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Some Other Minor Non-Economists

By now, there's little to add to the criticism of Donald Kennedy's absurd statement regarding Princeton economist Paul Krugman that: And yet maybe Krugman is not really an economist -- at least not according to the definition offered more than a century ago by Francis Amasa Walker, the first president of the American Economic Association, who wrote that laissez-faire "was not made the test of economic orthodoxy, merely. It was used to decide whether a man were an economist at all." Most modern economists continue to celebrate Walker's orthodoxy, and behind it, the classical doctrines of Adam…

So When Does Scooter Get His Medal of Freedom?

Go read Hunter now. Here's a taste: Eighteen months from now, on some mid-January day, Libby will of course be lauded for his great service to the nation -- that service in no way being the remarkable ability to keep his mouth tightly shut in face of a criminal investigation into activities at the White House, perish the thought -- and fully pardoned. Bush's statement about respecting jury opinions will be recast once again, this time to the effect of "I respect the jury opinions, but Scooter has had quite the rough time of it lately, what with all these investigations and indictments and…

Some Sunday Links

Here are some weekend links for you. First, the science: The WHO gets some things right: measles. Mark's post on the World's Evilist Programming Language makes me laugh. Revere discusses a case of Tamiflu-resistant H5N1 influenza. The view of global warming from Mount Thor. Kent Hovind is going to jail for tax fraud. Apparently, while everything we have ultimately belongs to God, in a proximal sense, the U.S. government wants its cut. Mark H. writes about oyster drills. He focuses on Urosalphinx, but I'm a Nucella fan myself. Don't forget the most recent edition of Tangled Bank. In case…

2006: A Victory For the Clueless?

Both the establishment centrists and the grassroots within the Democratic party are claiming the 2006 victory as their own. But what's really terrifying is that the group which pushed the Democrats over the top probably were the utterly clueless and indesicive voters. From CNN, comes this exit poll: WHEN DID YOU DECIDE YOUR HOUSE VOTE? TOTAL Democrat Republican Today (10%) 61% 36% Last Three Days (9%) 51% 47% Last Week (9%) 52% 47% Last Month (21%) 54% 44% Before Then (50%) 54…

Rom Houben is still a victim

Yet more skeptics have spoken out: Randi, Orac, and Novella, on the case of the Belgian man who is claimed to have awakened from a persistent vegetative state, and is even, supposedly, writing a book about his 23 years trapped in an unresponsive body. It's possible that he has recovered to some degree, but the evidence hasn't been shown. Supposedly, he was diagnosed to have some functionality with a poorly described brain mapping technique (one summary I read in Nature suggests that it was looking for areas of the brain that lit up in response to external stimuli, but there's more to…

Meanwhile, Habeas Corpus Is Dead

Did you ever think in 1999 that Congress would pass a bill, and that a President would sign a bill that eliminates habeas corpus at the whim of the president? I sure as hell didn't. This is why the utter warping of our political system by the mindless Christopath Uruk-hai, the anti-gay bigots, and the blastula liberationists is so devastating: because it allows other forms of extremism such as the Federalist Society and those who believe in the 'unitary executive' to flourish unchecked. From Keith Olbermann: OLBERMANN: Does this mean that under this law, ultimately the only thing keeping…

A Chicago Immigrant: A Tale of Two Constituencies

What's shocking is the utter silence from the White House about the immigration story unfolding in Chicago. Remember, this is the same administration that interrupted the president's vacation for the Terry Schiavo incident. So when it really matters politically the White House is willing to move. But they've remained mysteriously quiet on this. First, the story. An illegal immigrant whose son is a seven-year old U.S. citizen is to be deported back to Mexico. She refuses to leave and has sought sanctuary in a church. Right now, I'm sure Karl Rove is hoping this goes away quietly. On the…

Some Monday Reading

Here's some interesting articles I pulled off the internets for you: Publius argues "The fact that Iraq was so incompetently executed is actually the least of its problems. The bigger problem is that the idea of it represented a staggering failure of vision and judgment in terms of anti-terrorism policy. It's simply not possible to devise an anti-terrorism policy more at odds with the nature of the threat facing us." An interesting NY Times magazine article by Michael Young on how Hizbollah relates to the Lebanese political scene (as opposed to the War on Terra). Neil the Ethical Werewolf…

Double Down on Red.

Blood red that is. At DailyKos, Hunter elegantly describes the Peter Pan Right: No beating around the bush, here: with talk of "World War III" and the blessed "opportunity" of the expanded bloodshed, conservatives and neoconservatives are positively giddy in their proclamations of who else -- which cities, which people -- need to die next, in the service of the city on the hill that can be built on their bones. A Larger War is, as I have said before, a monkey's paw. Fuck the devil; there are wishes here to be granted, if you ask for them properly. There are political futures to be determined…

I Know It's Boston, But...

He's a Snuffleupagus, not a Seamus ...do we have to name everything Seamus? Yesterday, the Boston Globe had an interesting story about curing a sick tapir at the Franklin Park Zoo using antibiotics: With its trunk leading the way, the baby Baird's tapir once again explored pools and exotic plants at the Franklin Park Zoo yesterday after recovering from life-threatening pneumonia. The 50-pound South American mammal, which looks like a cross between an elephant and a hog, responded to an aggressive eight-day regimen of antibiotics, said Dr. Eric Baitchman, a zoo veterinarian. Zoo trainers…

My Hook Nose Is Swelling With Pride

Former Republican governor and presidential hopeful Tommy Thompson just entered the running for the Stupid Asshole of the Week. From his comments to the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington D.C.: "I'm in the private sector and for the first time in my life I'm earning money. You know that's sort of part of the Jewish tradition and I do not find anything wrong with that." Thompson later apologized for the comments that had caused a stir in the audience, saying that he had meant it as a compliment, and had only wanted to highlight the "accomplishments" of the Jewish religion…

The Political Failure of Annual Influenza

One of the few predictable statistics in American public health is that between 35,000-40,000 people will die every year from 'ordinary' influenza. Most of these deaths are preventable. Yet we do nothing. In the U.S., influenza kills approximately the same number of people every year as breast cancer does. But unlike breast cancer, we don't need to run, walk, jump, pogostick, or unicycle for the 'cure.' All we need to do is vaccinate enough of the appropriate people. It's that simple. An effective influenza vaccination policy would involve the mass vaccination of those most likely to…

Some Sunday Links

Merry Daylight Savings Time! Here are some links for you. First, the science stuff: I have some thoughts on the possible approval of cefquinome use in cattle. Also, I have some interesting factoids about MRSA for ya. There's a new strain of norovirus in town. From the Neisseria gonorrhoea files (that would be the 'clap'): it doesn't matter if the bacterium is sensitive to antibiotics if you can't detect it. Mark H tells us why polar bears are white. The other stuff: In Slate, Jacob Weisberg has four points about Iraq that no politician is willing to utter. Sisyphus Shrugged notes that…

The pagan Reformation

I read Christmas: A Candid History walking home last night. It's a small compact book so walking and reading works well. In any case, there was some surprising information here. The basic outline that Christmas, as we understand it, is in large part a co-opted pagan complex of festivals is there. No surprise. But the author claims that the suppression of St. Nicholas and his festival during the Reformation in northern Europe had the side effect of enabling the resurgence of pagan supernatural folk-heroes! In other words, without St. Nicholas the rural peasantry of German and Scandinavia…

This Would Seem Something Educational Reformers Might Want to Do Something About

It would be nice if educational 'reformers' took a break from busting teachers unions to deal with the infiltration of pseudo-scientific falsehoods into the science curriculum: ...the most brazen example is buried in the middle of the story: a coal-industry produced propaganda film for kids selling the lie that the atmosphere needs more greenhouse gas: ...the Coal Education Development and Resources foundation, known as CEDAR, offers small grants to teachers whose lessons dovetail with its industry-driven mission... ...CEDAR also offers a video to teachers called "The Greening of Planet Earth…

Earthquakes → progress?

Tectonic environments of ancient civilizations in the eastern hemisphere: The map distribution of ancient civilizations shows a remarkable correspondence with tectonic boundaries related to the southern margin of the Eurasian plate. Quantification of this observation shows that the association is indeed significant, and both historical records and archaeoseismological work show that these civilizations commonly suffered earthquake damage. Close association of ancient civilizations with tectonic activity seems to be a pattern of some kind. In the hope that dividing the civilizations into…

Beware the dark-eyed

p-ter points me to a new paper in Trends in Ecology, Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes: In vertebrates, melanin-based coloration is often associated with variation in physiological and behavioural traits. We propose that this association stems from pleiotropic effects of the genes regulating the synthesis of brown to black eumelanin. The most important regulators are the melanocortin 1 receptor and its ligands, the melanocortin agonists and the agouti-signalling protein antagonist. On the basis of the physiological and behavioural functions of the…

Calculate how tall your children will be

I realized today that my post about doing quantitative genetic back-of-the-envelopes was rather wordy. And, I have a hunch that those who "got it" already have an intuitive feel for what I'm talking about, so I thought perhaps the easiest way to get people to develop a better feel was to roll up the calculations into a small Javascript calculator. You can find it below the fold. The terms are defined in the earlier post, but I plugged in the default values (you can change them if you want). Obviously you enter in inches or centimeters depending on whether you're normal or Canadian.…

Russia is all about location

My post which sketched out the model of Slavic expansion northeast into the lands of the Finnic peoples generated a fair number of comments. I tend to agree with those who suggest that Slavic access to more efficient or superior agricultural traditions is probably the explanation for why they absorbed the Finns, and not the reverse. But while thinking about these topics, I thought it might be useful to make explicit an idea which I think we're all using implicitly as a background assumption: location matters. The Slavs were more likely to have access to innovations because they were…

Jamie Lynn Spears: uncertain paternity?

Turns out that Jamie Lynn Spears' baby daddy is expressing paternity skepticism. He might check out the paper How Well Does Paternity Confidence Match Actual Paternity? Evidence from Worldwide Nonpaternity Rates: This survey of published estimates of nonpaternity suggests that for men with high paternity confidence, nonpaternity rates are typically 1.7% (if we exclude studies of unknown methodology) to 3.3% (if we include such studies). These figures are substantially lower than the "typical" nonpaternity rate of 10% or higher cited by many researchers, often without substantiation...or the…

Breastfeeding & IQ & norm of reaction

Moderation of breastfeeding effects on the IQ by genetic variation in fatty acid metabolism: ...Breastfed children attain higher IQ scores than children not fed breast milk, presumably because of the fatty acids uniquely available in breast milk. Here we show that the association between breastfeeding and IQ is moderated by a genetic variant in FADS2, a gene involved in the genetic control of fatty acid pathways. We confirmed this gene-environment interaction in two birth cohorts, and we ruled out alternative explanations of the finding involving gene-exposure correlation, intrauterine growth…

Polling for validation of bigotry

There was this young child at a Catholic pre-school who was kicked out because his or her parents were lesbians. Now people are protesting, because that's not what Jesus would do (I won't quibble over their justifications — Jesus probably would have told the mob to stone the perverted parents to death — it's OK that they're doing the right thing for the wrong reasons). And the local newspaper runs a poll. Is it valid to protest a Boulder Roman Catholic school's decision to bar the child of a lesbian couple from attending? Yes Â 43.98 % No Â 40.32 % I'm not sure Â 1.443 % I don't care if…

Scientologists prominently dissed

There are two very encouraging facts about this article on scientology in the NY Times. One is that it got published. Once upon a time, newspapers and magazines hesitated to criticize scientology at all, because they'd immediately sic an army of lawyers on the publication, and any journalists involved face some fierce harassment. They probably still do that, but their triumphantly oppressive days are over. The other is this fascinating disclosure. The church is vague about its membership numbers. In 11 hours with a reporter over two days, Mr. Davis, the church's spokesman, gave the numbers of…

European population substructure

PLOS has an interesting article which reports on the differentiation of European populations into northern and southern clusters, along with separability between various nationalities. Since until recently mate selection has been a function of distance and topography, and national borders also tended to be bounded by physical features (e.g., the Alps or the Pyrenees), it is no surprise that, on average, the French tend to cluster with other French. But, I do think quantification such as this is useful: ...most individual participants with southern European ancestry (Italian, Spanish,…

Atheism book found in home linked to fire suspect!

Two suspects in a Texas church arson have been arrested. Unfortunately, guess what the most important fact in the presentation of the story is? Investigators have seized books on demons and atheism as well as rifles and knives from in a home linked to one of the men charged with setting an east Texas church on fire and suspected in a string of similar blazes. Jason Robert Bourque, 19, and Daniel George McAllister, 21, were arrested Sunday and charged with a single count of felony arson in the torching of the Dover Baptist Church near Tyler about 90 miles east of Dallas. Right. Because…

Women in Science - counterpunch

Over at GNXP Classic Agnostic has an extensive post up on the "women in science" controversy. I will admit to prodding him on this issue as I've been receiving emails (and comments) where people want me to "address" it. But time is finite...and I'm rereading Genetical Theory as well as hitting some George C. Williams, and I'm about as interested in getting "into it" as I am in arguing about Creationism. James F. Crow speaks for me: Two populations may have a large overlap and differ only slightly in their means. Still, the most outstanding individuals will tend to come from the population…

Paleontology & microevolution?

Rapid evolution in early trilobites fueled by high variation: Webster compiled morphological data for nearly 1,000 of the 17,000 different species of trilobites, a class of marine arthropods that died out by 250 million years ago, from 49 previously published sources. By tracking different morphological features -- the number of body segments, for example -- Webster found that trilobite species exhibited more variation during the Cambrian than in later periods, he reported in Science July 27. "Once you go beyond the Cambrian, the diversity of forms within any one species drops off," he says.…

Cognitive morphs in Drosophila

Natural polymorphism affecting learning and memory in Drosophila: Knowing which genes contribute to natural variation in learning and memory would help us understand how differences in these cognitive traits evolve among populations and species. We show that a natural polymorphism at the foraging (for) locus, which encodes a cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG), affects associative olfactory learning in Drosophila melanogaster. In an assay that tests the ability to associate an odor with mechanical shock, flies homozygous for one natural allelic variant of this gene (forR) showed better short-…

Commensal Bacterium May Reduce Crohn's Disease Outbreaks

A recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the gut bacterium Faecalibacterium prausnitzii reduces the recurrence of ileal Crohn's disease. In the study, the authors determined that the percentage of total bacteria that were F. prausnitziii found in the ileal muscosa was roughly five percent in patients who did not have recurrence of symptoms six months after surgery versus roughly 0.1% in those patients who had symptoms six months later. When F. prausnitzii was grown with cultured intestinal cells, it was found to have an anti-inflamatory effect.…

Did the Republican Party Convention Subsidize Police Brutality?

Ten million dollars buys you a lot of police misconduct: An investigation is indeed necessary, but I am already pretty sure about what happened: In August, protesters at the 2004 RNC successfully won police brutality lawsuits against the New York City police department. So, a few days later, the Republican Party indemnified the St. Paul police for up to $10 million in the event that charges of police brutality would be brought against them. Then, at the convention, the police went out and illegally beat up $10 million worth of progressives, including progressive media. It was a free…

Obama Crushes Clinton with White Vote...

...in Oregon. Despite all of the talk about how Obama has a problem with white voters, he won Oregon, even though the electorate is essentially entirely white. So what do commentators mean when they say Obama has a problem with white voters? What they mean is that Obama has a problem with whites whose ancestors or communities participated slavery, 'convict labor'*, lynching, Jim Crow, and segregation (as well as 'massive resistance'). One just doesn't walk away from that kind of brutality, even decades later. These attitudes linger. So why won't the media discuss this openly and honestly…

I'm really in the wrong business

I told you yesterday that it was amazing that a religious crank could serve an adoring audience with 55 radio stations, all pumping out Grade A Prime lunacy. It was a bit depressing that all an old fool needs to do is babble about God and the Bible and people will throw money at him. But then I'd also pointed out that another phony, Rick Warren, had suffered a major financial shortfall of almost a million dollars, and was begging for more donations. That makes you feel a little better, right? Stupidity is not a smooth road to riches, at least. Despair some more, people. Warren put out his…

Help Kay Weber Fight Sexist Pigs at Fermilab

Kay Weber, a scientist at Fermilab, has filed a sexual harassment suit against the Department of Energy. The details are pretty disgusting: She supervised a group of about 25 male technicians and engineers. A few years later she started to experience sexual harassment. She found jock straps in her office, condoms in her mailbox, derogatory notes in her mailbox and written on public bulletin boards. As a result she was removed from her position and placed in other departments for several years (yes, she was punished). Eventually she was returned to her original department and forced to…

Lions, Tigers, and...Tax Cut Snark? Oh My.

Economist Brad DeLong criticizes an economics reporter from ProPublica who claims "his job is looking for 'gotcha' stories about stimulus money going for 'lion cages at the National Zoo.'" In DeLong's comments, I asked: What's wrong with lion cages at the National Zoo? I like the National Zoo, and someone would be employed by this. Seriously, I don't get it. (That's not the snark, but it really does make you realize how stupid that reporter is. If you don't believe that a stimulus was necessary, well, you're an idiot, but, regardless, once you do have a stimulus, what's wrong with using it…

An impressive capacity for self-delusion

Gayle Haggard, wife of meth-snorting fan of gay prostitutes Ted Haggard has just had a press conference in which she announces that Ted Haggard is completely heterosexual…to which I can only reply with this song. Mrs Haggard also says "Our sexuality is conditioned, and we can be conditioned in any number of ways," which I think is partly true, but I also think is a bit disturbing. It can't be a boost to Gayle Haggard's self-esteem to think that her husband needed the Clockwork Orange treatment in order to find her sexually attractive, and to stop his eye from wandering to the willowy young…

Sunday Links

There's some kinda local race tomorrow or something. While I figure that out, here are some links. Science: E. coli illnesses at 5-year low in US ClimateGate Inquiry: No Scientific Misconduct From "Squeaky Clean" Researchers Lack of Trained Workforce Still an Obstacle to Smart Grid Success E. O. Wilson was wrong! Why Do Academics Write? Why Athletes Are Geniuses: Neuroscientists have found several ways in which the brains of top-notch athletes seem to function better than those of regular folks "Something Called 'Volcano Monitoring' " Other: The Ghost of Bobby Lee A Call for Action: BMInt…

Words Should Have Meaning: The Maddow Edition

At this point, no one should be surprised that Dick Cheney, along with other movement conservatives, are spouting ridiculous accusations about the Obama Administration's response to the Underpants Bomber. Rachel Maddow (video below) knocks down each false accusation, demonstrating that the Bush Administration did the same or worse. But the only reason these political sociopaths do this is because they can get away with it. The traditional media, despite its saving grace that it isn't composed of bloggers[/snark], is actually providing misinformation by conveying to its consumers that Obama…

A Personal Observation on the Changeover from Population Genetics to Population Genomics

Last week, I was invited to give a talk at Stony Brook University's Ecology and Evolution department about genomics (very long time readers will know that I spent four years at Stony Brook as a post-doc and research professor). The talk was well received (thank you for asking) in part, I think, because of the way I began the talk. I noted that, when I was at Stony Brook, a colleague and I spent roughly two years sequencing 10 genes from over 120 E. coli strains--and we were rightfully proud of what we had accomplished. At the time (2001-2002), this was one of the largest bacterial…

Note to Bachman About Census Bashing: It Has Real Consequences

It's still unclear if the murdered census worker with "fed" written on his chest was killed because he was a census worker, but the bashing of the Constitutionally-mandated census by Michelle Bachmann and other conservatives is having an effect--and not a good one (italics mine): I work in the field for the Census Bureau in western North Carolina, deep in the mountains. There are certainly meth labs and grow ops in the areas where I've worked, but the greatest fear for my team and myself comes from the angry and the ignorant. The overwhelming anger is directed straight at the President. No…

Income Tax Stupidity: The NY Times Edition

Who knew Warren Buffett had his own special tax bracket? With reporting like this, who needs Republicans? From a NY Times story about limiting the tax break for charitable donations by the rich (italics mine): "If you're a teacher making $50,000 a year and decide to donate $1,000 to the Red Cross or United Way, you enjoy a tax break of $150," Mr. Orszag wrote. "If you are Warren Buffett or Bill Gates and you make that same donation, you get a $350 deduction, more than twice the teacher." (Actually, Mr. Buffett's overall tax rate was somewhere around 17 percent, according to his testimony…

The Ngrams of MRSA, staphylococcus, and Staphylococcus

So Google has released this Ngram thingee that searches for words in all of the archived Google stuff. So I decided to look for the words "MRSA", "staphylococcus", and "Staphylococcus." Here's what I found: You'll note that both staphylococcus and Staphylococcus surge around the same time as the influenza pandemic of 1918. What's odd though is that if we drill into the years 1910-1920, the highest use of both words is around 1913, although it doesn't decrease much until after 1920. Presumably, bloodstream infections (sepsis) from WWI, followed by the influenza pandemic--in which…

What Antibiotic Resistance Looks Like: The NDM-1 Edition

If you haven't heard, there's a new antibiotic resistance gene, NDM-1, which stands for New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1. This gene has been found in Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae (E. coli and Klebsiella), and confers resistance to every penicillin derivative. Like the KPC genes, this gene is found on miniature chromosomes that also carry other resistance genes, making this organism resistant to just about everything we can throw at it. By way of Maryn McKenna, we find this nice ATCC chart which shows just how bad one of these bacteria can be: All those "R"s mean that drug doesn't…

Mystery Bird: Wattled Jacana, Jacana jacana

tags: Wattled Jacana, Jacana jacana, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz [Mystery bird] Wattled Jacana, Jacana jacana, photographed in tributary called the Rio Ariau, a tributary that runs between the Rio Negro and Amazon rivers about 35 miles west of Manaus. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow] Image: Martin, 2008 [larger view]. Nikon D80 300mm lens at 1/100th sec, ISO1600. Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification. I'm a blogger and a fan of your site (I run the Praxis Carnival), and I happen to have a photograph of a bird I took in the Amazon a while…

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tags: Times Square, 42nd street, The Revelers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC The Revelers (2007). Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms. I watched the workmen install these mosaics (I wish I had photographed the process to share with you) and photographed them all after the adhesive had dried. Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view]. I have photographed glass tile…

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tags: Times Square, 42nd street, The Revelers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC The Revelers (2007). Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms. I watched the workmen install these mosaics (I wish I had photographed the process to share with you) and photographed them all after the adhesive had dried. Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view]. I have photographed glass tile…

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tags: Times Square, 42nd street, The Revelers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC The Revelers (2007). Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms. I watched the workmen install these mosaics (I wish I had photographed the process to share with you) and photographed them all after the adhesive had dried. Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view]. I have photographed glass tile…

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tags: Times Square, 42nd street, The Revelers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC The Revelers (2007). Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms. I watched the workmen install these mosaics (I wish I had photographed the process to share with you) and photographed them all after the adhesive had dried. Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view]. I have photographed glass tile…

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tags: Times Square, 42nd street, The Revelers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC The Revelers (2007). Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms. I watched the workmen install these mosaics (I wish I had photographed the process to share with you) and photographed them all after the adhesive had dried. Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view]. I have photographed glass tile…

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tags: Times Square, 42nd street, The Revelers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC The Revelers (2007). Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms. I watched the workmen install these mosaics (I wish I had photographed the process to share with you) and photographed them all after the adhesive had dried. Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view]. I have photographed glass tile…

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tags: Times Square, 42nd street, The Revelers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC The Revelers (2007). Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms. I watched the workmen install these mosaics (I wish I had photographed the process to share with you) and photographed them all after the adhesive had dried. Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view]. I have photographed glass tile…