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gregladen | March 16, 2009
Sort of techno jazz fusion. And yes, there really is going to be a Jaunty Jackelope. Whcih, I think, is the first non-real animal to use for an Ubuntu release.
Hat tip: Javier
j7uy5 | March 15, 2009An opinion article (
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123689292159011723.html">There's
No Pill for This Kind of Depression) in the Wall Street Journal
contained the following unsupported claim:
The sale of antidepressants and antianxiety drugs is
widespread. In New York their use became common after 9/11. It
continued through and, I hypothesize, may have contributed to, the
high-flying, wildly imprudent Wall Street of the '00s. We look for
reasons for the crash and there are many, but I wonder if Xanax, Zoloft
and Klonopin, when taken by investment bankers, lessened what might
have…
gregladen | March 15, 2009EFCA stands for the Employee Free Choice Act, and it is the controversial US federal bill that would change the way Unions can be formed in the workplace. This bill is so controversial that it is one of the reasons that the Republican Party is willing to do whatever it takes to keep the Minnesota Senate Recount going as long as possible (the Republicans oppose the bill, as they oppose all that is Union).
Having said that, it is very true that most people don't really know diddly squat about the EFCA, yet most of the same ingoramouses (myself included1) manage to have an opinion about it.…
gregladen | March 15, 2009Rachel has a flashback ... And ends up in Minnesota.
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gregladen | March 15, 2009Four Stone Hearth, the Anthro Web Carnival, is here, at Osteologiska Foreningen.
gregladen | March 15, 2009Is supposed to be HERE, but until I see definitive proof, I'm not buying it.
gregladen | March 15, 20091) No matter how secure the secret government facility, there will always be an unguarded network of tube-like service entrances;
2) The head of the most important secret government agency, charged with the greatest of responsibilities, will be a knuckle headed moron;
3) No matter how many people are after you, using all sorts of equipment, there is always time for a long good bye;
4) A man can be slammed on the floor, wall, and ceiling by a Golem-like evil monster bad guy as many times as you like and he'll be fine. If he's The Rock; and
5) Race to Witch Mountain is a good movie.
Escape…
gregladen | March 15, 2009Are you the only person on the planet who has not seen this documentary yet?
More here.
gregladen | March 14, 2009Do we need any more evidence that banks are evil? That the anti-union movement is evil?
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gregladen | March 14, 2009It used to be a festival of fun created and celebrated by geeks but with no official recognition. Now, National Pi Day is a legal holiday in the US (but not one you get to take a day off of work for).
Washington politicians took time from bailouts and earmark-laden spending packages on Wednesday for what might seem like an unusual act: officially designating a National Pi Day.
That's Pi as in ratio-of-a-circle's-circumference-to-diameter, better known as the mathematical constant beginning with 3.14159.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution introduced two days…
grrlscientist | March 14, 2009Here's the latest carnivalia for you to enjoy;
The Just Write Blog Carnival, 13 March 2009 Edition. This blog carnival is large and includes a wide variety of interesting submissions from around the blogosphere.
My mention of the Carnival of Family Life is late, but it's better than never!
cortex | March 14, 2009This is disturbing stuff. According to the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences, No-Lie MRI has recently produced a report that's being offered as evidence in a California court.
The case is a child protection hearing being conducted in the juvenile court. In brief, and because the details of the case are sealed and of a sensitive nature, the issue is whether a minor has suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a custodial parent and should remain removed from the home. The parent has contracted No Lie MRI and apparently undergone a brain scan.
The defense plans to claim the fMRI-…
grrlscientist | March 14, 2009
I receive a fair number of books to review each week, so I thought I should do what several magazines and other publications do; list those books that have arrived in my mailbox so you know that this is the pool of books from which I will be reading and reviewing on my blog.
Open Lab 2008 (2009). Read more about it. I contributed to this book.
Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America-and Found Unexpected Peace by William Lobdell (Collins; 2009). I requested this title and am almost finished reading it.
Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets by…
sb admin | March 14, 2009by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure
There is a good summary by Robert Roos at CIDRAP News about the $420 billion spending bill signed by President Obama this week to cover the next six months. The good news edges out the bad news, so the net is positive, a welcome change from the kind of deeply depressing budget news to which we became accustomed during the Bush years. Bush took a teetering public health system whose decline started with Reagan and continued through Clinton and put it on life support. Now a couple of items in the spending bill have upped the oxygen slightly but don'…
gregladen | March 14, 2009
And ... WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!
Oh, I don't think Glen Beck is excusing the killer. He's blaming mass murder on the Democrats and Liberals. Subtle but important difference.
Hat Tip Dump Bachmann
gregladen | March 14, 2009We're all stupid on facebook, but maybe this guy was extra stupid:
"A man on trial in New York for possession of a weapon has been acquitted after subpoenaing his arresting officer's Facebook and MySpace accounts. His defense: Officer Vaughan Ettienne's MySpace 'mood' was set to 'devious' on the day of the arrest, and one day a few weeks before the trial, his Facebook status read 'Vaughan is watching "Training Day" to brush up on proper police procedure.'
source: /.
I've noticed that many of my Facebook friends have the proverbial hazy picture of themselves getting sloshed on umbrella drinks…
mspringer | March 14, 2009Whew! Busy week for me, hence the missing post or two. Traditionally Saturdays on this blog tend to be non-physics fare - either links, commentary on something nonscientific, or whatever. Today I think it will be the celebration of Pi Day!
Pi Day: As you know from the SB main page, today is pi day. 3/14, representing the famous number 3.14159265359...
You first meet is as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. As you go on in math, you meet it pretty much everywhere else too. Seriously everywhere.
There's also a Pi Approximation Day, on 7/22. Which of course only…
pharyngula | March 14, 2009It's another long travel day for me, I'm afraid, and this after a long night of trying to keep up with a lively mob of 20 and 30 year olds at a bar in Champaign-Urbana (and giving a talk yesterday that I think went over fairly well — I even had protesters outside! For a talk on the history and philosophy of embryology!) So I'll leave you with a link to Wesley Elsberry's summary of Richard Dawkins' talk in Michigan. That'll give you something meaty to argue over until I get back to calm, quiet Morris.
And then, next week…Spring Break! We're just going to have wild parties every day here on…