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I get a fairly steady stream of emails from Eruptions readers, some of which are very worth a post, but sometimes it takes me a while to get around to posting. This is my second attempt to catch up on these mailbag emails. Remember, feel free to email me questions or comments whether you want.…
PZ lays a smackdown on a neurosurgeon who is one of the Discovery Institute's 700 who are "skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life" and claims:
I am asking a simple question: show me the evidence (journal, date, page) that…
What is this strange blog that seems to like me, happy about my voice and putting me on my very own blog roll and stuff?????
Don't forget to check out the "about" page.
Someone's PR folk mailed me CARE and climate change Into Unknown Territory: The limits to adaptation and reality of loss and damage from climate impacts, and the report itself. You know what its like: the first big pic is a poor person with a baby in a dry landscape with a dead cow skeleton; the…
The one pic on that page that featured an old-aged version of Barbie was neat. I think I would actually buy one if it really existed.
You might like this too:
http://www.asofterworld.com/soft_may19_2006.htm
The Cyrillic may be beyond me but that other stuff is not so strange, its called art,PZ. Thank you for the link, some of it is actually quite good!
The original is here (a Brazilian site, so some Portuguese can help):
http://www.platinumfmd.com.br/
It says: "It's possible you won't look at my Live Journal at all, but you should stop by this page and look at every print, the most savory and creations in one place - 72 prints
and very soon now all these prints will be scattered around RU-Net (the Russian net)
warning, intense load (around 14.5 mb)
spit on the intensity: you won't be sorry
let's take a look"
Some nice stuff here - thanks for the link
Grrr ... WHY is it you can't see errors in time? Make that "the most savory creations in one place" (or "tastiest" or "sweetest" maybe?)
Beleza meu irmao... that I can understand and it also explains Darth Vader with the Portugues English dictionary. Not to mention veiwing women through from the inside of a mouth, A very Brazilian concept indeed. The verb "comer" meaning to eat in Portugues, means something else again, on the streets of Brazil. Similar though not quite the same as its interpretaion in the Anglo Saxon vernacular. Ah, translating cultural concepts is a most difficult art indeed. I don't beleive any exact science will be help of much in this department. Trust me on this one. I know because I taught ESL to Biologists in Sao Paulo...
Oops! meant to write "will be of much help" I think I need a nice cold Brahma!