October 9, 2009
An item from the NCSE:
A special issue of the Journal of Effective Teaching, a peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to the discussion of teaching excellence in colleges and universities, is devoted to the topic of teaching evolution in the college classroom. Featured are Randy Moore, Sehoya…
October 9, 2009
If you are a right wing Republican conservative Yahoo, this letter is NOT for you. If you are a moderate, progressive, liberal, centrist, or anyone associated with the legitimate (i.e., not FOX News) press, this IS for you.
Dear Disgruntled Sisters and Brothers,
Many people are beside themselves…
October 9, 2009
You'll recall that it was recently reported that the Californial Science Center, which is loosely affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution, had planned a screening of "Darwin's Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record" which is apparently a creationist documentary.
Well, now, the venue…
October 9, 2009
A recently published statement on current scientific knowledge on cosmic evolution and biological evolution from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences concludes: "The extraordinary progress in our understanding of evolution and the place of man in nature should be shared with everyone. ... Furthermore…
October 9, 2009
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered a new ring around Saturn. This ring is very different from those previously known. In some ways, this ring resembles the "accretionary disk" found around some stars more than it resembles the thin, orderly rings that Saturn is famous for.
Read about it…
October 9, 2009
A team of archaeologists working offshore from Haifa, Israel in the Mediterranean has discovered both direct and indirect evidence of human tuberculosis. This is important because, if confirmed, the TB cases date to 3,000 years earlier than expected: The disease should not be in skeletons this…
October 9, 2009
This just in from the NCSE:
Will a Massachusetts bill entitled "An Act Relative to Protecting the Religious Freedom of Students" encourage the discussion of creationism in public school science classes? That's what a cosponsor of the bill, Representative Elizabeth Poirier (R-14th Bristol), told the…
October 9, 2009
... there was a speech and a plan ...
Posted here on Collective Imagination.
October 9, 2009
The big machines are going to whack into the moon in a few minutes.
They just said "Ten minutes to impact. Fight, are you go?" (go) "Payload, are you go?" (go) "Command, are you go?" (go) "Somebodyelse I can't remember are you go?" (go).
We are seeing images being beamed back from the moon.…
October 8, 2009
On September 11th, 2008 Meleanie Hain went to her child's soccer game with a Glock pistol in a holster strapped to her hip.
This was in the vicinity of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. To her and presumably others, it may have been an act of patriotism. I suspect it was an explicitly anti-Obama act given…
October 8, 2009
And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it."
-Isaiah 35:8
A Repost
So, I'm having dinner over at Lynn Fellman Studios with Lynn, Genie Scott of NCSE who is in…
October 8, 2009
It does not matter what you believe about god, creationism, science, evolution, whatever. If you were raised in a society in which there is an evil enemy that you are convinced intends to arrive some day on your country's shores, take over your government, impose a new social order, marry your…
October 8, 2009
So after watching what will surely go down as one of the most epic games in Twins, and even all of baseball, history, it seems a little anticlimactic to sit down and write about the 200-mile high club, but what the hey, it's for science.
Adults only, please
October 8, 2009
Joey: "Hey, Greg. You're a regular Walking Encyclopedia!"
Greg: "Thanks, Joey. I like to learn lots of stuff."
Joey: "Mugrphhhmmmft."
(Mugrphhhmmmft is the sound Joey's fist makes giving Greg a bloody nose.)
Read more.
October 8, 2009
There are several answers to this question. One was overheard the other day among a bunch of well educated people oriented towards science who were taking a break from their job.
Person 1: "So, how effective is the seasonal flu shot?"
Person 2: "I heard about 1%. If you get the flu shot, you'll…
October 8, 2009
This just in: Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the NCSE, has won the California Academy of Sciences Fellows Medal.
This is somewhere between an Oscar and a Nobel. Congratulations Genie!!!
Details...
DARWIN DEFENDER TAKES TOP PRIZE
California Academy of Sciences honors Dr. Eugenie C. Scott…
October 8, 2009
It's not Linux, that's for sure...
Lest we forget: Windows 7 is just like Vista, folks. "Windows 7" is Microsoft's attempt to re-brand the damaged "Windows" name after the extremely poor "Windows Vista" release. I love that you can still buy systems with Windows XP "downgrade" because Windows Vista…
October 8, 2009
By default, the text-based email client 'alpine' requests a password the first time, per session, that it is requested a password from any email services it checks. For the duration of that session, it remembers the password, but forgets it if you quit alpine so you have to enter it again later.…
October 8, 2009
Lately, creationist rhetoric seems to increasingly mention the idea that if scientists really understood evolution, life, and biology, then why don't they just create it themselves, as a kind of proof of concept? This rhetoric usually includes a statement like: "They can't even create a simple…
October 8, 2009
We are the angry left. Don't get us mad.
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October 8, 2009
James Hall has a post on Collective Imagination that you will want to read if you are interested in FOSS.
October 7, 2009
Yes, Laelaps on Scienceblogs Dot Com is two years old today! Can you believe it?
What? You never heard of Laelaps? Inconceivable!!!!
Start here and read everything. It's really great.
October 7, 2009
OK, you can go back to lower ground now. The warning has been canceled.
From the BBC:
A tsunami warning has been issued for 11 nations in the south-west Pacific, including Papua New Guinea, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake off Vanuatu.
The epicentre was 295km (180 miles) north-northwest of…
October 7, 2009
Behold the very cheap 3D scanner
And now the 3D printer:
October 7, 2009
... Collectively. By visiting the new Scienceblogs.com blog "Collective Imagination."
Collective imagination pairs an individual science blogger with an individual scientist or engineer type person from G.E. to discuss stuff. Currently, the science blogger in the Collective Imagination Steel…
October 7, 2009
When I hear the words "We are a Microsoft shop" I cringe. And I usually look at the person who just said it funny. Here is one reason why.
