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Greg Laden

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.

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December 2, 2007
A sizable fraction of the international business community launched an effort to press for mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions yesterday, on the eve of a major round of climate negotiations set to begin Monday in Bali. In an unprecedented show of solidarity, leaders from 150 global companies…
December 2, 2007
The Courier Journal is a regular normal every-day newspaper out of Louisville, Kentucky. James K. Willmot is a normal every-day former science teacher at a Goshen Kentucky school. He works in a lab now in Britain, but he's from Louisville. The following Op Ed in the Courier-Journal by James…
December 2, 2007
... the fish were terrified ....
December 2, 2007
December 2, 2007
Here we have another example of the link between Christian religion, Creationism, and Dishonesty. This time, it is in the post-game analysis of John West's talk at the University of Minnesota, posted on the Discovery Institutes's Web Site. The post by Bruce Chapman, who was not at the talk, is…
December 2, 2007
Grrl Scientist took one of those crazy on line polls and discovered that she's a holiday girl. She notes that the answers to the question "What's your holiday personality?" seems always positive and festive and crap no matter what you answer, and notes "I mean, who wants to be told they are a…
December 1, 2007
This is interesting: 30.11.2007 / 16:23 WWII army bag is found in desert LONDON. November 30. KAZINFORM. A bag belonging to a World War II soldier from Lancashire has been discovered in the Egyptian desert after lying there for more than 60 years. Alec Ross, from Burnley, lost the bag containing…
December 1, 2007
John Lynch is reporting: ID supporters seem to like Antony Flew, the one-time atheist philosopher who has apparently seen the light and become a deist. They have awarded him the Phillip Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth, they have lauded his latest book, and Bill Dembski exclaims "God bless…
December 1, 2007
Never, Ever run with a Deer Antler unless you KNOW HOW TO HOLD IT PROPERLY.From Shelley Batts Blog.
December 1, 2007
Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), this day in history, 1953
December 1, 2007
According to my Linux Calendar, this is the anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to move to the back of the bus AND of Martin Luther King's boycott two years later, AND the independence of both Portugal and the Central African Republic And it is even Anniversary Day in Chatham Islands (when everyone…
December 1, 2007
The pope, Benedict XVI, released an encyclical on Friday stating that atheism was responsibile for great cruelties and violations of justice. In fact, for some of the worst such wrongs in all of history. He offered, as an alternative to athesims, well, actually, catholicism. I call "Bias!"…
December 1, 2007
A quick update on the effects of Sidr on the world's largest Mangrove Swamp. The world's largest mangrove forest bore the brunt of the cyclone that smashed into Bangladesh on November 15, killing more than 3,200 people and wiping out thousands of villages. "The cyclone has left huge devastation…
December 1, 2007
It has always been suggested, by a wide range of evidence, that australopiths in general, and robust australopiths in particular, have a higer degree of sexual dimorphism than chimps, and possibly, dimorphism in body size as high as one sees in any ape. Resent research on growth patterns, just…
December 1, 2007
Yes, you read that right. Finally, the guy has something to contribute: (you may want to watch only the first minutes or so) O'Reilly's point is that every American has the responsibility to take it in the butt from George Bush, no matter what he says.
December 1, 2007
One time I found an intact skeleton of a large python that had eaten an antelope, but died with the antelope still inside. Cool. But this is even cooler: A fossilized shark that swallowed a crocodile-like amphibian that, in turn, had gobbled up a fish has now been unearthed. This exceptional…
November 30, 2007
The 1920s. It was a sad, sad time in America. All the biologists got together and, inspired by Darwinian writings, embarked on a campaign to sterilize those they perceived as unfit, the campaign known to us as Eugenics. From Eugenics grew other evils, such as Planned Parenthood, Modern…
November 30, 2007
In Genesis 4, we see specific reference to herdsmen and farmers as distinct groups, represented by Abel and Cain, respectively. God indicates a preference for the results of herding over planting, and the sibling troubles that ensue result in the world becoming a difficult place to farm, and…
November 30, 2007
Headline: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin DALLAS (Reuters Life!) - More Americans believe in a literal hell and the devil than Darwin's theory of evolution, according to a new Harris poll released on Thursday. It is the latest survey to highlight America's deep level of…
November 30, 2007
Hot off the presses from PNAS, we have a paper on ancient jade exchange in Southeast Asia. From the abstract: We have used electron probe microanalysis to examine Southeast Asian nephrite (jade) artifacts, many archeologically excavated, dating from 3000 B.C. through the first millennium A.D.…
November 30, 2007
PZ Myers at Pharyngula examines this question in an entirely different case. This is the case of 14 year old Jehovah Witness Dennis Linberg. Dennis died on Wednesday night at a Seattle area hospital because he refused to accept a life saving transfusion on religious grounds. This is, indeed, a…
November 30, 2007
This is the tag line for an article in yesterday's Minneapolis Star Tribune: Where punishment drifts into abuse is the issue in the case of a father who hit his son 36 times. In this case, the "drifting" occurred because... When Shawn Fraser's discipline failed to rein in his 12-year-old son, he…
November 29, 2007
Morons are so annoying. Even the ones that are just passing by, the ones you don't really have to talk to. These days I often have lunch in a public dining area where most of the patrons are scientists or geeks, or students learning to become scientists or geeks. The other day two geeky…
November 29, 2007
The blog Afarensis brings us an amusing yet at the same time disturbing discussion of the Discovery Institute's Casey Luskin concerns about the reliability of Wikipedia as a source of information for students. This is hysterically funny because of the fact that Casey Luskin and all the others at…
November 29, 2007
12 Days of the War on Christmas (Fox Style)
November 29, 2007
Genesis 2 ends with Adam and Eve being naked yet not ashamed. In Genesis 3, the Serpent, who is wiser than average, tricks Eve into partaking of the forbidden fruit of one of god's two magic trees. This results in Adam and Eve recognizing their own nakedness, and compelling them to produce the…
November 29, 2007
One of my best friends, who shall remain nameless for the present, a scientist, an atheist, a heavily decorated soldier in the war on Christmas, raised two wonderful, brilliant children, on of which being a devote catholic now in training to be a very devote catholic. Like a priest or something. I…