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July 26, 2008
Greg Laden's Blog
A Blog Around The Clock
Potential abuse of users' privacy in Serbia Serbia: New Instructions and Law Regulations on Online Privacy: On July 21, RATEL, Serbia's Republican Agency for Telecommunications, posted a Document of Instructions for Technical Requirements for Subsystems, Devices, Hardware and Installation of Internet Networks on their official web site....
A Blog Around The Clock
Innumeracy and related academic turf-defenses.... Chad: Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos Tom: What Does the Public Really Need To Know?: Science/Math edition. Chad: The Innumeracy of Intellectuals Janet: Fear and loathing in the academy. Join in the fray.......
A Blog Around The Clock
An eye-catching yet flawed bar graph Discussed at these sites, among others: Chart junk-ies When bar charts go bad World's Most Expensive Places to Have Sex. Catch the flaw(s). Click here to see large. Go under the fold to see small:...
A Blog Around The Clock
Now that's old! Pandagon is six years old today! How many is this in dog years? Congrats Amanda, Pam, Jesse and the crew!...
Greg Laden's Blog
Tetrapod Zoology
Leopard vs crocodile (better late than never) Very late to the party here (the story was first published waaaaaay back on the 18th), but it just seems wrong not to cover this at Tet Zoo. Sincere apologies to the Bleiman brothers at Zooillogix and to John Lynch...
A Blog Around The Clock
What is 'citizen journalism'? From Jay Rosen: Save this movie as a reference when someone asks you to define a Citizen Journalism in the future.......
Uncertain Principles
A Dog's Life It was a lovely afternoon at Chateau Steelypips. I sat in the back yard reading a biography of Ernest Rutherford (about which more tomorrow), while Emmy guarded against intrusions of various sorts: squirrels, inferior dogs out for walks, the next-door...
A Blog Around The Clock
Left vs. Right online There has been a lot of chatter on the interwebs (for years, but again now) about the differences between the ways the political Left and Right use the Internet and blogs: GOP losing the new-media war: .......The right is engaged...
A Blog Around The Clock
Rise and Fall of HIgher Education Here is just a brief excerpt from Why I am Not a Professor OR The Decline and Fall of the British University: The more prosaic truth emerges when you scan the titles of these epics. First, the author rarely appears...
Afarensis
Happy Birthday To Me ... And Joshua Both Joshua and I share a birthday today. Rather than think about how many folks died on my birthday like Joshua is doing, I will share what I am getting for my birthday with you. Through the kindness of family...
Deltoid
Bellamy mystery solved Hey, remember when David Bellamy claimed? Indeed, if you take all the evidence that is rarely mentioned by the Kyotoists into consideration, 555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland, have...
Laelaps
Jurassic Fight Club A female Majungasaurus as envisaged by the creators of Jurassic Fight Club. Imagine, just for a moment, standing in the middle of a Cretaceous forest 70 million years ago. The sunlight streaming through the canopy catches dust motes in...
Pharyngula
Freethinkers of Indiana! I lived in Indiana for a short while long ago, and they didn't have any of these freethought groups in my neighborhood. It's good to see Hoosiers are wising up: FreeThought Fort Wayne is hosting Dr. Robert M. Price who...
Mixing Memory
He's Just a Frackin' Adolescent Ass Way, way back in September of 2005, a Danish newspaper published some cartoons depicting Muslims and their prophet, and in response, thousands of Muslim extremists responded with varying degrees of threatened and actual violence. As you all know, this resulted...
Pharyngula
I get email Good news! While I still get flooded with email every time Bill Donohue puts my address in a press release, I'm getting 90% fewer death threats! I think that maybe the example of Ms Kroll and her trollish husband has...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Pluvialis squatarola Another bird to look at and learn to identify as you prepare for a bird identification quiz on Monday!
Deltoid
Nice going, Atlantic Monthly Tom Bozzo at Angry Bear gives us a shorter Megan McArdle: I once heard these terms of art from the electricity industry. No quizzes! P.S., Al Gore is fat. Bonus McArdle on Gore: It is a funny but irrelevant fact...
Stranger Fruit
Book Review: Forsdyke “The Origin of Species Revisited” (A review from Journal of the History of Biology 2004) In the years following the publication of Origin of Species, George Romanes developed his theory of physiological selection in which he posited that "physiological peculiarities" lead to hybrid sterility between...
Greg Laden's Blog
The shit is hitting the fan in Nigeria Nigeria is where Western graduate students in political science who study corruption go to do their fieldwork. There appears to be an ensconced elite and externally connected ruling body and a down trodden underclass organized into various resistance groups. The discovery of abundant petroleum reserves in the Niger Delta and vicinity meant that the elite ruling group and external forces (including but not limited to Big Oil) have conspired to extract this resource at maximum profit largely setting aside the possibility of in situ development and long term improvement in areas of education, health care, infrastructure, and so on for actual Nigerians.
A Blog Around The Clock
Today's carnivals Tangled Bank #110 is up on Pharyngula...
Afarensis
Fallback Foods and The Diet of Australopithecines Physorg.Com has an interesting report on new research by Nate Dominy on underground storage units:...
Pharyngula
Tangled Bank #110 The Tangled Bank was scheduled to appear on the Blue Collar Scientist this week, but as many of you already know, Jeff was diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma, and obviously he has more important issues to tend. So let's leap...
evolgen
Crocodile Fishing Like all forms of fishing, you hurry up to find a good spot and then sit and wait.
- Uncertain Principles: The Innumeracy of Intellectuals
- A Blog Around The Clock : The importance of stupidity in scientific research
- Respectful Insolence: Oh no! My cell phone's going to kill me!
- evolgen: Attack of the Horny Peacock
- Greg Laden's Blog : Is McCain Even with Obama and Coleman Killing Franken in Minnesota?
- I get email PZ Myers
- Write to UCF PZ Myers
- Dr. Jay Gordon: No vaccines needed, just quit eating cheese and ice cream Orac
- The Innumeracy of Intellectuals Chad Orzel
- More Police Interference with Critical Blogs Ed Brayton
- Beck is Back und die Uni Bayreuth war dabei [Primaklima]
- Mehr Gewinn als Umsatz [Mathlog]
- Ghadhafis Sohn in Genf verhaftet: Der Vater rächt sich [zoon politikon]
- Der Stern zum Wochenende: Heute nicht! [Astrodicticum Simplex]
- Theodor W. Hänsch im ScienceBlogs-Interview [Video der Woche]
