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.
the poll that counts There is a ugly and annoying trope in American politics: All the politicians are the same; both major parties are the same; nobody ever really says anything different than anyone else; and for debates, nobody ever wins a debate. If you ask people who won the four debates…
1) Have a look at this interesting conversation going on about race and racism and related issues.
2) Someobody emailed me with an interest in hosting the Michele Bachmann carnival but I can't find the email!!!!! If this was you, please let me know!
Thank you very much. That is all for now.
.... NOT!
Once again, Barack Obama totally wins the debate.
This is Barack Obama after the debate:
This is John McCain after the debate:
Don't cry, John McCain, Georgie will make you feel better:
Just the salient points.
McCain does not want to spread the wealth around.
Obama wants to cut the 15 billion dollar subsidy to insurance companies.
Obama wants to invest in higher education.
McCain is taking copious notes as Obama speaks. Maybe he'll pick something up.
McCain is having a hard…
Well, ok, there is no Hell. So we're just going to tell Norm the truth and he's going to think it's hell.....
This item, from Tangled Up in Blue Guy (see THIS for more commentary) is absolutely outrageous. Unbelievable.
Watch this piece of video from a Norm Coleman ad showing how Al Franken…
I just wanted to point out the new Web Badge (to the left) that I've stuck on my side bar. This is the Open Access Day Synchroblogging Competition Winner badge.
Only those of us who have won the award can have the badge, so you better not download it and put it on your site. This is not some…
The creationist-biased Texas Board of Education has assembled a committee to 'review science curriculum standards.' This group includes a few actual scientist types, and ... pay attention folks .. Wisconsin based ID creationist Ralph Seelke, Baylor creationist chemist Charles Garner, and Stephen…
The latest polls are interesting. Locally we have Ashwin Madia in a statistical dead heat so if you are in Minnesota Congresstional District 3 it is NOW TIME to either volunteer or kick in a few bucks. Madia has an excellent chance of taking this seat away from the Republicans. The Minnesota…
Down below the fold where it says "CLICK HERE" .... don't click there! First, make sure the following things are true:
1) You are alone.
2) Your computer's sound is turned up.
2) Nobody can hear you.
OK, go...
CLICK HERE
Hat tip: Joe
They used to say that "The problem with Democrats is that the eat their own young."
Not any more.
Christopher Buckley, son of ultra conservative dit William F. Buckley, and an ultra conservative dit in his own right, came out with an endorsement of Barack Obama the other day, and as a result, has…
NEW:Replace Michele Bachmann Blog Carnival #3
Praxis #3
NEW: The Carnival of Evolution
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
Open Access Day - the blog posts
Carnival of Homeschooling: The Missing Day
Grand Rounds!
Consider the following words:
The evidence supporting evolution is overwhelming and comes from diverse disciplines, such as molecular biology, paleontology, comparative anatomy, ethology, and biochemistry. There is no controversy among biologists about whether evolution occurs, nor are there…
A team of archaeologists working offshore from Haifa, Israel in the Mediterranean has discovered both direct and indirect evidence of human tuberculosis. This is important because, if confirmed, the TB cases date to 3,000 years earlier than expected: The disease should not be in skeletons this…
Open Access Day
They said:
"if you publish
in an open forum
your paper'd be rubbish
and clearly hokum"
"pub's commercial know
how to review with the peerage,
how to make data flow
and hurdles clearage"
"limited space on the page
with every new edition
so few make the passage,
it's editorial…
'Would Richard Stallman insist that the baby be called GNU/Linux? Does a baby named Linux go to sleep and wake up without problems? How often does he outgrow his footwear and require a reboot?'
All the answers and more are here.
Is now up at Almost Diamonds, and contains gems such as:
The latest statement by Bachmann that has the national onlookers up in arms (and falling down with laughter) is her statement that we don't need to worry about the environment and global warming, because the planet's already been saved--by…
A very good day of grunting worms. Credit: Ken Catania So-called Gene-Culture Co-Evolution can be very obvious and direct or it can be very subtle and complex. In almost all cases, the details defy the usual presumptions people make about the utility of culture, the nature of human-managed…
The SpamMimic web application is available for free use and ...will allow you to encode to your choice of generic SPAM, weakly-encrypted SPAM, fake PGP SPAM and fake Russian SPAM. ... If someone's looking for dirt on you, they'll always go for the encrypted PGP ( or GPG) emails you have (assuming…
Carnival Of the Godless 102: Mission Impossible
Gene Genie 38: Back in action!
Praxis #2
The Giant's Shoulders: third edition
Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival
Carnival of the Green #148
Carnival of Homeschooling presents: The Simple Pleasures of Homeschooling
October Scribes Blog Carnival
Book Review…
This is Melisa Riviere. White People sometimes do hip hop. I have a reading suggestion for you. First a little background.
I've gotten into a few arguments on race and racism in my time, some on this blog. Racist thinking is all around us. Why just a few hours ago, a neighbor complained…
Do not delay. Do not equivocate. Do not think twice. Just get to the theater and buy your tickets, find a seat, turn off your cell phone, and sit back and enjoy Bill Maher's Religulous!
In this film, Maher makes a handful of critically important points. Like, if our world is led by people who are…
I know a man who is best friends with Huey Newton. I know a woman to who took a class from a professor who is suspected of building a bomb used to blow up (part of) a building in the 1960s. I am closely related to a person who shall remain nameless who was under investigation by the FBI for…
Son of Buckley is, in fact, also a Buckley. Christopher, to be exact, and pretty much as conservative as his dad.
"It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup [sic] are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance," Buckley, a columnist for the conservative National Review, wrote on the Web site The…
