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Happy Wednesday. Links for you. Science: Genetic Genealogy and the Single Segment Fungi Developed to Fight Malaria in Mosquitoes What a real astrobiologist at NASA has to say You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential Other: Why employee pensions aren't…
This segment from Letterman is from back in April, but given the word that John Holdren, former AAAS head, will be running Barack Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy (i.e., serving as chief science adviser to the president), it's worth a replay. This is a man who will be repeatedly…
There's a kerfuffle under way in which Jerry Coyne, PZ Myers, Richard Hoppe, and a host of others are debating whether NCSE is too nice to theists. Since I work for NCSE, I'm trying to stay out of this, and my comments about NCSE will be based on publicly available information, not any internal…
Links for you. Science: Why is Anthropogenic Global Warming Denialism Important? Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward 100 Years of IBM in Pictures The Intelligence of Beasts: Cognition researchers move past 'chimpocentric' theories, raising new questions about human uniqueness…