One entry in the carnival roundup for today:
Otherwise, I'm running about in Minneapolis, paying another visit to the airport and going to a meeting at UMTC, so talk among yourselves. I'll be back later.
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I just got the program for the event at the Bell Museum tomorrow. If you are inspired and want to show up, you can register at the door ($10) and get in.
Science Education Saturday
November 11, 2006
If you missed it when the Bell Museum showed it, you've got another shot now: the Anthropology Club at UMTC is showing Flock of Dodos on Thursday, 19 April.
This afternoon, I'm traveling to the Twin Cities again. Ricardo Azevedo is giving a talk at 4:00 in 150 Ecology at UMTC on "Sex, robustness and epistasis".
This looks like it could be a spectacularly vigorous discussion: Do Organized Religions Suppress Women's Rights? A Panel Presentation on Women, Faith and Society.
Open threads are nice, but once or twice a week ought to be enough.
I'll bet you've never been to Rock City. It's just outside Minneapolis.
I've had a love-hate relationship with Mac/Apple all my life. Right now is a hating stage. I am VERY, VERY FRUSTRATED.
That's all.
My brain hurts.
I'm not getting any work done at the office at all.
j - Why the frustration? Can any of us help you out?
Probably not. My iPod is a piece of [insert expletive here].
But that was very kind of you to ask.
Scott
Any news yet from the Dobrichs' lawyer?
Thanks.
A comment by M.Petersen got me googling eye beams and the first things that came up were "eye beam monster vs. squid 2" comic and a comic strip called eyebeam:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/717703/
http://www.eyebeam.com/toons/e002.jpg
George, you're kidding, right? Those are awesome links, in any case.
I think three is the limit for open thread posts? I've been censored already 3 times on this blog which is why I haven't responded to some half a dozen questions directed to me personally. Oh well. Science is Fascism.
"Science is Fascism."
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Looks like the Kansas preliminary results are in...but the PT site is crawling and deathly slow. Anybody here have an update?
Anyone feel like going over to Brad Blog and saying there was no neocon conspiracy on 9/11?
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3149
There's a raucous crowd of conspiracy theorists hanging out over there, talking about a recent show on C-SPAN.
I added my two cents and they jumped all over me. It's kinda fun. It's like being Jason.
Those are awesome links, in any case. -- indeed.
For something entirely different: it seems the business magazine Forbes and its readers have discovered evolution - no longer thrall to George Gilder-like technogurus.
In the current issue:
* there's a 1-page essay by Stephen Pinker on how Hollywood's cutesy animal movies are missing great opportunities to popularize evolution
* a letter from a reader berates Forbes for claiming the disease-resistant bacteria in hospitals result from mutations - it's natural selection, the letter clearly explains, though referring to it as "supernatural selection" - mischievious phrase!
Online for two weeks at www.forbes.com/forbes with links there to Letters ("Readers Say") and Pinker ("On My Mind").
(Free registration required. And for those of liberal sensibilities, it's still often prudent to read Forbes from back to front - the opening editorials are antediluvian, like most in the WSJ)
I hear the creationists lost big in Kansas elections. Way to go....
So you were jabbering incoherently? Did you accuse them of "painting with a broad brush"?
Evidence Of Rapid Evolution Is Found At The Tips Of Chromosomes
What Would Bacon Do?
the LATimes reviews books on Darwin, evolution and ID
Who is this Mary Box person who is making so many dumb comments on dead threads?