Ah, Friday. Supposedly the day I can devote to doing some research, but instead I’m attempting to distil six hours of lectures on Darwin’s life into one easy to digest three hour bolus. In short, I’m going to be busy for a while.
Around the ScienceBlogs, I will note that Mark, PZ and John Wilkins offer some musings on reforming the Office of Technology Assessment. Tim mentions that a new survey puts the death toll in Iraq at over one million. Chad weighs in on the "scandal" regarding the NE Patriots, while Ed comments on a more substantive scandal at UC-Irvine’s law school.
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