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MnCSE stands for Minnesota Citizens for Science Education. If you are a Minnesotan, this will of course be of direct interest to you. If you are interested in science education issues (read: defending our children against the onslaught of the Creashunist Foes!!!1!!) then you will find it to be a…
At some point, while I was in graduate school, it became apparent that I was going to study the problem of finding one's way around. Navigation, orientation, mental maps, sense of direction, knowledge of the landscape, and related ideas must be linked to how people who live off the land survive,…
Have you been getting bitten by a lot of spiders lately? Are you concerned about Brown Recluse Spiders? Well, I know people don't like to hear this, but those spider bites you woke up with this morning were probably not spider bites. Spiders don't really bite people. Or, more accurately, if I…
I try to avoid censoring people here, and it takes some persistent nuisance value to get evicted. There are a few people, though, who really don't add any value to the site, even though they haven't done anything (yet) to warrant banning them. A reader sent me this script many of you might find…

A strange X-ray diffraction setup? Now to click on the link to see what it is ...

Dang! Gamma rays, not X-rays. No geek badge for me.

By MadScientist (not verified) on 24 Aug 2010 #permalink

(NEBob cheated by looking at the Weizmann Institute blog from RSS, hours ago)

By NewEnglandBob (not verified) on 24 Aug 2010 #permalink

What PZ looks like now?

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