gregladen | April 2, 2010This Month's Wikio Rankings of Top Science Blogs is as follows:
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Wired Science - Wired Blog
2
Watts Up With That?
3
Climate Progress
4
RealClimate
5
Bad Astronomy
6
Climate Audit
7
Next Generation Science
8
Respectful Insolence
9
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
10
The Frontal Cortex
11
Deltoid
12
FuturePundit
13
Gene Expression
14
Uncertain Principles
15
BPS Research Digest
16
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
17
A Blog Around The Clock
18
Greg Laden's Blog
19
TierneyLab - New York Times blog
20
Stoat
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gregladen | April 1, 2010When the science writer Simon Singh sat down to write an opinion piece on chiropractors two years ago, he could have had little inkling of the nightmare that lay ahead.
Yesterday, after a court of appeal ruling hailed as a "resounding victory" for Singh, he has been spared having to stand up in court and prove that the comments that sparked a libel suit from the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) were factually correct - an experience that the three appeal judges compared to "an Orwellian ministry of truth".
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gregladen | April 1, 2010I like this post because I'm an archaeologist: Garbage Statistics.
Be afraid of doctors in Cape Fear.
Does Domestication Produce Dummies?
gregladen | April 1, 2010And now, it is time for the April 1st edition of Four Stone Hearth, the four field Anthropological Blog Carnival.
Our first submission is from Somatosphere, a blog about Science, Medicine and Anthropology, and it is about the discover of Big Foot in the Poconos Mountains of Pennsylvania! No kidding, this time they REALLY FOUND BIG FOOT. Click here to read about bigfoot.
Our next installment is from the blog Seeing Race, and is live blog coverage of a recent investigation into the Burbank TV studio that was used in the Faking of the Apollo 11 moon Landing! Seriously! CLICK HERE
to find…
gregladen | April 1, 2010Subtitle: Republican Annoyed by Uppity Blacks with Phones
Watch and listen, and marvel at it. Marvel at the attitude of the caller, which I'm sure is fairly widespread. Marvel as well at the way the host handles the call. For which he should be fired instantly.
There was another way to handle this, of course. Let's see what Jon Stewart would have done:
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gregladen | April 1, 2010This is not only the true story of easter, but it is also a commentary on which is better, cats or dogs. Verily, many mysteries are explained in this epic documentary:
h/t: Julia
gregladen | April 1, 2010Various environmental organizations have been using imagery of dead baby birds with toothbrushes in their guts and solid floating masses of garbage to describe and raise alarm about what has become known as the North Pacific Central Garbage Patch. Yet, the small but important amount of research that has been done there shows that the NPCGP consists of many (alarmingly many) pieces of plastic that are very small, the largest being "about the size of the fingernail on your pinkey."
Albatross may or may not be affected by garbage, but it is not likely that the garbage shown in the guts of…
gregladen | April 1, 2010Have you ever watched the documentary The Corporation? If not, you must.
It is now available on YouTube and everywhere else, but as an experiment, I've embedded the Hulu version of it here:
gregladen | March 31, 2010Keep an eye out for Bond Action. Very scary stuff.
Thanks, Uncle Bob, for sending me this.
gregladen | March 31, 2010... Kevin Bales explains the business of modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that underpins some of the worst industries on earth. He shares stats and personal stories from his on-the-ground research -- and names the price of freeing every slave on earth right now.
gregladen | March 31, 2010Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India's slums by looking past the daunting statistics and focusing on treating each child as an individual.
Shukla Bose is the founder and head of the Parikrma Humanity Foundation, a nonprofit that runs four extraordinary schools for poor children.
The word "Parikrma" implies a full revolution, a complete path around -- and Shukla Bose's Parikrma Humanity Foundation offers literally that to kids in poor urban areas around Bangalore…
gregladen | March 30, 2010Today, Marcy 30th ....
Beams collided at 7 TeV in the LHC at 13:06 CEST, marking the start of the LHC research programme. Particle physicists around the world are looking forward to a potentially rich harvest of new physics as the LHC begins its first long run at an energy three and a half times higher than previously achieved at a particle accelerator.
"It's a great day to be a particle physicist," said CERN1 Director General Rolf Heuer. "A lot of people have waited a long time for this moment, but their patience and dedication is starting to pay dividends."
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gregladen | March 30, 2010NCSE's Josh Rosenau organized a Netroots Nation panel on science denial. Featured speakers: Josh, Bryan Rehm, Michael Stebbins, Mark Sumner, Susan Wood
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gregladen | March 30, 2010Supposedly:
The world's largest atom smasher has set a new record for high-energy atom collisions - with three times more force than ever before.
I had no idea it was pronounced "Kern" ... I thought it was "Sern."