Botanical Wednesday: Not Christina Amphlett's favorite flower

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(from here) ScienceBlogling Ed Brayton finds this little tidbit from the coverage of the Stupak amendment (italics mine): I'm bothered by something said in an earlier article on the CNN website about this: Several Democrats, including Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pennsylvania, said they are in touch with…
It feels a little silly to quote Chuck Klosterman as some sort of Deep Thinker-- this is a guy whose whole claim to fame revolves around the expression of weirdly absolute opinions about pop culture ephemera, after all. Then again, the best political reporting being done these days is done by a…
Ever wonder how the art and science of medicine made it from medieval times to today without self-destructing, à; la alchemy? Meet Leonard of Bertapalia (1380?-1460), a prominent surgeon in Padua and Venice who was not only a dedicated anatomist but a visionary in the surgical arts. He authored…
Gotta love this kind of hatchet job on a man running for an appeals court position in Texas. They've outed him as an atheist and are claiming that he will therefore refuse to do his job: Should Franks be elected in November, one would have to conclude that he will hold true to his out of touch "…