November 17, 2007
Larry Moran asks this question in this post, and this post.
November 16, 2007
Yet another way to make fun of the Creationists, the LOL Creashun Contest.
This is hybrid of cat blogging and blasphemy.
=
November 16, 2007
This is the second in a series of reposts from gregladen.com on global warming.
Why Greenhouses have nothing to do with the Greenhouse Effect, and more importantly, why CAN'T I microwave toast?
A greenhouse is a glass house that is sealed to keep air in and insulated to keep heat in but at the…
November 16, 2007
Most New York University students would give up their right to vote for a full year's tuition. One in five will give up their right to vote for an iPod touch.
But only on a year by year basis. To get someone to give up their right to vote forever, you need to pay one million dollars. Two…
November 16, 2007
Here is a preliminary list of resources for people to find out more about Intelligent Design. Please feel free to put this on your own site. If you want, email me and I'll send you the HTML code to make this one step easier. But you can also, if you are using Firefox, use "ctrl-u" to display the…
November 16, 2007
The Discovery Institute continues its terrorist-like tactics in the wake of a very successful airing of an anti-creationism Public Broadcasting System documentary.
The DI is providing helpful information for teachers and administrators who want to cost their school districts millions in legal…
November 16, 2007
Here are the first three working group reports:
Working Group I Report "The Physical Science Basis"
Working Group II Report "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability"
Working Group III Report "Mitigation of Climate Change"
The fourth report is said to be completed but is not yet posted. Likely,…
November 16, 2007
Go here, read this.
November 16, 2007
Hot off the presses:
When some of the world's leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They'll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose growing pop culture fame gets laughs but also raises…
November 16, 2007
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum are saying that it is now time to start plugging for donations for relief for Bangladesh in the wake of Sidr. I mildly disagree. Let me explain.
At this moment, I have yet to find a single on line secular vehicle for donating to this particular issue. If you go…
November 16, 2007
Do you remember the Christmas Tsunami? I remember well that it was a good example of the public's demand for knowing the death toll and the press's demand to feed that need interacting with a crappy network of information flow, to the extent that the early death tolls counts were utterly absurd…
November 16, 2007
Birds evolved during the Mesozoic, during the various "Ages" of the dinosaurs, as a subset of those dinosaurs. Many researchers believe that these early birds were different from their then very close dinosaur cousins because of their flight adaptations, and some have linked this idea to flight-…
November 15, 2007
A little news, a couple of tips.
First, this news:
Ubuntu is extremely popular on the desktop, but it's made comparatively little progress on servers. That's about to change. Dell is expected to announce in the first quarter of 2008 that it has certified Ubuntu Linux for its server lines.
In an…
November 15, 2007
I like to report advanced technology that runs open source systems, like LInux.
From Manufactum of Germany, we have a two pound PC, running Linux, of course, just over seven inches maximum dimension. It runs at 500 MHz, can handle a gig of RAM (default 512 MB) and an 80 gig hard drive. It is pre…
November 15, 2007
All of the following stories have one thing in common: They relate to the Nature-Nurture issue.
Environment plays key role in children's readiness for school from PhysOrg.com
Early school success seems to depend largely on children entering school ready to learn, and many policy initiatives…
November 15, 2007
"Too bad for you..." says President George Bush.
US President George W. Bush on Tuesday (Nov 13) vetoed a spending bill that aimed to boost federal funding for the National Institutes of Health. The bill, which was passed by Congress last week, sought to increase NIH funding by about $1 billion…
November 15, 2007
Look at this. See, mangrove swamps don't slow you down. Sidr has been over "land" for hours and it is still a Cat-3 storm. And heading for much more populated areas.
November 15, 2007
Disturbing news regarding the San Fran Bay oil spill from the New York Times:
The captain and crewmen of a Chinese ship responsible for an oil spill after hitting the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge have refused to speak to federal investigators, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety…
November 15, 2007
I wish I had time right now to explore this, but you don't need me when you have A Blog Around the Clock covering it so fully. Go read about the cool new (old) dinosaur.
November 15, 2007
The Eye of Sidr has crossed the coast as expected.
BBC World News web site has yet to mention the event. I guess the Brits are really pissed off about the whole post-colonial thing.
CNN has this:
Tropical Cyclone Sidr swept in from the Bay of Bengal packing winds of 149 mph (240 kilometers per…
November 15, 2007
Repost from gregladen.com
One day, about six thousand years ago (or more like 15 thousand ... the timing of this is disputed) a volcano in the vicinity of Mwea, Uganda blasted a huge volume of stuff into the air, covering the surrounding landscape and choking off most of the life forms living in a…
November 15, 2007
Storm Tracking on the Weather Underground
Check the most current post on Chris Mooney's site.
Jeff Master's Blog at Weather Underground (Comprehensive information posted at least daily)
A blog from Bangladesh
Other Science Blogers and Commentaries:
A Blog Around the Clock
Pharyngula
News:…
November 15, 2007
The deadliest cyclone ever is said to have been the 1970 Bhola cyclone in Bangladesh. Perhaps a half million people died in that storm. That would be more than the number who died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
The Bhola Cyclone was a category 3 storm. Cyclone Sidr, now bearing down on the…
November 15, 2007
The situation, as predicted by, it seems, very few people, has worsened in the Indian Ocean. Cyclone Sidr is heading straight north, expected to strike land east of Calcutta, on the coast of Bangledesh, in several hours from now. This is a low-lying area that will undoubtedly be flooded very…
November 15, 2007
This is the first in a series of reposts from gregladen.com on global warming.
The IPCC report is out, "An Inconvenient Truth" has been honored by the academy, a sea change is happening in the way that climate change news is being reported, and you can bet the Right Wing and the Ree-pubs are as…
November 14, 2007
I know you know this, but does everybody? It is a new approach to getting your banking details. Please pass it around.
Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid weekly?We are glad to offer you for a job position at our company. We need someone to work for the company as a…
November 14, 2007
Hopefully not, but the prospects of a major disaster in the Indian Ocean Basin are looming, and it is strangely underreported. Not a mention on CNN, for instance.
Chris Mooney is telling us that it is Time to Panic. He and I may not entirely agree on every detail of framing, but there is no way…
November 14, 2007
Environmental scientist David Keith talks about a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere, to deflect sunlight and heat? As an emergency measure to slow a melting ice cap, it could work. Keith discusses why it's a good idea…
November 14, 2007
Nineteen former pilots and government officials ... told reporters their questions can no longer be dismissed ..."We want the US government to stop perpetuating the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms," said Fife Symington, former governor of Arizona... "…
November 13, 2007
Judgment Day, the PBS special on the Dover Trial, just finished airing. I have a few somewhat coherent (compared to my live blogging, see upstream) comments.
[see also LiveBlogging on Pharyngula. PZ's excellent insider remarks and lots of great comments]
Mostly, I think it was great, I'm glad…
