December 6, 2007
Sandra,, for your enjoyment:
December 6, 2007
How sick is your sense of humor? Really sick? Good, enjoy the show....
December 6, 2007
This is a useful video to get the point of "wiki" across to, say, the students in your class or a group of coworkers who may not all be on the same page.
December 6, 2007
One of the things about doing archaeology in South Africa is that you dig these things up all the time:
(Scorpians, not meerkats)
December 6, 2007
Also known as Linnaeus' Legacy (but it occurs to me that one should avoid "'" in the title of a web blog post) is now at Laelaps, here. This is a new blog carnival, and a really good one. Enjoy!
And, if you are thinking of submitting something to this web carnival for next month, please do so, by…
December 6, 2007
PZ Myers bagged this hysterical video on the Garden of Eden's family reunion. Here. A must see.
OK, I'll see you one and raise you one:
(I never really thought about it before, but GI Joe kinda is a clothes horse, isn't he?)
December 6, 2007
And some are very very annoying. We had crazy Christians running around last year putting up anti-Evolution billboards. Now, this:
Running right through the heart of the Twin Cities is a spiritual road that dozens of evangelical churches say is specifically mentioned in the Bible as the "Way of…
December 6, 2007
But there is only room in it for Christians.
"There are some who may feel that religion is not a matter to be seriously considered in the context of the weighty threats that face us. If so, they are at odds with the nation's founders.... In John Adams' words: 'We have no government armed with power…
December 6, 2007
Plocepasser mahali (subspecies stentor?) and friends. Kalahari, South Africa.
December 6, 2007
Conservative Radio Talk Show Host Michael Savage is suing the Council on American-Islamic Relations for using a 4-minute bit of his show "The Savage Nation" to raise awareness of his conservative politics among potential advertisers. Savaged called the Queran "a throwback document" and a "book of…
December 6, 2007
The Testimonial:
I have been abducted by aliens for years... the Thought Screen Helmet, invented by an expert, has stopped the unwelcome visitations and has raised me and my family`s quality of life. Therefore I highly recommend it.
The Product:
From Geekology
December 6, 2007
Better than what you may ask? Better than:
-Older versions of LInux ... it is always improving.
-Windows. Hands down.
-Apple's operating system before Apple chose, essentially, Linux (a Unix variant) to run its eye candy and development environment on
But why, specifically, is it better?
One…
December 6, 2007
Hey, there's a fight over at Sandwalk. PZ and Larry are going at it as to how good, or bad, this video is:
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I'm on the fence. I think it is not true that all genes are switches. Some of them code for structural proteins, for instance. Thousands of genes code for neurotransmitters…
December 6, 2007
From Science Notes, from the continuing series "Why do people laugh at creationists" ... This is installment number six.
December 6, 2007
Brian Larnder, bless his soul, has written an overview (maybe a book review) of Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement
From Brian:
... the concept of eugenics found a very welcome home among the christian faithful of the day from the late 19th Century through…
December 5, 2007
Go Green! Homemade Diesel - video powered by Metacafe
[hat tip: Curiosity]
December 5, 2007
Totally Stolen from Spewing Truth
December 5, 2007
Certain ceremonial objects from the Dogon and other cultures of West Africa are known for their dark patina. There is plenty of ethnological evidence that the thick coating on these wood sculptures, which are often in human or animal shapes, contains blood from animals sacrificed as part of the…
December 5, 2007
A court on Wednesday awarded $11,000 to a woman who said she woke up during major abdominal surgery but was unable to tell doctors she was in terrible pain. ... The 62-year-old retiree in the southern Austrian province of Carinthia had demanded more than $57,000 in compensation for mental and…
December 5, 2007
Legendary designer Philippe Starck -- with no pretty slides behind him -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question "Why design?" Along the way he drops brilliant insights into the human condition; listen carefully for one perfectly crystallized mantra for all of us, genius or…
December 5, 2007
Eugenics in History and the Bible
I'm getting sick of the constant shrill coming out of the Discovery Institute trying to link "Darwinism" with eugenics. The creationists love to claim that such an idea could never have existed before Darwin came up with the idea of natural selection, but that is…
December 5, 2007
The African Buffalo is NOT a bison, and it is NOT a "water buffalo" (it is not even the same genus as water buffalo). But like these other beasts, it is a kind of cattle.
The scientific name of the African Buffalo, or Cape Buffalo, is Syncerus caffir. Only the most cynical taxonomists would…
December 5, 2007
Corn (maize) was domesticated in the earlier part of the Holocene in Mexico from a wild plant called teosinte. Subsequent to the discovery of this area of origin by MacNeish, a great deal of research has gone on to track the spread of maize across the New World, its diversification, its effects on…
December 5, 2007
The flagellum is said to possess "irreducible complexity," meaning it could not have been produced by evolution. This argues for an outside intelligent designer operating beyond the laws of nature.
From Conservapedia.
December 5, 2007
From Blogfish: Blue Crabs are Disappearing from Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay's famous blue crabs -- feisty crustaceans that are both a regional symbol and a multimillion-dollar catch -- are hovering at historically low population levels, scientists say, as pollution, climate change and…
December 5, 2007
National Geographic has a new project called Dino Death Trap. This is a movie due to be released on December 9th, straring the Junggar Basin of western China known as "The Pit of Death" is found.
Don't miss it.
In the mean time, you can go here and there is a live web cam in Central Park…
