October 29, 2012
Teen Skephchick has just announced that they have a podcast, starting now. From Mindy:
I’m excited to announce the very first episode of the Teen Skepchick Blog Show. In this episode, Eddy, Ali, and I discuss Ali’s piece on going to college. You will, for the first time, hear my 12-year-old girl…
October 29, 2012
For most people, he's going to do it by raising your taxes. And lying.
October 28, 2012
One of the more interesting and useful individual projects I was involved in over the last year was the production of two expert panels about climate change at CONvergence 2012. The panels were moderated by Desiree Schell, recorded, and edited by KO Myers into an episode of Skeptically Speaking…
October 28, 2012
If you are in the path...the thousand mile wide path...of Hurricane Sandy, a.k.a. Frankenstorm, then you should make sure you know what the storm could do in relationship to where you are. If you are in or near an area with mountains, look for very serious flash flooding. The winds will be strong…
October 28, 2012
A wild GNU was spotted at some sort of event organized by a computer company named "Microsoft" which was launching a new version of its operating system. The GNU, accompanied by some friends carrying literature related to the widely used Unix-like operating system, GNU/Linux, did not cause any…
October 27, 2012
No relation. But anyway, he also did this:
October 27, 2012
Before I go any farther I'd like to note, with concern, that the automatic spellchecker thingie on the computer I'm using does not recognize the word Ixnay. Ameshfulsnay.
Anyway, this is fun, and important, about Ryan telling lies.
And by "fun" I meant "very disturbing." Thank you Rachel…
October 27, 2012
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson former chief of staff to Colin Powell is very blunt and candid about racism in the Republican party.
October 26, 2012
Quite a bit of detail:
October 26, 2012
Which is why I'm voting for Brian Barnes in my congressional district.
October 25, 2012
Obviously, a lot of women are going to vote for Mitt Romney. Otherwise the numbers would be way skewed. But there is this thing that any women thinking of voting for Mitt Romney should watch, a video made by some women that I think are not planning on voting for him. Check out their message. You…
October 25, 2012
Somebody asked me about colic and Chiropractic treatments. The evidence for: One or more very small studies suggest that some kids have upper spinal "damage" associated with childbirth, and some Chiropractors carried out minor "manipulation" thus reducing the colic. This evidence is very weak, as…
October 24, 2012
This is the second NOT WORK SAFE installment of one of the latest Brain Barnes for Congress Ads (Minnesota 3rd district)
October 24, 2012
I'm voting for Brian Barnes for Minnesota's third district and not only because he keeps his shirt on.
October 24, 2012
Sitting on top of enough explosive stuff to send a heavy weight into orbit at a high speed is dangerous, and that has cost lives in the space program. Re-entering the earth's atmosphere, effectively imitating a meteor as it burns up owing to the translation of the aforereferenced kinetic energy…
October 23, 2012
Are you interested in software usability and open source? If so, my friend Jim would like your help. He is doing a study of usability in Open Source software. I'll post his entire request below along with a link to his blog. Also, he'll probably be doing some other interent based interolocution…
October 23, 2012
I'll be at Mayday Books with other authors of Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories for a thing. Specifically, we'll form a panel to discuss how atheism informs our political views and activism.
The discussion will be moderated by George Kane, and the panelists include…
October 23, 2012
My friend and colleague Michael Mann just released the following information:
Lawsuit filed against The National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute 10/22/12
Today, the case of Dr. Michael E. Mann vs. The National Review and The Competitive Enterprise Institute was filed in the…
October 23, 2012
In last night’s debate, Mitt Romney said this:
“Syria is Iran’s only ally in the Arab world. It’s their route to the sea.”
This is not the first time Romney has said this. In March, he said, “Maybe one of the few bright spots in the Middle East developments in the last year has been the rising of…
October 23, 2012
Their similarity is not restricted to their inability to spell their own names!
Second ad from the Brian Barnes campaign:
October 22, 2012
Wait, did someone put in the wrong tape?
October 22, 2012
I am uncomfortable discussing ableism and related topics linked to mental illness for several reasons. One is that I don’t know enough about it to ask people to pay a lot of attention to what I have to say. Despite the whingings of my many detractors, I actually do tend to know a fair amount about…
October 22, 2012
I really dislike the commentary on Slashdot. It is worse than reddit in a way. Well, not really, but it is very annoying that an interesting question can be raised, and then seven thousand geekoids feel that it is very important for the world to read their own stupid little joke about the…
October 22, 2012
Check out this film trailer. Description below.
Wildfires in the West. "Brown-Outs" in the East. Farmers losing crops to the worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Climate change is no longer a prediction for the future, but a startling reality of today. The U.S. Pentagon believes it to be a matter…
October 22, 2012
Both parties are concerned with the problem and regardless of who is elected, they will take care of it. Because they said so.
What? Wait? I got the wrong debate? What? Damn, you mean I have to WATCH these YouTube videos I post!
October 22, 2012
This is a new ad for the Minnesota 3rd District:
October 22, 2012
Do you know the TV show Arthur? It is a very good kids show on PBS, involving anthropomorphic animals (including Arthur the Aardvark), most of whom are middle school students, who face the daily struggles of life with families, schoolyard dynamics, difficult teachers, etc., and learn lessons and…
