August 10, 2009
It probably helps that Sarah Palin came out with an over the top statement on her facebook page.
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August 10, 2009
As you know, PZ Myers and a well behaved group of just over three hundred interested skeptics visited the Creation Museum in Kentucky last week. One result of this visit is an epic post by PZ which pretty much obviates any need to actually to go to the museum yourself.
If you are a student…
August 10, 2009
The wreckage of the collision between two planets has been observed in outer space.
An animation of the event can be downloaded here.
NASA has spotted an interplantery collision. Two planets, both rocky, one about the size of our moon and the other about the size of mercuery, smashed into each…
August 10, 2009
New Wildlife Blog
There is a new blog that looks pretty darn good called "All About Wildlife" and focusing on threatened habitat and endangered species. It is called "All About Wildlife" and it is located here. I'd say this is one for the RSS feed.
Musings on Nature Blogging ... in Nature Blog…
August 10, 2009
A bit of reporting on what they look like. I'm sticking with my original story: They look like the Roe v. Wade protests of the 1980s, but with a racialized twist.
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August 10, 2009
Updated: You can vote again today!
This photo by Ben Zvan of Analiese Miller, who is also known as The Anthropologist, is the entry in a voting contest that could get Ana a chance at a part in Mad Men (the cable TV thing).
It is necessary that you CLICK HERE and vote for Ana by giving her Five…
August 9, 2009
In the form of a new persono-professional web site. Here.
August 9, 2009
As an anthropologists, I have a LOT of thoughts about this. I'd love to know your thoughts.
(Sorry the embedding is so obnoxious. There was no obvious way to remove the ads.)
Hat tip: This site
August 9, 2009
Hat Tip: A Blog from Hell
August 9, 2009
And your baby. I suppose that will be after the forced sex change operation.
Mike has a writeup on this lunacy.
We really are a nation divided by IQ points.
August 9, 2009
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August 9, 2009
Continued...
For this final installation of How the Loon Terns, I'd like to very briefly address four different items of "common knowledge."
Loons are driven off lakes by boaters.
Loons use nursery pools.
Loon are "ancient birds"
"Loons winter in Mexico (or wherever)."
I've already discussed…
August 9, 2009
Well, you can do it every day, so please do it again! Thank you very much.
August 8, 2009
..... on this day in 1945.
American forces have dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in three days.
The bomb was dropped by parachute from an American B29 Bomber at 1102 local time.
It exploded about 1,625 ft (500m) above the ground and is believed to have completely…
August 8, 2009
A group of scientists, students and secularists -- 304 in all -- visited Petersburg, Kentucky on Friday to tour exhibits on display at the Creation Museum.
The visitors are in town attending a conference of the Secular Student Alliance, a group formed "to organize, unite, educate and serve…
August 8, 2009
Keith Olbermann:
Hat Tip DMB
August 8, 2009
We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic -- and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.
August 8, 2009
Hey, my BFF Analiese Miller needs you to vote for her. Go here and click on the stars down below her photo!!!
Vote early, vote often. (I think you can vote every day, starting today and for a few days.)
Trust me, she deserves this. She is an extraordinary actress. Quite good at singing and…
August 8, 2009
I wish I coulda been there ... by all accounts it sounds like the Creozerg visit to the Creation Museum went well. A couple of kids were thrown out because they said things or whatever, which is good because it shows that the whole point of the creation museum is to express, secure, and protect a…
August 8, 2009
On this day in 1974. It was Richard Nixon. I remember it like it was yesterday.
August 7, 2009
The Carnival of Evolutoin 14 is at Quintessence of Dust.
Trees, Plants and More has the Festival of the Trees #38
Carnival of the Blue #27: The Vacation Edition is at Oh, for the love of science.
August 7, 2009
Hat tip Dusty Trice
August 7, 2009
Dear MSNBC Viewer Services,
...
I normally watch MSNBC. I'm a writer and blogger, so I often have MSNBC on for a few hours during the day as I write, so I can pick up on the latest news. I love Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, and I often watch Hardball.
But, I've got to tell you this: Every…
August 7, 2009
There is a lot of discussion on the Anti-Health Teabagging Town Hall Crashing.
The Field Negro tells is "Its working!"
Just Orb asks us to Try to Remember
Related:
Evolving in Kansas: U.S. Not Tops in Health Care, Only Cost
The Lay Scientist is Drowning in Alphabet Soup: The Wider Battle for…
August 7, 2009
I have been consumed with frustration in recent days. The principal cause of this has been industrial action by an assortment of trolls who think that holding strikes for pay in a recession, thus holding commuters to ransom, is a good way to improve public relations. ... We commuters are so…
August 7, 2009
I'd like to take a moment to address some of your remarks about how the tactics of "New Atheists" are just too uncivil....
Read the rest at Crowded Head, Cozy Bed
August 7, 2009
The CreoZerg (and I'm not entirely sure what a Creo-Zerg is) is underway. PZ Myers and the atheists are moving in to the creation museum. Details here. Twittering here.
