clock | September 30, 2006Kip Hawley is an idiot
Kip Hawley is an idiot
Kip Hawley is an idiot
Kip Hawley is an idiot
Kip Hawley is an idiot
Kip Hawley is an idiot
Kip Hawley is an idiot
Kip Hawley is an idiot
Kip Hawley is an idiot
Kip Hawley is an idiot
...Just sayin'....
clock | September 30, 2006I am not dead and gone, taken away in the middle of the night (yet). I am just working on two carnivals - Tar Heel Tavern and the Teaching Carnival, both of which will air somewhere around here at some time tomorrow.
clock | September 29, 2006Multitasking Is No Problem, But Double Talk Overwhelms Us:
We can listen to a car radio and drive while keeping an eye on changing traffic conditions -- separate complex tasks completed without much trouble. But if two people are talking to us at the same time, our perceptual frequencies get jammed.
Tarantulas Produce Silk From Their Feet:
Researchers have found for the first time that tarantulas can produce silk from their feet as well as their spinnerets, a discovery with profound implications for why spiders began to spin silk in the first place.
Dinosaurs' Climate Shifted Too, Reports…
clock | September 29, 2006Sorry, no Friday Weird Sex Blogging today - as I am feeling quite impotent today, now that I know that I cannot see my lawyer if they come at night and take me away, and neither Congress nor Court has any say about it.
clock | September 29, 2006Here is another example of a person who has experienced dictatorship first hand and has decided that last night was the breaking point.
I am not the only one.
Hat-tip: Dr.B
clock | September 29, 2006Thanks to Avedon, Mike, Mike, Melissa, Lindsay, Zuzu, John, John, Ekzept, Caitlin and a miniscule rightwing blog that called it "Left Wing Hysteria", for linking to my morning post (and whoever put it on Redditt). They have more links and comments. Also check what their commenters say. Stay informed.
Update: More Good Links:
Sen.John Edwards
HillWilliam
Start The Revolution
Greenbelt
Bee Policy
Expert Opinion
Crooked Timber
Obsidian Wings
Obsidian Wings
Obsidian Wings
Unqualified Offerings
Unqualified Offerings
Unqualified Offerings
John Scalzi
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn…
clock | September 29, 2006This is so old (December 03, 2004) and so long that I did not even bother to re-read it or check the the links. I am sure the commenters will draw attention to everything that is wrong in this post...
First, here is some science, or really problems with science policy, or better still, some top-down nonsense:
Two Must Reads
http://www.chriscmooney.com/blog.asp?Id=1425
What women are supposed to want
http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/what_women_are_supposed_to_want/
On the other hand, for some nice science, the new Tangled Bank is now online:
http://penn.typepad.com/penn/2004/11/…
clock | September 29, 2006Many of my friends and neighbors don't want to talk about politics because it is boring and "same-old-same-old".
Connect this and this.
Many of my friends and neighbors don't follow the news or care to vote because "all of them are the same".
Connect this and this.
Many of my friends and neighbors enjoy life every day, as if it will always be peace and prosperity.
Connect this and this.
Many of my friends and neighbors have no clue that today USA ceased to be a democracy. They do not realize that Congress and Courts do not have any power to stop Bush from doing whatever he wants. He never…
clock | September 29, 2006Revere has an update on the campaign to free the Tripoli Six.
Declan Butler is keeping up with the news on his blog and collecting blog responses on Connotea.
Injection is a documentary film about this case. You can see the trailer or download the whole movie. Then, blog about it. And urge your readers to use this mailing list to put pressure on the Libyan government.
clock | September 28, 2006If you decide to post about the 2007 Triangle Science Blogging Conference please tag your posts with this Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
clock | September 28, 2006The third edition of Panta Rei, the physics blog carnival focusing on heat and flow, is up on Nonoscience.
clock | September 28, 200636th Philosophers' Carnival: Tzadikim Edition is up on What is it like to be a blog.
Carnivalesque XVIII is up on Blogenspiel.
clock | September 28, 2006Target: Leftist Groups:
In addition to the nebulous definition of "enemy combatant," so too is the definition of "leftist group" entirely vague. Does a blog community qualify as a leftist group? Are only groups that have the means and intent to organize going to be targets of scrutiny? Does organizing a peace protest qualify? Is wielding a "leftist" idea going to be considered as hostile to the United States as wielding a weapon?
clock | September 28, 2006...are you a citizen journalist or just a blogger?
Depending on one's definition of "journalist", I guess.
Is a professional (i.e., someone paid by a news organization) who publishes in newspapers a journalist no matter what s/he is writing, i.e., publishing just anything: ads, horoscopes, comics, crosswords, Ask Sadie, op-eds, etc? If so, bloggers are journalists.
If the word is restricted to a person who uncovers new information and writes articles for the news pages only, than most of us (but not all) are NOT journalists.
clock | September 28, 2006Beauty And The Brain:
Experiments led by Piotr Winkielman, of the University of California, San Diego, and published in the current issue of Psychological Science, suggest that judgments of attractiveness depend on mental processing ease, or being "easy on the mind."
"What you like is a function of what your mind has been trained on," Winkielman said. "A stimulus becomes attractive if it falls into the average of what you've seen and is therefore simple for your brain to process. In our experiments, we show that we can make an arbitrary pattern likeable just by preparing the mind to recognize…
clock | September 28, 2006First posted on December 12, 2005 on Science And Politics, then re-posted on January 16, 2006 on The Magic School Bus and most definitely worth reposting again here...
The new article on PLoS, Evolution for Everyone: How to Increase Acceptance of, Interest in, and Knowledge about Evolution by David Sloan Wilson, describes a successful experiment of teaching evolution to a broad segment of the student population at Bighampton College (the paper looks nicer in PDF format).
Here are just a couple of snippets:
The main problem with accepting evolution involves implications, not facts.…
clock | September 28, 2006If so, do you care, and if you do, what can you do to stop them?
Open Switch, Billy the Blogging Poet and Robert Scoble and their commenters chime in on Internet copyright, Creative Commons and splogs.
clock | September 28, 2006Some weeks, I skim through The Raleigh Independent and nothing catches my interest. Other weeks, I find it chockful of interesting stuff - some of if quite bloggable. This week's issue is one of those.
This article about legal steps same-sex couples can take to get protections similar to heterosexual marriages is quite useful and informative. It is also cool it mentions Pam Spaulding and her blog.
In the same issue, an article, Family Values?, looks at another angle - the plight of straight people devastated by the coming-out-of-closet by their spouses who, due to religious upbringing, got…
clock | September 28, 2006What Would Real Election Integrity Mean?
The repeated use of the Illegal Immigrant frame activates deep frames related to police protection from a criminal threat. In such a law and order frame, progressives who oppose the House bill are characterized as failing to protect the citizenry from criminals. Moreover, progressives may be painted as corrupt, seeking to win the votes of such criminals at the expense of their legitimate constituents.
Thinking Points, new Lakoff's book, is now out. You can preview and order it on the Rockridge Institute website, where you can also download Chapter1 and…