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gregladen | October 25, 2010The Ration of Reason is a new science nature and skeptics podcast in which podcaster Matt Johnson and sometimes Samantha Johnson read selected science, nature, or skeptic related blog posts.
Today's installment includes one of mine ("The most important human adaptation"): Ep. 4: Ostriches Don't... Most Important Human Adaptation and One-Way Mars Missions.
Check it out!
gregladen | October 25, 2010And in this case, the teabagger is an actual tea party candidate, in the sense that the Republican Party is the Tea Party and Joe Miller is the Republican Nominee for the Senate.
The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.
Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed by the guards and detained in a hallway at Central Middle School until Anchorage police came and told the guards to release Hopfinger.
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Apparently, local police…
illconsidered | October 25, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Sipping from the internet firehose...October 24, 2010 Chuckles, COP16, Nagoya, Sukhdev, National Green Tribunal, CCVI, Pakistan Bottom Line, IP Rentiers, Economists, Cook, Free Access Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro Corps, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks,…
gregladen | October 24, 2010
This guy is not interested in anything but hearing is own voice. Obviously he knows exactly where the money is coming from.
gregladen | October 24, 2010It should not really matter how long it takes to boot your OS. Why? Because a good OS will start up once after a major system upgrade, then stay on forever after unless there is a power failure. If you want to shut down the computer you can hibernate the state to keep all your apps 'running' and files 'open.' You never really need to reboot, so why worry if a boot takes one minute, two, or three?
Unless, of course, your operating system is Windows. In this case, it matters a LOT how long it takes to reboot because you have to reboot the damn thing every time somebody's hat falls off. So…
gregladen | October 24, 2010Today is Genie Scott's birthday. Genie is loved by all in the community of biological scientists because of her central role, as director of the National Center for Science Education, in fighting the good fight against irrational efforts to teach creationism in our public schools and elsewhere. Genie is the author of several books, articles, and book chapters, including Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction and Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools.
gregladen | October 23, 2010Where is Science in the Public Forum Heading? It's time for a discussion!
Most know Ira Flatow as a science journalist, producer, and as the host of "Science Friday," broadcast on National Public Radio (NPR) every Friday afternoon. But did you know about his Minnesota connection? He was the original host and writer for the Emmy award winning "Newton's Apple," which broadcast from the television studios at KTCA in St. Paul, Minnesota. Science communicators Greg Laden and Lynn Fellman will ask Ira about the major changes in delivering science news and the effectiveness of new media for science…
kcollins | October 23, 2010Thanks NCAS for helping us get the word out about the USA Science and Engineering Festival!
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Oct 10-25 Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival DC
The USA Science and Engineering Festival is coming up. And while the Expo on the Mall Oct. 23 & 24 is getting the most publicity, there are a bunch of free science lectures and other events starting Oct. 10. Here is the full schedule:
www.usasciencefestival.org/2010festival/pre-expo-events
The USA Science & Engineering Festival mission:
Our mission is to re-invigorate the interest of our nation's youth in science,…
kcollins | October 22, 2010Check out one of our Satellite Festivals Happening this weekend! Visualizing Marathon 2010
It is a weekend-long student data visualization competition and they have about 95 students from Harvard, Columbia, SVA, Pratt, Parsons, L'ecole de design (France), etc. attending. The challenge will be announced Friday (Tonight!) at the Opening and it will focus on a complex scientific issue - more specifically - planetary boundaries. This challenge focuses on science and it's all about the merge of science and design, making sense of complex issues through data and design. Pretty Cool!
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gregladen | October 22, 2010Between ten and fifteen people who's skin is not pale-pinkish white have been shot by Swedish extremists, mirroring the recent election in Sweden of numerous strongly anti-non-white officials*. The most hard to spot stealthy submarine in the British Navy has become the most visible and talked about naval vessel.* Biggest news story I didn't notice this week: The Juan Williams, Bill O'Really, NPR and Fox News WTF.*
gregladen | October 22, 2010What a stupid-ass question.
Every profession has its conferences, and in some professions, there are many. When the conference happens, adjustments must be made because many go to said conference. The conference costs money, and those attending the conference usually get paid to go, and/or get their expenses covered, or get a stipend to defray the costs.
But when teachers try to act like professionals, questions are raised. Our local news "good question" spot, where a reporter takes on a question and tries to answer it, asks if the annual Minnesota Teacher's Association/Union meeting, at…
gregladen | October 21, 2010Where is Science in the Public Forum Heading? It's time for a discussion!
Most know Ira Flatow as a science journalist, producer, and as the host of "Science Friday," broadcast on National Public Radio (NPR) every Friday afternoon. But did you know about his Minnesota connection? He was the original host and writer for the Emmy award winning "Newton's Apple," which broadcast from the television studios at KTCA in St. Paul, Minnesota. Science communicators Greg Laden and Lynn Fellman will ask Ira about the major changes in delivering science news and the effectiveness of new media for science…
cwilcox | October 21, 2010Ok, you caught me! This post wasn't originally one of my Evolution series. It was written long before, and published in The Open Laboratory 2008. But it IS a post about evolution, and this week is all about evolution on Observations of a Nerd, so I say it counts!
It seems that you can't have a conversation about evolution that doesn't end with everyone involved feeling frustrated. You can't even mention the word 'evolution' without bringing up a political philippic, religious rant or scientific squabble. Unfortunately, this keeps everyone from the conversations that really matter - of course…
pharyngula | October 21, 2010And it is so cute and adorable. A while back, I laughed at the theocrats of Christian Governance. Apparently, the exposure stung, prompting one of them to write a whiny little rant. Here's how it begins:
It has been very interesting engaging with atheists over the past couple of weeks. They came looking for us, finding our website, it seems, due to exposure by a PZ Myers, a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota. Mr. Myers is brash about his own atheism, declaring that his website is about "Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless…
gregladen | October 20, 2010And the feds have taken notice...
Pastor Brad Brandon's loves to talk about the scriptures on his daily radio show, but it was what he spoke from the pulpit of his church, Berean Bible Baptist in Hastings, which has the attention of the federal government.
The 11 candidates he endorsed are listed on the church's website. The list includes Republican Tom Emmer for Governor, eight other republicans, an independent and a constitution candidate.
Brandon responded to a complaint by the Americans United for Separation of Church and State with the most moronic, idiotic, bone headed response…