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January 8, 2007
This has been doing the rounds but I thought I'd link to it in any case. In January 1995, Internet World published its "Best and Worst of 1994" along with predictions for 1995. You can read the article here. If you remember Canter & Siegel, Gopher, setting up SLIP, alt.rec.somethingorother,…
January 7, 2007
On this day in 1823, Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of natural selection, was born in Usk, Wales. He died in 1913.
January 7, 2007
Over at his blog, Jim Lippard has just completed his series of ten posts examining the finances of a number of creationist organizations: Answers in Genesis, Institute for Creation Research, Access
Research Network, the Creation Evidence Museum, Creation Illustrated Ministries, Creation Moments,…
January 7, 2007
This strange gelatinous ball - approximately 20 inches in diameter - was seen in the ocean off Norway last October. Apparently, it has been identified as a squid egg sack.
And this may be the only post about squid I have ever made. Blame my recent encounter with PZ.
January 7, 2007
Apologies for being MIA over the past day - the hotel's wifi was acting up and I basically decided to go a day without connectivity. I'm now happily at home after thoroughly enjoying my SICB experience - science, beer, and discussion makes for a good four days. I'll hopefully get some more SICB-…
January 5, 2007
We had out meetup this evening and it was fun. A special shout-out has to go to Bruce Thompson for driving 90 minutes to get here (and thus 90 minutes back) and regaling us with stories of flying fast and low over the ground.
PZ or GrrlScientist may have photos later ...
January 5, 2007
A year ago (at this exact time - 7:15 EST) I started here at Scienceblogs with a post on "Lawyers and Evolution". After over 600 posts and 2000+ comments, I'm still having fun. Thanks to all my readers over the past year.
(All going well, I'll be in a bar in Phoenix with PZ, Grrl Scientist and our…
January 5, 2007
One of the thinks that surprised me when I first started attending history of science conferences was how many (virtually all) presenters just stand up and read a paper. No visuals. Nothing. Sort of boring. I used to therefore think that in general, scientists were better communicators (at least to…
January 5, 2007
After an early night, I awoke to an unusually dark and cloudy (and cold .. .only 50 degrees) Phoenix. I blame the out-of-towners for ruining our perfectly good weather!
This morning it's a toss-up between Key Transitions in Evolution and Evolutionary Morphology. The former wins. Highlight of the…
January 5, 2007
The Thought Fox
I imagine this midnight moment's forest:
Something else is alive
Besides the clock's loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.
Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness:
Cold, delicately as the dark…
January 4, 2007
So overall I think the workshop on blogging went well. Turnout was, apparently, as expected and we answered questions for just under two hours. All in all, a good experience. Tomorrow we have the meetup in the evening and, eh yeah, some science.
January 4, 2007
SICB (pronounced 'sick-bee') is certainly a smorgasbord of science and it is somewhat difficult to decide which sessions and/or talks to attend. I had originally intended spending the day with the Linking Genes with Morphology in Vertebrates symposium, but a combination of factors had me instead…
January 3, 2007
Apparently people were picking on me for not turning up on time. A slacker, they called me. Bah, humbug - I was only spending time with my family.
That aside, I spent the evening with Grrl and PZ catching up, drinking beer, talking blogging, evodevo, loris, evolution and other stuff.
Science…
January 2, 2007
As PZ announced earlier today (as did GrrlScientist), we've firmed up our meetup plans for the SICB conference.
Friday 6th around 6pm, we'll be meeting at Seamus McCaffreys fairly close to the conference hotel. Contrary to PZ's suggestion, I wont be forcing anyone to drink Guinness (the drink is…
January 1, 2007
OK, so Michigan lost to a team that itself lost to UCLA and Oregon State. Unsurprisingly, Dwayne Jarrett showed himself to be a classless TO-wannabe. But what about Boise State? 43-42 over Oklahoma in overtime to go unbeaten. Classic, just classic.
January 1, 2007
This is almost too funny to be true. From the mind of Michael Westfall:
Today the use of personal computers is one of the fastest growing areas of mass communication. This technology can be used for the good of humanity or in some cases small-minded warped individuals endeavor to use it to debase…
January 1, 2007
In the shadow of The Year in ID, Dembski gives us his predictions for ID in 2007. Three simple things:
A new ID friendly research center at a major university. (This is not merely an idle wish -- stay tuned.) [Prediction by me: This will be at Baylor and no biology will be involved.]
The…
January 1, 2007
What is this mystery beast captured on film in Kayan Mentarang National Park, East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2003? Initial claims were that it was a new species
of carnivore. But is there evidence for this claim?
Initial discussions centered on whether the specimen was a viverrid of some kind (e.g…
December 31, 2006
"Spc. Dustin R. Donica, 22, of Spring, Texas, was killed Thursday [December 28th] by small arms fire in Baghdad, the Defense Department said." (source)
December 31, 2006
Real headlines:
AP poll: Americans optimistic for 2007
Poll: Americans see gloom, doom in 2007
... and these are talking about the the same AP-AOL News poll.
December 30, 2006
This is kind of cool - pool shots in slow motion with thermal imaging.
(Seen on fark.com)
December 30, 2006
Noticed a few hits from FreeRepublic.com this morning as someone called "truthfinder9" had linked to my post about Ken Ham and AiG revenue. Here is a highlight:
truthfinder9
I noticed the miltant YECs over at AIG have stepped up their unchristian attacks on other Christians. I wonder if their…
December 29, 2006
The November 30th edition of the London Review of Books has a review by John Whitfield of Burt & Trivers' Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements (which has been on my shelf unread for awhile now). Here's a nice quote:
[R]eading [the book] did help me work out why…
December 29, 2006
Back in March, I noted that creationism was a profitable business ... at least for Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis who had a salary of $121,764 for 2004. Now Jim Lippard is reporting that Ham has taken a pay-cut and only made $60,000 in 2005. Poor, poor Ken ... must be rough surviving in a state…
December 29, 2006
Over at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish has a great series of photos of a golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) taking on a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) over a carcase.
December 29, 2006
AP is reporting that Saddam Hussein will be executed by 10pm EST. No doubt it will bring a smile to Bush, but it is difficult to see how the hanging will make any difference to what is occurring in Iraq. And it certainly wont bring to account those responsible for the WTC attack.
December 29, 2006
An AP-AOL News poll has revealed that Bush is both the greatest "villain" and "hero" of 2006.
When asked to name the past year's biggest villain, Bush was far and away the #1 choice, commanding 25% of the vote, distantly trailed by Osama Bin Laden (8%), Saddam Hussein (6%), President Mahmoud…
December 29, 2006
I've noted before that the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) will be meeting in Phoenix next week and also that PZ, Grrl Scientist, and I will be participating in a media workshop on blogging. We've decided that this might also be a nice opportunity for Scienceblogs readers to…
December 29, 2006
Memento
And you are waiting, expecting that one thing,
which infinitely enriches your life;
the mighty, tremendous,
the awakening of the stones,
depths, turned to you.
Dawning in the bookshelves
are volumes in gold and brown;
and you think of encompassed lands
of images, of the…