July 14, 2008
Darwin and Wallace, chillin' Let's talk about Darwin and Wallace's joint presentation on Natural Selection in 1858.
It is not usually the case that I write a blog post for a carnival. I usually just write for the blog, then now and then sit down and figure out which posts should go to with…
July 14, 2008
The Giant's Shoulders is a web carnival highlighting classic papers in science. Or people or concepts. Go here to get the details.
THe first deadline is Midnight EDT on July 15th (tomorrow)
The first edition will be hosted at A Blog Around the Clock. Send your entries to Coturnix!!!
As for me,…
July 14, 2008
... And so far, to my knowledge, there has been no commentary by the Catholic League condemning these threats.
For example:
You have two choices my fucked up friend, first you can quit your job for the good of the
children. Or you can get your brains beat in....I give you till the first of the…
July 13, 2008
Over the last couple of weeks, I've installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron (the most current version), which comes with Firefox 3.0, on a couple of machines. My most recent effort has left me wondering what could be so terribly wrong with this picture. On one of these computers, it is impossible to open…
July 13, 2008
Louis Pasteur's research led to the advancement of the still accepted Germ Theory. He created the first vaccine for rabies. One of the key figures in the development of the field of microbiology, Pasteur invented the technique of food processing known today as pasteurization, whereby liquids…
July 13, 2008
It has become axiomatic that the use of adornment by humans is some sort of symbolic act, and thus is linked to the human symbolic and linguistic mind. The human symbolic and linguistic mind is the trait that we axiomatically believe to be the derived human feature ... the cladistic apomorphy that…
July 13, 2008
... As Homer Simpson once said: "Where's the 'anykey'"...
The title of this post is an actual error message spotted on, I presume, a Windows computer. Another:
"You lied to me when you told me this was a program"
or how about:
That makes 100 errors; please try again.
Or this:
Maybe you should…
July 12, 2008
From the NCSE:
Senate Bill 733, signed by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal on June 25, continues to draw criticism from scientists and political observers across the political spectrum.
In the New Scientist, Amanda Gefter reports (July 9, 2008), "The new legislation is the latest manoeuvre in a…
July 12, 2008
From the NCSE:
As reported in last week's Evolution Education Update, Chris Comer, the Director of Science at the Texas Education Agency (TEA) who was forced to resign over a dispute involving intelligent design, filed suit in federal court, seeking an injunction against TEA's "policy of…
July 12, 2008
Joe died yesterday.
Joe Barr (October 19, 1944 - July 11, 2008) was an editor and writer for the SourceForge sites Linux.com and IT Manager's Journal.
A former programmer, Barr had worked on everything from microcomputers like the TRS-80 Model I to IBM mainframes with acres of DASD, writing code in…
July 12, 2008
"At a contentious public meeting in Mount Vernon, Ohio, the district school board scheduled a hearing on whether to fire teacher John Freshwater. Freshwater has been accused of teaching intelligent design in his biology classes, and of using a piece of lab equipment to brand a cross on a student's…
July 11, 2008
I would like to take a moment to examine Catholic League president Bill Donohue's statement regarding PZ. (Details of the CL's attack on PZ Myers here) Here is the statement:
"The Myers blog can be accessed from the university's website. The university has a policy statement on this issue which…
July 11, 2008
To the Blogs!!! .... To the Blogs!!!!
Go here, do the right thing.
July 11, 2008
... Or just some kind of odd Internet Shenanigans.
It turns out that if there is an organized effort to bias the discussion, it may be coming from the usual place ... the trolls...
As I've been following the new energy blog on Sb, something seemed odd. Tiny pieces of evidence filtered together…
July 10, 2008
Wild game is good. More wild game and fewer cattle, in some habitats, would better. But when wild game is extracted en masse from a wild area (usually a rain forest, usually in Africa) and shipped to a city, or an enclave of logger's camps, or overseas to nostalgic African populations in Europe,…
July 10, 2008
Sizzle
Randy Olson is a Harvard ('84) trained marine biologist with field experience on the Great Barrier Reef, in the Antarctic, the US Virgin Islands, and elsewhere. He even spent a little time with Jacques Cousteau.
But an extensive career in marine biology was not to be.
Randy started…
July 10, 2008
Well, I can't answer that question. But in a related matter, Koelsch et al. ask, in a new paper published in PLoS ONE, Why Musicians Make Us Weep and Computers Don't? ... obviously, they have not met my computer.
The study investigates the somatic effects of "...unexpected chords of piano…
July 10, 2008
We made this site to spread the word about our effort to combat Creationism in Louisianan Schools.
You may be aware that yesterday(June 28) Governor Jindal signed bill 733 into effect. This bill will allow Creationist material, specifically from the Discovery Institute, to be used in classrooms to…
July 10, 2008
This article in PLoS Medicine investigates the difference between modern multi-drug treatment with individuals monitoring of patients in a developed country (Switzerland) with similar treatments using a different, non-individualized "public health" approach in South Africa, to see if there is any…
July 9, 2008
p>Welcome to the One Hundred and Ninth Edition of The Tangled Bank, the Weblog Carnival of Evolutionary Biology. This is the LOL edition of the Tangled Bank....
Carnival business ...
The main page for The Tangled Bank is here. The previous edition of The Tangled Bank was here, at Wheatdogg…
July 9, 2008
Apropos this and this, I give you this:
July 9, 2008
Welcome to the One Hundred and Ninth Edition of The Tangled Bank, the Weblog Carnival of Evolutionary Biology. This is the LOL edition of the Tangled Bank....
Carnival business ...
The main page for The Tangled Bank is here. The previous edition of The Tangled Bank was here, at Wheatdogg, and the…
July 9, 2008
I had promised a little more info on Scientific Linux. This is a form of Linux with a name that changes faster than my shirt when I realize I've got it on inside out. Form the Fermi LInux site:
Fermi Linux is the generic name for linux distributions that are created and used at Fermi National…
July 9, 2008
Consider this question:
Our oil supplies are down. And with rising concerns of global food supplies, the loudly touted ethanol now seems to be a no-go, too. So, in the coming years, what do you think will become the world's most viable alternative energy solution?
Me? I question the premise. It…
July 9, 2008
Hourglass: A carnival of biogerontology
Carnival of the Blue is Here!
Welcome to the Green Travel Carnival.
Welcome to the Green Travel Carnival.
Linnaeus' Legacy #9 - Classifying the Classifiers
Grand Rounds, Vol 4, No 42 - The Seinfeld Edition
A virtual carnival of science: New and Exciting…
July 8, 2008
Do not look at his unless you've been baptized. Oh shit, too late. There are a lot of Christians that I trust, and love. But that is because of who they are. If I just know that someone is a Christian, especially if they are the sort of person to wear their Christianity on their sleeve,…
July 8, 2008
Ed Brayton (Dispatches form the Culture Wars) has this post with a video you should watch.
I have two reactions to this. First, it is absolutely fascinating to contemplate the change (assuming this guy, in the video, is accurate) in attitude i Britain, and the post-game analysis ... the extension…
July 8, 2008
A dead Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans drowned on a longline. Photo by Graham Robertson/Australian Antarctic Division From Birdlife International:
BirdLife International presented the European Parliament with alarming data about the extent of seabird bycatch globally and in Europe…
