Greg Laden is a biological anthropologist and science communicator. His research has covered North American prehistoric and historic archaeology and African archaeology and human ecology. He is an OpenSource and OpenAccess advocate. Greg's wife, Amanda, is a High School biology teacher, his daughter Julia is a world traveler and his son Huxley is 2.
Oh wait, sorry, they weren't "women" exactly ...
they were High School Students. Beaten by school officials. But wait, they weren't really "beaten" exactly ... they were "paddled." Oh, and the fashion choice ... they were prom dresses that were to revealing, breaking a school dress code that a…
... for those interested ...
I had a pretty good visit to surgeon today. To date I have been instructed to not use my quads, but for the next two weeks I'm instructed to use them in a limited way (in a highly controlled manner). At the same time, I'm to carry out more aggressive joint…
This might be a little over-determined for my taste, but it does look interesting, and as far as I can tell is currently maintained.
The project home page is here
CHAI RANT!!!11!!
It is time for another Chai Rant.
Years ago, about the twentieth word I learned in KiSwahili was "chai" ... which, if you know Kiswahili you would immediately recognize as a borrowed term becasue it is a very unlikely set of phonemes for that language. In KiSwahili, Chai means tea…
First, there was plain and simple creationism, a Christian idea that, in an ideal Christian world, would be taught as part of any science dealing with the past, including biology (evolution), geology, and presumably history.
But the constitution stood in the way of implementing basic Christian…
This Month's Wikio Rankings of Top Science Blogs is as follows:
1
Wired Science - Wired Blog
2
Watts Up With That?
3
Climate Progress
4
RealClimate
5
Bad Astronomy
6
Climate Audit
7
Next Generation Science
8
Respectful Insolence
9
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
10
The Frontal…
When the science writer Simon Singh sat down to write an opinion piece on chiropractors two years ago, he could have had little inkling of the nightmare that lay ahead.
Yesterday, after a court of appeal ruling hailed as a "resounding victory" for Singh, he has been spared having to stand up in…
And now, it is time for the April 1st edition of Four Stone Hearth, the four field Anthropological Blog Carnival.
Our first submission is from Somatosphere, a blog about Science, Medicine and Anthropology, and it is about the discover of Big Foot in the Poconos Mountains of Pennsylvania! No…
Subtitle: Republican Annoyed by Uppity Blacks with Phones
Watch and listen, and marvel at it. Marvel at the attitude of the caller, which I'm sure is fairly widespread. Marvel as well at the way the host handles the call. For which he should be fired instantly.
There was another way to handle…
This is not only the true story of easter, but it is also a commentary on which is better, cats or dogs. Verily, many mysteries are explained in this epic documentary:
h/t: Julia
Various environmental organizations have been using imagery of dead baby birds with toothbrushes in their guts and solid floating masses of garbage to describe and raise alarm about what has become known as the North Pacific Central Garbage Patch. Yet, the small but important amount of research…
Have you ever watched the documentary The Corporation? If not, you must.
It is now available on YouTube and everywhere else, but as an experiment, I've embedded the Hulu version of it here:
... Kevin Bales explains the business of modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that underpins some of the worst industries on earth. He shares stats and personal stories from his on-the-ground research -- and names the price of freeing every slave on earth right now.
Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India's slums by looking past the daunting statistics and focusing on treating each child as an individual.
Shukla Bose is the founder…
Today, Marcy 30th ....
Beams collided at 7 TeV in the LHC at 13:06 CEST, marking the start of the LHC research programme. Particle physicists around the world are looking forward to a potentially rich harvest of new physics as the LHC begins its first long run at an energy three and a half times…
NCSE's Josh Rosenau organized a Netroots Nation panel on science denial. Featured speakers: Josh, Bryan Rehm, Michael Stebbins, Mark Sumner, Susan Wood
NCSE
Supposedly:
The world's largest atom smasher has set a new record for high-energy atom collisions - with three times more force than ever before.
I had no idea it was pronounced "Kern" ... I thought it was "Sern."
