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.
Through the filter of time ... a repost that may still be interesting to you from two years ago.
The NYT is running a piece discussing the domestication of the cat.
I love watching wild cats. It is fairly easy to see them in the Kalahari, where the population of cats is almost certainly…
I just got this massive continental plate sized press release from JPL. Below the fold.
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NASA Gives California's San Andreas, Other Faults a 3-D Close-up
When a swarm of hundreds of small to moderate earthquakes erupted beneath California's Salton Sea in March,…
One in four South African men ... said they had raped someone ... three out of four who admitted rape attacked for the first time while in their teens.
... practices such as gang rape were common because they were considered a form of male bonding.
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The research was conducted in both rural and…
People like to help pregnant women.
On buses it is routine to give up one's seat for a pregnant woman. In Boston, drivers try less hard to run over pregnant women in crosswalks. And so on. But sometimes good intentions can lead to bad advice.
First, I'd like to point out that there is…
The Minnesota Supreme Court spokesperson Lissa "No-that-is-not-a-typo" Finne has told Greg Sargent's Blog that the other blogs suggesting that the court would issue a decision today are incorrect. Finne indicates that sometimes the court tells the involved parties on Monday about a decision on…
PETA has become the laughing stock of the Planet Earth when it called for a change in US government policy regarding the swatting of flies by the POTUS.
From the PETA web site:
Well, I guess it can't be said that President Obama wouldn't hurt a fly. The commander in chief was recently pestered by a…
The Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival is up at Wanna Be an Anthropologist. Please visit the carnival, click on all the links, digg up and stumble all the entries, etc.
According to various sources which can not be named but that are being reported by the Capitol Report, the Minnesota Supreme Court is likely to make a decision today, Thursday, June 18th. If the decision is anything other than to support (uphold) the decision of the three judge panel which…
So, Amanda had some 400 photographs that needed to be viewed, selected from (maybe a several dozen selected), then each chosen photo converted to jpeg format, resized to 100o pixels wide and saved.
She began the process on her Windoze laptop. The first photograph took about a minute or two.…
Linux in Exile has refined the empirical test of which operating system boots more often. Details and discussion here.
Of course, it also matters that Windows requires constant rebooting for the purpose of routine maintanance, while Linux does not, so the total 'boot wait' time (TBWT) for the two…
I had no idea that there were Public Broadcasting Stations that aired church services and such things. I suppose this is because I don't live in Alabama or someplace.
Anyway, PBS has done (mostly) the right thing by baning this practice.
The Public Broadcasting Service agreed yesterday to ban its…
Michele Bachmann has publically vowed to refuse to answer any of the questions aside from the number of people in her household for the upcoming census. This could land her a 5K fine.
Bachmann is avoiding the census because Acorn may be involved in recruiting people for the process. It is well…
Minnesota Post reports from the Minnesota Independent a Twitter Report from Matt HIll indicating that Al Franken and Norm Coleman were on the same flight to Washington DC yesterday.
The outgoing Senator, Coleman was in First Class. Franken was in Coach.
Just thought you'd like to know....
The following press release has just come across my virtual desk:
Letter from Conservative Leaders Implores Senators to Filibuster Hate Crimes Bill
MEDIA ADVISORY, June 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- This week, a letter is being hand-delivered to every member of the United States Senate imploring…
Last week, federal agents swooped in on 23 of the 24 people indicted on charges of stealing archaeological artifacts from public land and Indian reservations in the Southwest. But after a 60-year-old physician committed suicide over the weekend, Utah senators are saying the raid was overkill.
The…
Help out Chad with his latest data collection effort:
Of course, I can't very well ask people to leave comments about how messed-up the comments are, so I've been forced to resort to something higher-tech...
A POLL!!
Cloud Appreciation Society agrees. Scientists skeptical, but considering the possibilities ....
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As Bill Nye says, it could all be a matter of perspective ...
The Republican Party is looking for direction. They want ideas about policy, and in particular, about how to react to the Obama administration's positions on a number of issues.
You can help them. This may take a few minutes of time but you may find it .... interesting.
Mike Haubrich has the…
Maddow on torture. "I make up stories."
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We need to just get these documents out now, in full.
Deborah Halber, News Office Correspondent
April 11, 2007
The public persona of the Atom is mild-mannered physics professor Ray Palmer, who fashioned a lens that enabled him to shrink any object to any degree he wished. The lens's secret ingredient is a chunk of a white dwarf star, and a 1960s…
For those of you interested in Super Heroes, check this out:
Superhero alter-ego Steve Rogers - the original Captain America - is to come back from the dead in a new five-part Marvel Comic series.
The first part of Captain America Reborn will be out in the US on 1 July, but its makers will not say…
Here is the Guinea Worm Movie, and for more information and additional links, click here.
Minor Africa Story hidden below the fold.
A small Jimmy Carter story: A friend of mine got a job, while in his first or second year of graduate school, as in intern for the State Department. Since he…
[On June 19th] we'll be talking about Astronomy with popular author and super-blogger Phil Plait!
And, as usual, we have a lot of questions.
Like, why is Pluto now not a planet? What's NASA up to lately? And what's the deal with the Hubble Telescope? How do we know we really landed on the moon? Is…
