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gregladen | February 6, 2010Officials say no one was inside the Joshua Temple Firstborn Church on Sheriff Road this afternoon when a tree fell onto the roof of the church and the weight of the tree and snow made the roof collapse.
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God is punishing these people for a reason. We just need to figure out why by reference to scripture and historical analysis. Like this.
gregladen | February 6, 2010Michel Bachmann has organized a teabagging protest in Washington to bring right wing voters from across the nation directly into armed and ready, whites of the eye contact with members of Congress to demand that they pass legislation to end the current Snobama that is paralyzing politics and traffic in Washington D.C.
Unfortunately, all 123 Snobama protesting teabaggers got stuck in the snow crossing the mountains in Virginia on their way to Washington so the protest was canceled.
grrlscientist | February 6, 2010
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
The next edition of Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is less than two weeks away and it is seeking submissions! Can you help by sending URLs for well-written science, medicine, and nature blog essays to me?
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gregladen | February 6, 2010
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gregladen | February 6, 2010The baby's sleeping right next to me right now, so I can't watch this, but I'm looking forward to it:
Recreational genetics and self-identity (09:11)
Do racial categories have a biological basis? (09:52)
Will gene sequencing undermine racism? (05:37)
Ways to make awesome babies (12:39)
Are most of us crazy or are we both crazy and stupid? (10:34)
Politicians, scientists, and other nutcases (09:23)
Go here to see it.
tqa | February 6, 2010
The things Zuska has to say often make me uncomfortable, and the way she says them often irritates the hell out of me. But I still read her blog, because she almost always makes me think about things in ways I hadn't before. Her post about the recent Lindsey Vonn Sports Illustrated cover is a great example of all of that.
Rudeness makes me want to stop reading. The "d00dz", "ladybraned ladeez", "mansplaining", and generalized sarcasm and condescension that littered Zuska's post irritated the hell out of me. But after spending just a small amount of time on actually looking at the issue, I'…
pharyngula | February 5, 2010It must be. I'm reading the results of a poll of Republicans, and the answers don't make sense. For example, look at this one result:
Do you believe Barack Obama wants the terrorists to win?
Yes 24
No 43
Not Sure 33
A quarter of Republicans think our president is rooting for the terrorists? That's simply nuts.
Read the rest. The percentages for absurd questions like whether Obama is a socialist are unbelievable enough, but when it gets to the issues it simply gets worse. 77% want the Bible taught in the schools, for instance.
Maybe I should just stay in Ireland.
gregladen | February 5, 2010Check out the latest cover of Sports Illustrated.
The Raging Grannies address the Super Bowl Ad maneno.
kthompson | February 5, 2010Zooillogix ran across some groundbreaking research being done on tapeworms. The linked abstract below takes you into the life of a tapeworm with extraordinary first hand detail. Enjoy.
I rate this PG-13
Truly, a remarkable piece of science. Only the best for Zooillogix readers.
gregladen | February 5, 2010.... because they always shoot first! And it turns out that reaction is faster than action, so the Marshall can shoot the Varmint Bad Guy, and the Sar Wars Storm Troopers didn't have a chance.
[Niels] Bohr was seemingly unhappy with the Tinseltown explanation that the good guy, who never shoots first, always wins. Legend has it that he procured two toy pistols and enlisted the aid of fellow physicist George Gamow. In a series of duels, Bohr never drew first but won every time. The physicist suggested that the brain responded to danger faster than it carried out a deliberate intention.…
gregladen | February 5, 2010There is a certain religion in which a man utters the same prayer every morning on waking. He says "Thank you god, that I was not born a woman."
That sounds really bad. But then you read this and it all makes sense: What pregnant women won't tell you. Ever.
gregladen | February 5, 2010Journal Retracts Study Backing Vaccine-Autism Link
Narcotic Therapy Contracts
Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies
gregladen | February 5, 2010Be aware: The USPTO will no longer accept USD (up-side-down) faxes. You are now informed.
Details.
mspringer | February 5, 2010I'm still not happy about NASA scrapping Ares and the manned lunar/Martian plans, but I'm less unhappy than I was. As long as unmanned planetary science picks up most of the slack I'll grudgingly deal with it. The extra earth science is still stupid; if you want more of that, get NSF or NOAA to do it.
Mars exploration has been back in the news recently too, with the Spirit rover finally breaking down and getting stuck in place permanently. This is pretty impressive - it was originally designed to work for 90 days but here it is still functioning 6 years later. Even as a stationary…
cortex | February 5, 2010The neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga has written a lovely appreciation of Jorge Luis Borges in the latest Nature (not online). Quiroga focuses on Borges interest in neuroscience, which led him to write his classic short story Funes the Memorious, about a man who cannot forget:
In the story of Funes, Borges described very precisely the problems of distorted memory capacities well before neuroscience caught up...In a study using electrodes to probe the hippocampus in epileptic patients for clinical reasons, we identified a type of neuron that fires in response to particular abstract…
ddobbs | February 5, 2010
From Physorg
Five crates of Scotch whisky and two of brandy have been recovered by a team restoring an Antarctic hut used more than 100 years ago by famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Five cases of Scotch and two of brandy, and all of it heavy. You can see the importance Shackleton put on a good nightcap
This puts me in mind of John Wesley Powell's Grand Canyon expedition, as described in his classic account of same. Powell had nearly as trying an adventure as Shackleton did â an 8, I would say, to Shackleton's 10 â and when he and his party finally emerged from the canyon into the…
grrlscientist | February 5, 2010
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
The next edition of Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is less than two weeks away and it is seeking submissions! Can you help by sending URLs for well-written science, medicine, and nature blog essays to me?
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a traveling blog carnival that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing targeted specifically to the public that has been published in the blogosphere within the past 60 days.
The…