May 29, 2009
The I and the Bird Carnival is now soaring at Living the Scientific Life. Please visit I and the Bird, 101th
The Carnival of Space 104.5 has launched at the Bat Page.
May 28, 2009
NASA researchers is now reporting in the May 21st issue of Nature that water could remain liquid at sub-freezing temperatures if made stable against freezing by containing dissolved minerals. From the abstract:
Many features of the Martian landscape are thought to have been formed by liquid water…
May 28, 2009
... At our co-opted thread, here. Please join us if you are in the Twin Cities.
May 28, 2009
Rhoda nearly dropped out from school in 2005 as her friends used to laugh at her in class due to her poor performance. Most of the days, Rhoda could not do her home work because she had no time, as she spent most of her afternoons helping her mother fetch water.
"Now that there is a borehole in my…
May 28, 2009
Last time I looked here, there was a content, but small and thinly scattered group of chimpanzees. Then there was a big noise last night and this morning an entirely new troop has arrived at this location on the internet and taken over! On further inspection, it turns out to be Doc Bushwell, Jim…
May 28, 2009
This is a repost of a review that is timely, given this week's focus on setting up your Linux server and changing all your computers over to Linux and so on.
For the most part, computer operating systems all have a "shell." When people talk about the "command line" ... they are talking about the…
May 28, 2009
How to knock out your children: Use PediSedate.
PediSedate is a medical device consisting of a colorful, toy-like headset that connects to a game component such as the Nintendo Game Boy system or a portable CD player. Once the child places it on his or her head and swings the snorkel down from…
May 28, 2009
Diarrhea: The Unfashionable Disease
Ever hear about the World Concert for Diarrhea? Or the Celebrity Chefs Fundraiser for Diarrhea? Diarrhea just isn't a disease that gets rallied for. It's hard to understand that diarrhea can kill you. In the USA, it is an inconvenience. In developing countries,…
May 28, 2009
"When I first looked at it I wasn't sure, but when I moved it away from me it started coming out. I thought Christ, yeah, she's right - that's the image of Jesus.
"The kids are still eating it, but we kept the lid."
source
hat tip: Iain Davidson
May 28, 2009
Catholics are trained to steal away into closets or back rooms with any babies that happen to be left around, so they can be secretly baptized. You did know this, right? It is true. If you take your baby to a day care provider, check on this first. If you suspect there are Catholics working…
May 28, 2009
... during its design ... the ship became known as "Godzilla-maru", so unusual and top-heavy were its projected lines.
"We started planning the Chikyu about 15 years ago, and there were some people who thought we were too ambitious," he recalled.
"But now we can see that the ship is doing what it…
May 27, 2009
A person once told me that I was exactly the same thing as Adolph Hitler. That was a crazy person who also thought that I had special x-ray vision enabling me to see deep into the earth. But no one has ever. ever called me Osama Greg Laden....
.... until now.
May 27, 2009
Why would you want to install Ubuntu as a "server" rather than as a desktop? The simple answer is: If you need to ask, you don't want to do it. But, there is a more nuanced answer as well: By installing a server, you get to a) have loads of fun installing a server; b) learn things about the…
May 27, 2009
Regarding home schooling mom Vanessa Mills, of Wake County, NC, USA:
...Mills ... grew alienated from her husband and parents after joining a religious group that some former members call a cult, the judge in the case said Tuesday...
...Judge Ned Mangum ruled March 6 that it would be in the best…
May 27, 2009
Eugenie Scott, head of the National Center for Science Education, has been awarded the Stephen Jay Gould Prize. From the press release:
OAKLAND, CA March 27
The Society for the Study of Evolution has honored NCSE's executive director with its first Stephen Jay Gould Prize. Named in memory of…
May 27, 2009
Two years ago, I attended my best friend's wedding. I made the cake. When I got married a year earlier, she was my best man. Last Sunday, a bunch of people were going on and on about my cakes (I make about one every two years but they are very famous and frightfully expensive) and this reminded me…
May 27, 2009
This just in:
Dear Greg,
We are excited about our new public service campaign and it should be fully implemented within a month. Here's the scoop:
This Thursday, May 28th, we will be at a local high school to
tape 3 presentations that will cover the following topics:
- Fossil Evidence
- The…
May 26, 2009
But it would be a cool name for one. No, it's a Sci Fi book just out. I've met the author, and I assure you he's the kind of guy who would write good book. As they say. Check it out.
May 26, 2009
France's Church of Scientology today went on trial on charges of organised fraud in a case that could lead to the nationwide dissolution of the controversial organisation.
The Church's "celebrity centre" spiritual association and its Scientology Freedom Space bookshop in Paris stand accused of…
May 26, 2009
It is funny how people play with history. If we talk about an important "first" that is viewed in a positive light ... the origin of beer for instance ... the slightest evidence will be used by the people of a given region to claim primacy. Also, since Africa almost always gets the shaft in this…
May 26, 2009
Have you been reading Digital Rabbit? Please add this site that addresses safe drinking water and basic sanitation to your list of links to check or your RSS feed.
And, have a look at the Q-Drum, which is profiled at DR.
May 26, 2009
... with respect to commenting on this blog. Let me know if you have any problems.
... And I'm back in Minnesota after a brief trip. Details at 11.
May 24, 2009
For the time being, I will be blogging here, on my own blog, and of course, as Quiche Moraine. Please drop over. Not that there is a lot going on now, but it looks like it is going to be a while before this strange commenting problem is fixed.
May 24, 2009
One of the things that struck me in travels through Scotland and the Canadian Maritimes was the monument in every town. Most of them were tiny, just a handful of names from each war-not because few died, but because the town was that small. The memorial at Edinburgh Castle, on the other hand, is of…
May 24, 2009
Junk DNA is like bigfoot. If a zoologist says something like "Hmmm... it would be cool to find bigfoot" all the other zoologists jump on him or her, drag the poor sap into the alleyway, toss on a blanket, and beat the scientist with rubber hoses until the movement stops. Same with junk DNA. If…
May 24, 2009
You have noticed, no doubt, that the latest and most common banner ads on Scienceblogs are for Americanchemistry.com, a blogospheric entity representing a handful of Chemistry special interest organizations. ("Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible." and all that.) Which is fine, who…
May 24, 2009
Something is wrong with my site. Comments appear to be totally screwed up. This situation started on Friday, and I informed Scienceblogs Central of this. Since then I've been off the internet, wandering through the wilderness in the Great American Southwest. The tech people are aware of this,…
May 24, 2009
hat tip Bora, where you can find more.
May 23, 2009
One item is just published in the Journal of Climate. Simply put, the use of some very sophisticated and probably quite trustworthy models suggests that extratropical cyclones (so this means winter storms and such, mainly) will have a good deal more precipitation in them.
In the model ...
...…
