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gregladen | June 15, 2010It's kind of subtle but if you read the words they say carefully, you can hear "kissy kissy" the whole time. Check it out: "Your ... fascinating"
Oh, and please DO leave a comment if you visit their site. That would be funny.
grrlscientist | June 14, 2010
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
The most recent issue of Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People); "Scientia Pro Publica 32: Biology Overload" was published by Philip at his blog, The Dichotomous Trekkie 2.0. This was Philip's first ever blog carnival, and he did an excellent job! So go there, leave some warm fuzzies for Philip, then read the linked essays and be sure to leave your comments on at least one of those essays, either telling those authors what they did well, or making…
gregladen | June 14, 2010Seriously. I am not making this up. Michele Bachmann, the so called "darling of the tea-baggers" (though I'm not sure why she's called that exactly) had done a full 180 on her policies regarding government involvement in stuff. Check it out.
cwilcox | June 14, 2010OK. Someone has to explain what this means.
This is a comment I got on my World Environment Day 2010 post. If you can decipher it, please explain...
Let me show you the FATE OF TRAITORS... loiterink.com/photos/products/182_3424_500x500.jpg they are incapable of telling the difference between SCIENTIFIC *FACT* AND RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL *TRUTH*... FATAL ERROR! they also preach a *VALUE FREE SCIENCE* called *POSITIVISM* that ignores the inequalities of wealth and power in capitalist civilization... for a sample taste of PZ Myers' GARBAGE... scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/06/…
gregladen | June 14, 2010Well, yes. And some of it is discussed in the book "Evidence of Evolution." You may be interested in this PDF download of a chapter courtesy of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE)
cortex | June 14, 2010The Yale psychologist Paul Bloom has written an excellent new book, How Pleasure Works, that I had the pleasure of blurbing. The book elegantly refutes the idea that our pleasures are mere sensations, or that our delight can be neatly reduced into some ingredient list of superficial perceptions. Instead, Bloom emphasizes the importance of essentialism, which is the instinctive belief that everything in the world has an underlying reality, or true nature, or essence.
We are all natural essentialists. Frank Keil, a psychologist at Yale, has done some interesting work that captures this…
gregladen | June 14, 2010I suppose it might be if the hypothesis was very intelligently designed .... But the problem is not just in the question. It's in the presumptions the question relies on. August Berkshire explores the idea here. Please go read this and comment!
gregladen | June 14, 2010That is the question being posed at AnswerBlog. I'm not sure what I think of AnswerBlog (they violate one of the prime directives of web design ... stuffing unrequested crap into your clipboard, so I'm reserving judgment), but I thought you might like to address the question .
clock | June 13, 2010A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.
- Euripides
gregladen | June 13, 2010That is the question that South Carolina State Senator Jake "You're a Raghead" Knotts claims that the press should have asked one of his political targets, Nikki Haley. This interesting suggestion ... that the press check out a person's Kristian Kreds ... comes along with Senator Jake the Jerk's statement that he "could care less" about being censured by virtually every Republican organized body that has the power to do so for his raghead remarks. Little does he know the true meaning of the phrase "I could care less." Actually, little does he know. Period.
I just heard the other day that…
gregladen | June 13, 2010
Many endemic species. Much water. When cattle were first introduced here, they found too little food to survive, so this region has suffered less from that sort of blight than other regions (thus the numerous endemic species, perhaps?)
grrlscientist | June 13, 2010
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
The most recent issue of Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People); "Scientia Pro Publica 32: Biology Overload" was published by Philip at his blog, The Dichotomous Trekkie 2.0. This was Philip's first ever blog carnival, and he did an excellent job! So go there, leave some warm fuzzies for Philip, then read the linked essays and be sure to leave your comments on at least one of those essays, either telling those authors what they did well, or making…
gregladen | June 13, 2010A block quote:
"Foursquare is a little bit of everything--a friend-finder, a local city guide, an interactive mobile game," said company cofounder Dennis Crowley, as if reading from the same tired script used by every one of these Web 2.0 or whatever-the-fuck-they're-called startups. "But more than that, Foursquare is an [endless string of meaningless buzzwords we just couldn't bring ourselves to transcribe]."
Obligatory link to some dumb site