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Randi responds

Unfortunately, he still doesn't understand the gist of our complaint, but he does clarify a few issues. I do not, and did not, deny the established fact -- arrived at by extensive scientific research -- that average global temperatures have increased by a bit less than one Celsius degree. My commentary was concerned with my amateur confusion about the myriad of natural phenomena that obviously bring about worldwide climate changes and whether we can properly assign the cause to anthropogenic influences. Yes, I'm aware of the massive release of energy -- mostly heat -- that we've produced by…

A Great Description of Science

While the Republican War on Science isn't doing as well as it once was, there still is too much politicization of scienctific results. Commenting on a BBC article about the UCS statement about scientific integrity, Jim at TeachtheFacts.org gives an excellent description of science (italics mine): I am fascinated by the process, the turbulent social evolution of knowledge as researchers around the world compete and cooperate and learn from one another and teach one another, all at once. The heart of the matter is peer review, where scientists judge one another's research to determine whether…

These Guys Are Really Crazy

Do remember when all those wackjob militia groups fantasized about UN Mongolian shock troops that would invade the U.S. and establish the One World Order under the control of the Trilateral Commission? (If you don't, you really missed the rightward anchor of the modern conservative movement). Well, the Missouri Baptist Convention has taken this sort of lunacy to a new level. The president of the Convention, Rev. David Clippard, had this to say about the Islamofacist hordes (by way of Glenn Greenwald): "Today, Islam has a strategic plan to defeat and occupy America," he told the 1,200-strong…

A Comment on the Lakoff/Pinker Debate: What About Ethos?

There's been some discussion about the flareup between Lakoff and Pinker. I'm not even going to comment on the cognitive science issues: we have bonafide experts around these parts to do that. But I have had considerable experience debating conservatives, and I have personally found most of what Lakoff writes to be pretty useless in any practical, working sense. Why? Because the best debating technique is relying on ethos (either yours or someone you're quoting). For example, Rep. Harold Ford did that to innoculate himself against charges that he frolicked with Playboy bunnies. His…

Is Senator Clinton a Lieberman 'Democrat'?

I ask this seriously. Among rank and file Democrats, there is a common belief that Democratic politicians are being dragged to right by the need for compromise. But I don't think that's the case with Clinton: she is a conservative Southern Democrat without the regional accent. And the southern blue dogs have been pretty weak on the Iraq Occupation. From Matt Stoller (italics mine): There is just no way that she can say that she will end the war and that she will continue a military mission in Iraq to contain extremists and ward off Iran. Those are mutually exclusive. As Matthew…

Conservapedia Mistates Mutation

Some of my fellow ScienceBloglings have written about Conservapedia's treatment of evolution. What has always puzzled me about creationists is the rather frequent denial of mutation. For example, in the section on macroevolution, titled "Is the theory of macroevolution true?"*--which should tell you what's to come right away, the entry reads: 2. Differences between organisms can be explained by known mechanisms of genetic mutation. * Counter: There has not been enough time for mutation to generate existing biological diversity. * Counter: There has been enough time enough…

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory blogging, chapter 4

Chapters read:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. And so it goes on as I march through chapter 4 of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, more of the same. Chapter 3 was a history of 19th century evolutionary thought viewed through the lens of the concept of hierarchies of selection. Though Stephen Jay Gould stayed on topic much of the time, it seems that on many an occasion the link of the exposition to the notional theme would become extremely tenuous as he followed a particularly fascinating tangent and the prose just snapped off the chain. In Chapter 4 Gould exhibits many of the same tendencies…

It's Not My Party, But If I Were a Republican I Would Back Romney (It's the Liberals, Stupid)

Or more accurately, it's the revolt of the liberals. Personally, it's none of my business whom Republicans nominate for president, but, to me, Romney seems to be a strong electoral candidate (albeit one disliked by the Tea Party/theopolitical base). Why? Liberals. Hunh? Let me explain. I've been talking to liberals who have non-overlapping circles of friends in Virginia, one of the closely contested swing states (thanks to Google+, the ability to use the phrase "circle of friends" is rapidly drawing to a close. But I digress). As I far as I can tell, there are enough liberals who would…

Chris, Scientists Who Speak Well Do Put the Conclusions First

Because that's just good speaking. Chris Mooney has a very good post about the civic obligation scientists have to explain their work and its implications to the public. I recommend it highly. But one small part of the post rubbed me the wrong way (italics original; boldtype mine): When it comes to scientific topics, citizens--and journalists, and policy-makers--want to know what the bottom line is, in plain language. They want to know why a topic matters, who it affects, what we can do about it. And can you blame them for feeling this way? There is a lot out there to pay attention to. We'…

How tall will your children be?

I was chatting with a friend about a few quantitative genetic "back-of-the-envelopes." Specifically, about the expectation of the heights of the offspring of any given couple in the United States. I say the United States because it is a nation where most people get enough to eat; that means that heritability is on the order of 80-90% for this trait. By this, I mean that 80-90% of the variation in height we see within the population is due to variation in genetics. Those who are tall are likely to have tall parents, and those who are short are likely to have short parents. The key is…

Stupid but not "racist"

Check out this post from Ed Brayton on a definition for "cultural racism" from the Seattle Public Schools: Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having a future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only Whites as great writers or composers. As someone who isn't "flesh colored" (see picture to your left, you know you got to love the hot chocolate!) and has lived in the Pacific northwest of the United States for over 15 years, I will weigh in…

Why Britney Spears eventually accpeted evolution (I suspect)

Chris of Mixing Memory has a long post on the cognitive science of evolutionary biology, or, more precisely, how people tend to interpret and perceive evolutionary biology. The whole post is worth reading (and linking if you have a weblog). I hit upon some of the points in my post Endless Forms Most Continuous, but Chris points out three primary blocks to an acceptance of evolutionary biology: 1) Intuitive theism, the tendency to see design in complex objects and phenomena. 2) Intuitive essentialism, the tendency to not frame populations as populations as opposed to iterations of an…

Naturalistic biological evolution

The "standard model" of intellectual history presents the Presocratics as the pioneers of naturalistic explanations of the universe around us. This narrative explains how the messy natural philosophy of the Presocratics gave way to the more metaphysical and ethical schools of the late Classical and Hellenistic and Roman eras. In any case, Socialist Swine asks below: I know that prior to Darwin people had some notion of evolution though they didn't have a notion of the mechanism involved. Do you have any idea, who might have first suggested that species change over time? Well, 10 minutes…

Why are women more religious?

Bryan Caplan reviews a survey which suggests that women are more religious cross-culturally than men. If you've been involved in the Freethought movement this won't surprise you. Here's an important point: Once people admit that this gender gap exists, the most popular explanation is that women are "socialized" to be more religious. Stark and Miller put this theory to the test. If the socialization hypothesis is true, they reason, then the gender gap should be larger in more traditional societies where socialization pressure is more intense. Make sense to me. Survey says: Dead wrong.…

The genomic future is almost here?

Technology dramatically speeds gene mapping. A short little piece which repeats the standard mantras; faster, cheaper and better. The Human Genome Project was proof of principle. Right now, with all the stuff that is starting to bubble up around personal genomics it looks like we're at a technological and social point of no return, the second derivative is positive, the the rate of change is increasing. Hsien-Hsien is going to have to start getting a bit more selective about what she blogs about since the sample space of upon which the commentary is based will start to rapidly increase in…

A post-Christian America?

Regular readers know that I often check in on the results from The Barna Group, an evangelical Christian polling outfit. On the one hand I think The Barna Group tends to be a bit alarmist (they have a very narrow definition for a "Biblically based Christian," e.g., Catholics don't count), but on the other hand you can be sure that they aren't going to be pushing atheist wishful thinking. So I was really interested when I saw that a new study had come out, A New Generation Expresses its Skepticism and Frustration with Christianity. In short, the authors find that a growing number of young…

Was the Islamic Alexander the product of a gangbang?

Wikipedia is really funny, I mean, what you stumble upon...Nikah Ijtimah "is a form of polyandry that existed in the Pre-Islamic period in the Arabian peninsula." I knew of the purported existence of polyandry in pre-Islamic Arabia (see No God but God), but this, I did not know of: ...there were four types of marriage during the Pre-Islamic period of ignorance. One ... type of marriage was that a group of less than ten men would assemble and enter upon a women, and all of them would have sexual relations with her. If she became pregnant and delivered a child and some days had passed after…

More AIG Follies

If there were ever an argument for high income tax rates on large incomes (i.e., greater than five million), AIG is making it. The arrogance of its executives, even after a bailout, can only be called by its true name--corruption (italics mine): NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group, the insurance giant that drew fire for executive "golden parachutes" and an ill-timed junket even as it receives a massive taxpayer bailout, has agreed to mend its ways. AIG promised to recover executive payments and other compensation, cancel perks and institute reforms one day after New York…

Legislating Corporate Rule: The Michigan Edition

I haven't been able to track down the specific bill, but, if this report about legislation in Michigan is true, this is essentially a corporate coup d'état (italics mine): NAOMI KLEIN: Well, I just found out about this last night, and like I said, there's so much going on that these extraordinary measures are just getting lost in the shuffle. But in Michigan, there is a bill that's already passed the House. It's on the verge of passing the Senate. And I'll just read you some excerpts from it. It says that in the case of an economic crisis, that the governor has the authority to authorize the…

A Legal and Scientific Issue with HIV 'Fingerprinting'?

A couple of weeks ago, I found a post, "Is HIV 'fingerprinting' junk courtroom science?", which argues: But calling the comparison of HIV strains' genes "fingerprinting" -- calling to mind the more-familiar matching of human suspects' DNA to blood at a crime scene -- is dangerously misleading, they warn. "By calling such investigations HIV fingerprinting, scientists raise unrealistic expectations" about the method's accuracy among juries and judges, the write. "Unlike for (human) DNA fingerprinting, where a likelihood can be calculated for a full match between the evidential DNA and the…

The Murderousness of He-Said, She-Said Journalism

There are two sides to every story (at least), but often one of those sides is flat out stupid, if not immoral. Yet journalistic convention, in part, helps contribute to the tide of eliminationist rhetoric. That's a point I touched on yesterday, but RMuse fleshes it out much more: ...the main stream media is silent in reporting the connection between the shooter and comments' suggesting violence is an acceptable means of facilitating change in government. What the media is reporting are the offensive responses from Republican legislators that both sides need to dial back the violent…

Dear Intelligent Designer, Another Round of Amy Sullivan

When I first read that Amy Sullivan, in honor of her new book, is guest posting at the Washington Monthly, I said to myself, dear Lord, more 'Democrats need to get religion' blather. Sadly, I was not disappointed. Already, there's a book review and a post. I was going to leave this to Amanda's excellent post, but there are a couple other points that I think need to be raised. First, the claim that "Democrats have earned lower levels of support from religious constituencies like white evangelicals and Catholics than they otherwise should have because activists and operatives have been…

Note to Conservatives: Kennedy Fought for All, but Too Often You Did Not Fight His Fight

R.J. Matson, St. Louis Post Dispatch Ezra Klein nails it: There is an impulse to honor the dead by erasing the sharp edges of their life. To ensure they belong to all of us, and in doing, deprive them of the dignity conferred by their actual choices, their lonely stands, and their long work. But Ted Kennedy didn't belong to all of us. He didn't even belong to all Democrats. He was not of the party that voted for more than a trillion in unfunded tax cuts but cannot bring itself to pay for health-care reform. He was not of the party that fears the next election more than the next failure to…

About That African-Americans and Latinos Might Have Increased Risk for TEH SWINEY FLOO!...

...I was wrong. African-Americans and Latinos are already showing elevated numbers of swine flu hospitalizations in Massachusetts: Since its arrival in Boston in late April, swine flu has proved to be a particular source of misery to the city's African-American and Hispanic residents, causing hospitalizations at far higher levels than other groups, disease trackers report. More than 3 of every 4 Bostonians who have spent time in the hospital because of the viral ailment are black or Hispanic, a finding that may reflect broader social ills, the top official at the Boston Public Health…

No, Benen, The Modern GOP Is Voinovich's Fault

Because ScienceBlogs borked this post yesterday, I'm reposting it here. 'Upgrade' is a four-letter word as far as I'm concerned. Anyway... Retiring Republican Senator George Voinovich lashed out recently at the Southern influence on the GOP. As Steve Benen noted, while Voinovich didn't make the point very tactfully, the GOP has become a regional party. Where I think Benen goes wrong is this (italics mine): Voinovich will no doubt get slammed for his remarks, but it's not his fault the party's power base has become focused on one conservative region. So whose fault is it? Mine? Benen's…

Is Expanding Bicycle Use in Boston a Good Thing...

...for pedestrians? The Boston Globe reports that Boston is trying to implement a citywide bike sharing program: They intend to roll out what would be the nation's first citywide bike-sharing system next spring, making hundreds of bicycles at dozens of stations across Boston available to anyone who can swipe a credit card. If all goes as planned, Bostonians and visitors will ride these bikes to run errands, reach their workplaces, travel from tourist site to tourist site and from meeting to meeting. All of this, officials say, will make drivers and bikers more respectful of each other, and…

No, Benen, The Modern GOP Is Voinovich's Fault

Retiring Republican Senator George Voinovich lashed out recently at the Southern influence on the GOP. As Steve Benen noted, while Voinovich didn't make the point very tactfully, the GOP has become a regional party. Where I think Benen goes wrong is this (italics mine): Voinovich will no doubt get slammed for his remarks, but it's not his fault the party's power base has become focused on one conservative region. So whose fault is it? Mine? Benen's? Of course, this is Voinovich's fault. He's a senior senator from a politically critical swing state. While manufacturing has been…

Saturday Sermon: The Politics of Hopelessness

There are times I agree with this post by Ian Welsh: My biggest weakness this year in doing analysis has been hope. I have let hope that the Obama administration and a Democratic Congress will do the right thing, and that they aren't corrupt and incompetent, get in the way of clear thinking. Enough. Hope isn't a plan, and hope isn't policy. Hope without good policy is a con-job. There hasn't been a good, major, bill come out of this Congress this year. They have all been fatally compromised, from the stimulus bill (larded up with useless tax cuts and without necessary State relief) to…

Unions to Stop Rewarding Bad Behavior

Finally, large, mainstream organizations that have traditionally supported Democrats are not rewarding bad behavior. From Arkansas, where incumbent corporate shill and supposed Democrat Blanche Lincoln is in a primary fight for her life. From The NY Times: CONWAY, Ark. -- They have knocked on 170,000 doors, made 700,000 phone calls, sent 2.7 million pieces of mail and spent almost $6 million on television and radio advertising. That is how badly labor unions, by their own count, want to defeat Senator Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat they once supported. Even though Arkansas's labor force is one…

Data Production and Release: We Need to Change Incentives

ScienceBlogling Revere calls for an open data policy for federally-funded research (italics mine): We've inveighed often here about the shameful practice that many senior and well-respected flu scientists have of keeping their sequences private until they publish -- if they publish using them. If not, no one gets to see them, even if we paid with tax money to collect them. The motives are often unselfish -- a senior scientist trying to protect post-docs or grad students from being scooped. Very Old School. This is the 21st century. We have our own students and we take mentoring very seriously…

It's Not Political Madness, but Politics of the Blood

Like InstaPutz, I too am tempted to do horrible things if I read another post about the 'epistemic closure of the conservative mind' (besides, the obvious joke writes itself). Instead, I want to discuss Marc Ambinder's recent post, "Have Conservatives Gone Mad?" To his credit, he's one of the first 'big names' in political punditry to raise what regular readers of this blog already know: the conservative movement is batshit loony. Ambinder also makes this very good point: Can anyone deny that the most trenchant and effective criticism of President Obama today comes not from the right but…

I Would Be Interested in Kindle, If It Could Help Me Read Faster

And it could, if done right. Even those of us who read really fast max out at around 600 words per minute. This is a result of what is known as saccadic eye movement. When we read, only a very small part of the retina, known as the fovea, is used, so as we read a line of text (and it doesn't matter if you're reading left to right, right to left, or top to bottom), your eye makes small jerks, saccades, to read the new text (if you have a video camera handy, record yourself reading this post. Nekkid. Your eyes will jerk several times per line). The problem I have with Kindle (and other…

Do Parents Choose Schools or Student Bodies?

One of the things often heard is that someone is leaving the city for the burbs because the schools are better (I use the generic city, since, in my experience this attitude doesn't appear to be limited to any particular city). But what if parents aren't choosing better schools, but better student bodies? What if parents are paying exorbitant housing costs, not because the schools perform better, but because those high housing costs are able to exclude students who perform poorly? A while ago, I wrote that, despite the best efforts of the doom-and-gloom educational assessment industry, some…

Who Will Be the Fall Guy for TEH SWINEY FLOO!!!?

A couple of days ago I was talking with a long-time reader who couldn't understand why those Democrats who favor healthcare reform weren't beating the drug companies over the head with the failure to produce enough swine flu vaccine. After all, if you're a drug manufacturer, you should be able to produce drugs. Said reader made an argument (albeit more colorfully) similar to Steve Benen's (italics mine): Taken together, it seems the president immediately recognized the seriousness of a public health issue, mobilized officials, launched a public information campaign, and ordered the creation…

Mortage Debt Revolt Is Looking More and More Likely, Which Means...

...Big Shitpile is looking more and more shitty. Last week, I wrote about how the dissolution of the bond between lenders and borrowers could lead to a home owner debtors' revolt. One of the key issues is that, when mortgages are bundled and sold to other parties, such as investment banks, the mortgage assignments are often made illegally--or perhaps more accurately, extralegally, since they are often not registered with the appropriate government authorities. This makes a recent decision from the Massachusetts Land Court very interesting: The blank mortgage assignments they possessed…

Waldmann on Theory, Math, Science, and Economics

One of the interesting things that's come out of Krugman's critique of macroeconomics is that it's led to a lot of economists (and others) discussing how science should work and what science is. I found Robert Waldmann's take on the role of mathematics in science and economics: I'd say that economists have not accomplished much using the mathematical scientific approach, because economists almost never use an approach which is both mathematical and scientific. The defining characteristic of science is that it is empirical and that hypotheses which are rejected by the data are abandoned (OK…

'Counterintuition', the Human Microbiome, and Why Fluency in Math Matters

A while ago, I talked about some things biologists should learn, and the glaring omission was mathematical fluency. I bring this up because one of the things the Mad Biologist does is work on the Human Microbiome Project (between that, and fighting evil, we are very busy...). The part of the Human Microbiome Project ('HMP') that I'm involved with is a consortium of four sequencing centers and an informatics center, whose goal is to sequence the microbes associated with 18 different body sites from 250 people. And math is vital to what we do. Before I get to the reason why math matters,…

The War on Scientific Denialism Begins to Move Beyond Scientists

One of the more promising trends I've seen is that the various forms of denialism that scientists regularly decry (including those of us here at ScienceBlogs) are starting to be recognized by non-scientists. I don't know if there's a direct cause-and-effect here, or if like-minded people are coming up with the same idea (the most depressing cause would be if this got started with a stupid blog comment...). Anyway, I bring you public policy professor Mark Kleiman (italics mine): One largely unremarked aspect of global-warming denialism (as exemplified by George Will and demolished by Mike…

Why Blue Dog Democrats Are Despicable

'Blue dog' conservative Democratic Senator Nelson's list of proposed cuts from the National Recovery and Reinvestment Act was leaked to Huffington Post (the documents are available at TPM). I've never understood the Blue Dogs. While conservatives are full blown batshit loony (Tax cuts today! Tax cuts tomorrow! Tax cuts fo'evuh!), there is at least some kind of ideology there (albeit twisted). What motivates the Blue Dogs? Do they like the power of being spoilers? Does it make them feel good when they can be the ones to make the deal? Do they not realize that 'stimulus' means spending…

Why Isn't the Missing Heritability Nearly Neutral and Tightly Networked?

One of the mysteries of genome-wide association studies ("GWAS") is the problem of 'missing heritability': quantitative genetics indicates that a trait (e.g., height, heart disease) has a significant genetic component, but the genetic variation we can link to that trait only explains a small amount of the suggested heritability. Christophe Lambert describes why he thinks GWAS hasn't had that much success so far: One major limitation is that the microarrays used in most major GWAS efforts to date employ common genetic variants originally identified in a rather small number of presumably…

Obama, Charlie Baker, and Not Caring About Unemployment

I've never been one for long-distance psychoanalysis, especially of political figures. I don't know them, and, besides, I'm not really competent to make a clinical judgment. Instead, I follow Paul Krugman's simple rule of punditry: Long ago -- basically when I started writing for the Times -- I decided that I would judge the character of politicians by what they say about policy, not how they come across in person. This led me to conclude that George W. Bush was dishonest and dangerous back when everyone was talking about how charming and reasonable he was. It led me to conclude that Colin…

Mystery Bird: Clay-colored Sparrow, Spizella pallida

tags: Clay-colored Sparrow, Spizella+pallida, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz [Mystery bird] Clay-colored Sparrow, Spizella pallida, photographed in Marymoor Park, Redmond, King County, Washington State. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow] Image: Marv Breece, 7 October 2006 [larger view]. Canon EOS 350D 1/400s f/8.0 at 300.0mm iso400. Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification. Rick Wright, Managing Director of WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide, writes: The first step in identifying sparrows is to eliminate as many species as possible -- and the best…

Mystery Bird: Sooty Fox Sparrow, Passerella iliaca

tags: Fox Sparrow, Passerella iliaca, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz [Mystery bird] Fox Sparrow, Passerella iliaca (sooty form), photographed in the Naches Pass Area, King County, Washington State. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow] Image: Marv Breece, 9 August 2007 [larger view]. Canon EOS 350D 1/400s f/5.6 at 300.0mm iso400. Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification. Rick Wright, Managing Director of WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide, writes: Sometimes we take the coward's way out. Instead of rising to the challenge, we let a bird that is at first…

Scientia Pro Publica Was Published Today!

Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux). Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power) -- Sir Francis Bacon. Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) blog carnival was just published! The 22nd edition of Scientia Pro Publica is hosted by Stephen at Reciprocal Space. Stephen writes about this edition; Like a barnacle's penis, this edition of Scientia Pro Publica is long and strange and packed with seeds--for thought. There was a veritable plethora of submissions, ranging from flit-stops that sought only to highlight single point of interest to deeply rewarding essays…

Birdbooker Report 107

tags: Birdbooker Report, bird books, animal books, natural history books, ecology books "How does one distinguish a truly civilized nation from an aggregation of barbarians? That is easy. A civilized country produces much good bird literature." --Edgar Kincaid The Birdbooker Report is a special weekly report of a wide variety of science, nature and behavior books that currently are, or soon will be available for purchase. This report is written by one of my Seattle birding pals and book collector, Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, and is edited by me and published here for your information and…

Birdbooker Report 104

tags: Birdbooker Report, bird books, animal books, natural history books, ecology books "How does one distinguish a truly civilized nation from an aggregation of barbarians? That is easy. A civilized country produces much good bird literature." --Edgar Kincaid The Birdbooker Report is a special weekly report of a wide variety of science, nature and behavior books that currently are, or soon will be available for purchase. This report is written by one of my Seattle birding pals and book collector, Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, and is edited by me and published here for your information and…

Comes With Baggage

My possessions arrived today. Until today, I felt I had escaped my previous life, but now, with all these items here, I feel trapped. I feel that my past has found me once again, that I've not escaped at all. There's something to be said for walking out of an undesirable life with just the clothes on one's back. Sitting here in this beautiful spacious flat -- the most beautiful place I've ever lived -- hemmed in by 100 boxes of books, clothes, books, parrot cages and toys, and yet more books, I wish I'd just walked out and boarded the plane, carrying nothing at all. With my luck, if I'd…

Update: Antarctic Vote Count

Image: Sneer Review. The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 6123 - 1903 - 1859 - 1279 - 1234 out of 589 candidates registered. I am in third place and sloooowly creeping up on second place. With only 2 weeks remaining, things are heating up and voting is changing rapidly as previous voters reassign their votes and new voters cast theirs for the first time. [Yes, you can change who you voted for, even if you voted weeks or months ago! All you have to do is log in using the account you created to cast your original vote, a process that takes only seconds] Many tens of thousands…

Update: Antarctic Vote Count

Image: Sneer Review. The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 6100 - 1899 - 1841 - 1264 - 1232 out of 587 candidates registered. I am in third place and sloooowly creeping up on second place. With less than 3 weeks remaining, things are heating up and voting is changing rapidly as previous voters reassign their votes and new voters cast theirs for the first time. [Yes, you can change who you voted for, even if you voted weeks or months ago! All you have to do is log in using the account you created to cast your original vote, a process that takes only seconds] Many tens of…

Update: Antarctic Vote Count

Image: Sneer Review. The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 6072 - 1891 - 1810 - 1241 - 1232 out of 583 candidates registered. I am in third place and sloooowly creeping up on second place. With less than 3 weeks remaining, things are heating up and voting is changing rapidly as previous voters reassign their votes and new voters cast theirs for the first time. Many tens of thousands of votes have already been cast in this competition, so if the people who have cast their votes already decide to change them, they can significantly affect the outcome of this competition. The…