is "real people oriented." Read "There's a problem on your computer"
January 9, 2010
As previously noted, J. Philippe Rushton has made the argument that the brain size of "Blacks" is about 1267 cc's, and for whites it is about 1347 CC's. It has also been noted that Rushton claims that the average IQ of Blacks is 85 and he average IQ of whites is 100. But does Rushton say that…
January 9, 2010
The process of using critical thinking involves several steps. These steps work formally in experimental design and analysis, studying and mastering new concepts as we learn and in making decisions that people need to make in the various aspects of our lives. They also work informally and people…
January 9, 2010
Is it true that
intellectual dishonesty would get anyone canned from a tenured university position.
Maybe. but being an unmitigated racist asshat is apparently not.
January 9, 2010
Some people say yes, some people say no. Either way, Glen Beck is a Racist Moron.
First, watch this:
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(I love the fact that Rachel appreciates "Get Smart" .... but I digress)
Then watch this....
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January 8, 2010
Denailists have a repertoire of gambits they use to spread their denialism and make their points. They need these gambits because they otherwise lack facts, cred, usable theory, or any of the other good stuff that makes science, history, etc. work.
James Hrynyshyn has written a post about a…
January 8, 2010
Sci Curious takes a poke at the recent G-spot research (which we discussed here) in this post: Friday Weird Science: the "reality" of the G Spot and the mainstream media. Sci reviews the actual, original research paper.
January 8, 2010
Ubuntu, Imma gonna let you be my operating system, but first, I gotta ask you to stop acting more like Windows with every new release. K?
... as time goes by two things remain annoying about Ubuntu. One is off and on, and varies over time, and that is the lack of certain essential automatically…
January 7, 2010
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January 7, 2010
When I post about race, the racists show up and use my blog to spew their hokey science all over the place. There are reasons that I tolerate that to a certain extent, but there are limits. When a student shows up in a classroom and starts asking "innocent" questions of the teacher about "…
January 7, 2010
Happy New Year and welcome to this new "on-line journal" which will be a collection of essays. It will be sort of a continuation of thoughts from my book, "Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style." In the essays, which will be roughly twice a week, I will be making…
January 7, 2010
Philipe Rushton, in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior, reports average brain size for the three races. The following is the graph from Rusthton's book:
I put this post here for reference in a couple of conversations. The data are bogus and any conclusions that might be drawn from it are…
January 6, 2010
Are you for a pro-gay marriage bill currently being considered in New Jersey or against it?
There's a poll.
This is a tough one. PZ' minions are making a dent but not enough. So I respectfully request all eleven of my readers to head over there and help out.
January 6, 2010
As you know, Heathrow is the world's largest and busiest airport, second only to Schiphol in Amsterdam and JFK in New York. All three are eclipsed, of course, by O'Hare in Chicago and Minneapolis/Saint Paul airport in Bloomington, Minnesota.
.... read on ...
January 6, 2010
You may remember this theory regarding the extinction of the dinosaurs:
Now, there's this ...
Hat tip: Glen
January 6, 2010
George Bush and Barack Obama compared on the Terror Issue:
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January 6, 2010
The Family is a fundamentalist group with thousands of members across the world (by their own admission) bent on inserting their religious perspective into national and global politics. It is documented (in part) in The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff…
January 5, 2010
Remember this?
If not, you missed one of the great moments on the intertubes. These kids are Krazy In Love!
Now, CLICK HERE and shell out five loonies for the happy couple!!!!
January 5, 2010
Soccer practice was brutal. The hot summer heat made every drill twice as hard as usual. Everybody was a little bit off of their game, however I was particularly sluggish. The coaches called for a water break after finally noticing that our dehydration was significantly affecting our performance. I…
January 5, 2010
..The Janus Edition is now up at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog. Click here to read this plant blog carnival.
January 5, 2010
A tuna has been sold at auction in Tokyo's fish market for 16.28 million yen ($175,000, £109,000), the highest price paid in Japan for nine years.
The bluefin tuna weighs 232 kg - nearly four times as much as the average Japanese man.
It was caught off the northern tip of Japan's main island of…
January 5, 2010
.... Have you ever had this happen: You are minding your own business, teaching your life science course, it's early in the term. A student, on the way out after class (never at the beginning of class, rarely during class) mentions something about "carbon dating." This usually happens around the…
January 5, 2010
Social Media and Atheism .... an Atheist Talk Conversation with Mike Haubrich, Stephanie Zvan and Greg Laden.
We talk about trolls too.
The rug really ties the conversation together.
Click Here to see or download the MP4.
Embedded version may or may not be below the fold:
Here is the first…
January 4, 2010
I don't agree that civility is action and politeness is language. Politeness is formal arbitrary cultural convention, while civility is also arbitrary cultural convention but as dictated by Westernonormative agents. Both apply to language and behavior.
But whatever.
This post by Coturnix at A…
January 4, 2010
I had mentioned earlier that the volcanoes of the Virugna region in the Western Rift Valley (as well as other highland spots) have often been islands of rain forest separated from each other by different habitats, including grasslands and wooded savannas. this has produced an island effect that…
January 4, 2010
.. because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homepage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
Homepage of reason? Did he really say that?
Perhaps he was referring to this.
January 3, 2010
The other day there were cops in front of my local grocery store cajoling people to put money in the Salvation Army bucket. This might be worse:
January 3, 2010
Yet another blogger is calling for your input and involvement in relation to a session planned for Scioten, the Science Online 2010 conference coming up later this month.
Janet Stemwedel writes: #scio10 preparation: Is there a special problem of online civility?
January 3, 2010
In a recent study, 56 percent of the women interviewed in a sample of 1800 claimed that they had a "g-spot" which is an area inside the vagina with increased sensitivity with respect to sexual arousal.
(Added: See THIS write up of the original research)
But a twin study showed that when one twin…
