gregladen | February 5, 2010There is a certain religion in which a man utters the same prayer every morning on waking. He says "Thank you god, that I was not born a woman."
That sounds really bad. But then you read this and it all makes sense: What pregnant women won't tell you. Ever.
gregladen | February 5, 2010Journal Retracts Study Backing Vaccine-Autism Link
Narcotic Therapy Contracts
Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies
gregladen | February 5, 2010Be aware: The USPTO will no longer accept USD (up-side-down) faxes. You are now informed.
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gregladen | February 5, 2010The world's highest energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will run at half its maximum energy through 2011 and likely not at all in 2012. Officials at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, had previously planned to run the gargantuan accelerator at 70% of maximum energy this year.
The change raises hopes at the LHC's lower-energy rival, the Tevatron Collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, of being extended through 2012 instead of being shut down next year.
Read the rest here.
gregladen | February 4, 2010Stellarium is a realistic looking, feature rich OpenSource planetarium. The default catalog has over one half million stars, but you can get an extended catalog with over 200 million stars. All the usual information you expect in a planetarium is available. For the most part, navigation of the image can be done easily with a mouse or using the keyboard. The software takes over the GUI (like some games do). It can project (via a projector, I assume) for use in an actual planetarium or be used on your computer screen. You can get plugins for artificial satellite tracks and to interface…
gregladen | February 4, 2010The real conversion is the one that happens under your eyes...
Hat Tip Julia
gregladen | February 4, 2010 In a recent post, I earned the ire of many poorly informed denialist football fans when I noted an obvious fact: The strategy used by the New Orleans Saints to win the playoff game with the much more deserving Minnesota Vikings, which involved trying as hard as possible to knock the Quarterback out of the game, was unethical, unusual, and intentional. Despite the protestations of commenters on this blog post, numerous sports experts have joined me in this assertion.
For example, Joe Theisman: "Ive been out of the game some 25 years. So, if you take approximately 40 years of professional…
gregladen | February 4, 2010Somebody is making fun of everybody: Things I Have Learned From Blogging at Science Blogs, Part I
Bad news: Why the denial camp is winning (and we're all losing) the climate wars
But then again: Rush Limbaugh: How the existence of god disproves climate change
gregladen | February 4, 2010Ten American missionaries are charged in Haiti with child kidnapping and conspiracy. There are no accurate details of what happened, but it appears that the missionaries may have been trying to bring 30 or more kinds into some American based adoption system in a manner that was not in accord with Haitian law.
Until further details are available, you might as well read up on missionaries.
gregladen | February 4, 2010
FROM OPEN FLAMES TO SOUS VIDE: The History Of Cooking in Five Courses
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 7 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m.
Cost $50. Reservations required. Call 612-624-9050
Join Chef Chris Olson and local experts on an exploration of the evolution of cooking in five delicious courses. With the Bell Museum's wildlife dioramas as a backdrop, Olson, cook at St. Paul-based Meritage and co-creator of Paired, will take diners on a culinary journey through the ages, from the invention of fire to the scientific approach to food through molecular gastronomy. Biological anthropologist Greg Laden…
gregladen | February 3, 2010All human utterances are subject to question. All communications are subject to measurement against a standard that may not have been on the mind of the speaker. ... There is a place where combative communication is favored, revered, honed and practiced, and imposed by force of will and repetition on those who do not come to the table armed with snark and clothed in oppositional affect.
That place is known ... as ... the blogosphere.
Click Here to Read On.
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gregladen | February 3, 2010I'm sure the iPad is going to be a very successful product. I predict most people who get one will be using it like people now use a Kindle, but with multi media.
But in the mean time, it is fun to make fun of it. And if you want to do that ....
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gregladen | February 3, 2010A cat with an uncanny ability to detect when nursing home patients are about to die has proven itself in around 50 cases by curling up with them in their final hours, according to a new book.
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gregladen | February 2, 2010Let's go visit the Twin Cities Creation Science Science Fair at Har Mar Mall on Feb 13.
We'd meet up at the local bookstore cafe in the mall around 10:30 to 11 or so, visit the science fair exhibits and look around, then around 12:30 to 1:00 we'll have lunch.
There is a facebook event. (Check my facebook wall. If you are not my facebook friend, why not? If you are not a member of facebook, HELP GET ME OUT OF HERE.... but you can come anyway. Har Mar Mall. If you don't know what or where that is then you are probably not from the Twin Cities. But if you are from the twin cities and want…
gregladen | February 1, 2010The following is a subset of the ideas for science fair projects found on this science fair site.
For each project, your assignment is to come up with an experiment that would test the idea.
Make a computer model of the Flood currents.
Statistical occurrence of giants, and midgets and dwarfs and giantism. Use Princess Flo, Goliath, and brothers.
Does Tanning leather affect C14 content and date?
How much voltage or current can a human take before he is killed? ...
How much electricity does an eel put out?
What was life like before the Flood?
Trilobites prove Noah's flood because they are…