November 10, 2009
I watched a pre-release copy of tonights show, the second of three episodes, last week, and I have some comments to make about it. The short version: Do watch it! Then report back here and tell us what you thought.
I've seen every single human evolution documentary ever made, and some of them I…
November 10, 2009
Don't mess with Maddow. Or, "Keep your right wing Christian hands off ... the pages????"
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November 10, 2009
In Pine Plains New York, a gunman in his 40s, alone, has taken a high school administrator hostage, no shots have been fired, and it sounds like they are getting the students out of the school OK.
Pine Plains is east of the Hudson near Rhinebeck, near the Mass/Conn borders. This is a fairly…
November 9, 2009
Friday the thirteenth is a day. This Friday
Dark dark dark is a band.
Brute heart is another band
Fashion Sabbath is a fashion show featuring the works of a bunch of people I don't know and one person I know quite well.
At The Bedlam on the West Bank in Minneapolis. Ten bucks, starts s at Ten…
November 9, 2009
I could watch this video billions of times.
November 9, 2009
This isn't the only way, but it is a good way. It is also the hardest way that I've done it.
My daughter, Julia, is named after two people. One of them is Julia Child. I happen to think Julia Child has had more influence on American society than most other people, by helping to make varied and…
November 9, 2009
Rebecca Skloot found a story of immortality and faith in a young woman's tissue sample.
The book is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The author is: Rebecca Skloot. And the PW paper is here:
Check it out!!!!
November 9, 2009
Have you seen the movie "Speed"? Great action flick if you haven't. One of my favorite scenes in that movie is this one (apologies for vagueness ... I have not seen the movie in quite some time): There is a bus running wild on the streets being followed by emergency vehicles. A group of girl…
November 9, 2009
Just when you thought it was time to abandon the mouse altogether and start using only the command line, the OpenSource world has come up with a mouse with one zillion buttons that allows one-handed use of OpenOffice apps and plays World of Warcraft.
Orvieto, Italy, November 6, 2009 - In…
November 9, 2009
Many people claim it is easy to explain. I once heard a bunch of high school teachers at a conference patting each other on the back about how easy it is to understand evolution. And I remember thinking "OK, so this must be why none of my intro college freshman students don't have a clue...."…
November 9, 2009
In lecturing about behavioral biology (in any of a number of classes) it has been hard for me to avoid the lion story and the languar story. Both involve infanticide and selfish strategies by individuals. In both cases, females do things that are unexpected from the middle class heternormative…
November 9, 2009
It is a good idea to not use religious phrases like this in your newsletters:
The activities that took place inside and outside of the classroom last week were a wonderful example of how blessed I am to serve as the principal here at ____.
We want you to be qualified. Your being blessed or not is…
November 9, 2009
Reference management is always an issue for academics. I have the following piece of advice for you in this regard:
1) Start early in your career to actually manage your references.
2) Consider OpenSource alternatives where possible.
3) Check out this post and it's comments for a current…
November 8, 2009
Those people were gambling and consorting with donkeys. They deserved to die.
November 8, 2009
I can tell you which one I'd prefer to go up against. Below the bold because it is all squiggly and gross.
November 8, 2009
Minneapolis is the City of Bikes. There are more bikes here per capita than any other US city, I'm told. Many Japanese cities have more bikes per capita and even less room, so the whole bike parking issue in Japan is pretty severe. And, as usual, Japanese culture allows for more flexibility in…
November 8, 2009
There is a theory that the Large Hadron Collider has had bad luck getting started up, and the US based super colldiing super duperductor was defunded over 10 years ago because the Higgs Boson does not want to be discovered, and has gone back in time (to now) to muck up the process of its own…
November 8, 2009
I forgot, but it was four days ago.
November 8, 2009
Fight! Fight! The librarians are fighting about software!
I never realized how tough and ideological librarians were until I sat on a University committee on IT. The Librarians were always giving the administration a hard time about their knuckleheaded decisions regarding software, passwords,…
November 7, 2009
From the NCSE:
The phenomenon of Islamic creationism was addressed by two major newspapers, The New York Times (November 3, 2009) and the Boston Globe (October 25, 2009), in the wake of a recent conference at Hampshire College on evolution in the Muslim world. (Webcasts of the conference…
November 7, 2009
When I was a kid, my friend Karl and I illegally snuck into a movie theater to see "The Mark of the Devil" (or words to that effect) then just out. We didn't sneak in because we didn't have the money. We snuck in because we were 13 or so and that was the only way we could see the movie, which we…
November 7, 2009
I don't mean blog posts or emails. For blog posts I use souped up gedit, and for emails I use pico. (There was a time when I thought I'd be using emacs for both of those, but emacs suffers from a deep philosophical dysfunction.) I'm talking about longer documents that have sections with headings…
November 7, 2009
Michel Bachmann has absolutely no sense of proportion in her personal statements (as a member of congress) or in what she encourages or allows happening around her. She is also an extraordinarily dishonest person. That first bit ... lack of sense of proportion (or shame) is well addressed in the…
November 7, 2009
This will make you laugh. Then you will realize that there is nothing funny here. Nothing. Then you will cry. With Glenn Beck. Cry for Glenn. Cry for our nation. And if you think I'm joking that's just what they made you think.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
The…
November 7, 2009
hat tip: johannes lochmann
November 6, 2009
One of the leading indicators for behavior and intent is gaze direction. Many under cover detectives use this cue to figure out who may be predators in a crowd. In work for NBC Sports, Nils Krahnstoever has shown that we can track the gaze direction of football players providing a whole new level…
November 6, 2009
Two dead. Then alive.
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