September 2, 2009
Source and more commentary
September 2, 2009
...all you need to do to not die from the flu is to "eat healthy" and take lots of vitamins. If you eat healthy and take lots of vitamins and get the flu, your lymph nodes will swell up a little but that's all....
...Addicts totally made their own decision to become addicted and then become thieves…
September 1, 2009
Have a look at this:
This year Kolibri Expeditions started working with the communities of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve lying just next door to Manu. Going down the Alto Madre de Dios river Manu is to the left and Amarakaeri reserve to the right.
The birding has been just fantastic with birds…
September 1, 2009
You know, I think we've done a lot of good stuff at Quiche Moraine, but this post by Mike Huabrich is a step beyond and above what we've managed so far. Mike visited the recent town hall meeting held by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and provides us with reporting and commentary. Have a look.
September 1, 2009
is here.
September 1, 2009
So I'm standing there at the Al Franken booth at the State Fair chatting with a volunteer and this run of the mill Minnesotan working or middle class looking couple comes along and says hi. Another volunteer starts to say "would you like to..." and the woman cuts her off and says "No, we're…
September 1, 2009
This one of what women find attractive in men.
"We have found that women evaluate facial attractiveness on two levels -- a sexual level, based on specific facial features like the jawbone, cheekbone and lips, and a nonsexual level based on overall aesthetics," said Robert G. Franklin, graduate…
September 1, 2009
All my thoughts are fault related is looking for some new geological metaphors. Please go help here out.
My contributions are below the fold.
Half-Life. verb. Never quite getting to the point because with each thing you say you are only half way there.
"He tried to tell me about his date last…
September 1, 2009
Yes, but not necessarily because it is wrong.
Some time ago researchers proposed that the modern DNA signal indicated that chimps and humans continued to interbreed long after they split in evolutionary time. A new study refutes this, and as the author states, this new study is more correct…
September 1, 2009
Go check out Everything Worth Reading, in which a post of mine is dubbed "Post of the Month" ... there area LOT of great posts referenced there, so do browse around!
September 1, 2009
I am now blogging full time so expect about a ten fold increase in posts per day.
I'm only kidding about the ten fold increase. In fact, you should expect a decrease in quantity because I've got two simultaneous writing projects and that will be taking up more of my time. Also, once the offspring…
August 31, 2009
This is a very fun video to watch for so many reasons ...
August 31, 2009
The practice of growing food and keeping livestock was invented numerous times throughout the world. One 'center' of agriculture is said to be the Middle East. Despite the fact that calling the Middle East a "center" in this context is a gross oversimplification, it is true that agriculture was…
August 31, 2009
... is waiting for you at Quiche Moraine.
August 31, 2009
Good morning and welcome to another installment of "The Falsehoods." Today's falsehood is the assertion that the poor have more babies than the rich, or that the poor just have more babies to begin with. In comparison to ... whatever.
Now, before you rush off to the Internet and find some table…
August 31, 2009
First it was woo. Then it was Russian Brides. And now.....
This funny ad from yesterday:
And this one staring at me right now:
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August 30, 2009
That's The Mike, of Tangled Up in Blue Guy, and Quiche Moraine.
The title of this post, "Ignorance of how evolution works is amazing to behold. " is a quote from one of my favorite (recent) posts by TUIB Guy, which is called: The Agony and The Irony. A close second is Logic and Perspective.…
August 30, 2009
Enjoy this before it goes away. Embeding may get disabled at any moment.
Hat Tip: Lightning Fingers Liz
August 30, 2009
I'm not entirely sure which of my friends and relatives like the Minnesota State Fair and which don't. In some cases it is quite clear. If you are my facebook friend, you know that John Funk thinks the State Fair is what Hell would be like, and Stephanie Zvan revels in being a Bad Minnesotan…
August 30, 2009
".. here's the toll free number for the hair club for wizards!.."
The wrap-up is totally stolen from Indiana Jones. Sorry about the ads at the end.
Hat Tip: Miss Cellania
August 30, 2009
The DSCC just sent me this nice video:
Ted's passing means the passing of an era. He said "the dream live on" but he also made the dream happen by unabashedly embracing liberal ideals while at the same time working tirelessly across political factions to make things happen. Now, I'm afraid the…
August 29, 2009
In August, Goddard added 4,128 new-generation Intel "Nehalem" processors to its Discover high-end computing system. The upgraded Discover will serve as the centerpiece of a new climate simulation capability at Goddard. Discover will host NASA's modeling contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel…
August 29, 2009
Research from Bristol:
Doctors and lawyers are more likely to come from wealthy backgrounds according to new research from the Department of Economics that indicates that the 'social gap' that prevents poorer people from entering the top professions is becoming more pronounced over time.
Using data…
August 29, 2009
Dogs:
Cats:
August 29, 2009
I did not go to the Michele Bachmann "town hall" meeting yesterday because of a schedule conflict (I was out of town) but there is some news. Check out the last few posts on Dump Michele Bachmann blog. There is evidence, apparently, that Bachmann supporters were bussed in to pack the room. I've…
August 28, 2009
I posted a photo of a itty bitty molecule that is making the news these days ... the photo, not the molecule ... but I didn't have much to say about it except that it was cool. Ethan Siegel has picked up the thread and explains what it is we are looking at.
I myself have used the little needle…
August 28, 2009
Here is a major press release by Elizabeth K. Gardner on the link between climate change and poverty, reproduced below the fold for your edification.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Urban workers could suffer most from climate change as the cost of food drives them into poverty, according…
August 28, 2009
First, let's get this one thing straight, because a lot of the astroturfers and even reporters and politicians are not getting it. Health care is when you get sick and the medical profession fixes you up, or some version of that. How good our health care system is becomes a matter of how good the…
August 28, 2009
I made the point in an earlier post (Discordant Democrats vs. Republican Dittoheads) that Republicans work in lock step and simply do whatever they are told. I'm not talking (necessarily) about the average Joe the Plumber Republican. I'm talking about elected officials with law degrees. The…
August 28, 2009
DURHAM, N.C. -- Two Duke University education experts have serious concerns about the Obama administration's proposal to link teacher evaluations to student tests scores as a criterion for how much federal stimulus money states will receive for K-12 education.
Friday (Aug. 28) is the deadline to…
