Links and business

First, some important business. If you have a science post, send it to Scientia Pro Publica. . They are due NOW and, I assume owing to the beginning of the school year, there is a shortage.

Second, check this out: Something interesting happened the other day when Almost Diamonds produced this post on purity movements (or, purity as a trait of a community. For convoluted reasons, this led to two largely separate communities bumping a little into each other, which is probably a minor fender bender, but that event resulted in THIS POST at Almost Diamonds, which is a list of posts that Stephanie or I have written over the last year or so on how to ruin, or not ruin, the blogosphere.

If you are on facebook and have any (facebook) friends that are actual (meatland) friends, you better read this. Its about what looks like a very effective scam.

Is it possible that the earth can be cooling and experiencing global warming at the same time? Yes, of course. You don't have to know much about how the earth works to understand that. Or, you could be a willfully ignorant moron like this guy.

More like this

When something goes wrong we fix it, sometimes making a new rule so it does not happen again. After a while we may get a bunch of related rules and they can be, and often are, organized into a system, perhaps a paradigm, maybe a dogma, or even an -ism.
So I took The Minnesota Purity Test, and got a score that says I'm 62.1% Minnesotan.
Via Ed Brayton, more on Rick Warrens
Recently Anand posted at the Kitchen about our superstitious brain. There's more proof for that now. A recent study reported in the New Scientist has the scoop.