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December 31, 2007
Bill O'Reilly has
href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200712050006">declared
victory in the secular humanist's War on Christmas.
"If I had not done the campaign, then the
forces of darkness would have won"
But O'Reilly did not do his homework. He did not know about
the secret weapon...…
December 30, 2007
This cartoon was written before intranasal orexin was
developed, but
the same idea applies:
href="http://www.researchblogging.org/">
alt="Blogging on Peer-Reviewed Research"
src="http://www.researchblogging.org/public/citation_icons/rb2_large_gray.png"
height="50" width="80" class="inset"…
December 29, 2007
This came in an email from a neighbor. It's from
href="http://www.freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Main_Page">FreeThoughtPedia.com
While not as sophisticated as
href="http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/2007/02/scientific_and_unscientific_co.php">Janet's
treatment, I think it is amusing…
December 29, 2007
Mike Huckabee is on the warpath again.
In Washington state, there has been
href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/92789.php">an
outbreak of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psittacosis" rel="tag">psittacosis,
a pulmonary infection caused by contact with imported birds that…
December 29, 2007
What would you do if a series of archaeological expeditions
uncovered ancient texts that indisputably showed that Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John each independently quoted Jesus as having said that
waterboarding is immoral?
December 26, 2007
I know people are complaining that I go too easy on
political candidates. It is true. But with
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_romney" rel="tag">Mitt
Romney, I will make an exception.
I wanted to like Romney. George Wilcken Romney, Mitt Romney's
father, had a truly inspirational…
December 25, 2007
I feel bad: I am infringing on Karmen's territory. She
put up a
delightful
href="http://scienceblogs.com/chaoticutopia/2007/12/heres_wishing_you_the_very.php">fractal
Christmas tree for everyone. And she opened the
title="Chaotic Utopia Curio Shop"
href="http://www.cafepress.com/…
December 23, 2007
Roche
Molecular Diagnostics offers a test that can determine which
type of genes a person has for enzymes that metabolize antidepressant
medication. The test costs $ 300 to $400, and can be ordered
by healthcare professionals, or by consumers.
The idea is that it might be possible to predict which…
December 22, 2007
Someone, with a lot more patience that I, has compiled a
href="http://www.netrootsmass.net/Hugh/Bush_list.html?">list
of Bush administration scandals. The truly amazing
thing? Some people voted for this crook twice.
December 22, 2007
The term evolution, presented without
any
modifiers, generally is held to refer to genetic change within a
population. Of course, behaviors can change over time, too.
This includes behaviors that are quite specific and complex.
Ungulates
are mammals with hooves. The classification comprises…
December 21, 2007
The
href="http://anerroroccurredwhileprocessingthisdirective.com/moviegen/">Movie
Generator just takes a database of various actors and ideas,
and combines them at random:
Hollywood's out of ideas. I'm
just here to help out.Vin Diesel stars in the heart-warming role of President,
Abraham…
December 21, 2007
If you have cats, and you put laundry on the bed, and leave the room
for 15 seconds, this is what happens. They own
the place.
December 21, 2007
My colleagues, et alia, have been
writing (
href="http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2007/12/steroids-for-academics.html">1
href="http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/2007/12/the_ethics_of_performance_enha.php">2
href="http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/12/…
December 20, 2007
This is a brain MRI animation, showing sequential slices of
the brain,
from top to bottom. It was a featured image
at
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:User-FastFission-brain.gif">Wikipedia.
This was created by a Wikipedia user,
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fastfission…
December 20, 2007
The University of Manitoba finally decomissioned its mainframe,
Betelgeuse, after 47 years of faithful service.
The IT folks were so
touched, they held a New Orleans-style jazz funeral for the thing.
Here's the eulogy:
For forty-seven years you've
served us well, you cast us in your green…
December 19, 2007
Now, if only they would offer these online for free...
10. Collegiate Sexualities at
Occidental College.
9. Body Politics: Power, Pain, and Pleasure at
Williams College.
8. Issues Dividing America at Columbia University.
7. Whiteness and Multiculturalism at Ithaca College.
6. Truth, Lies, Politics…
December 19, 2007
Amuse yourself for a few minutes: The Neural Correlate
Society has compiled its list of ten finalists for the
href="http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=109&MMN_position=45:45">year's
best optical illusions.
My…
December 19, 2007
There is a movement afoot to develop a framework for a
href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/12/lets_get_the_presidential_cand.php">Presidential
candidate debate on science. Bora has been
proposing
href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/12/science_debate_2008_my_questio.php">…
December 18, 2007
In February 2005, a bunch of smart people met to eat Chinese
food and talk about a new way to make money. This included
Greg Lippman, a trader at Deutsche Bank; Rajiv Kamilla, a trader at
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. with a background in nuclear physics;
and Todd Kushman, who led a contingent from…
December 17, 2007
This is another irresistable panda video; I got this from
href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/17/baby-pandas-wrestling/">Neatorama,
who got it from
href="http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2007/12/video-baby-pand.html">A
Welsh View.
December 14, 2007
This is an albino squirrel, as
featured in the
href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=452760&in_page_id=1770">Daily
Mail. They have a gallery of such photos
href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/galleries/index.html?in_gallery_id=10440&…
December 14, 2007
Christians have a solemn duty. The reason will become clear.
Recently, there was a strong reaction in the Blogosphere about GovernorMitt
Romney's "
href="http://www.mittromney.com/News/Speeches/Faith_In_America"
rel="tag">Faith In America" Address.
I noticed in particular the posts on
href…
December 13, 2007
Yale
University is following the trend, putting entire college
courses on the Internet.
As a member of the vast left-wing conspiracy, I object.
I object, because now, conservatives will be able to see what methods
we use to brainwash college kids. They will see how we get
them to vote for Ralph…
December 12, 2007
I haven't gotten
back to
the "selection of antidepressants" series. Mostly that is
because, alphabetically, the next one is supposed to be citalopram.
While
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citalopram">citalopram
(Celexa™)
is a perfectly fine antidepressant, it is kind of boring.
So to…
December 10, 2007
There is an artisan at
href="http://www.pitbullarmory.com/" rel="tag">Pitbull
Armory who makes armor for
people,
primarily for Society
for Creative Anachronism events. But he also makes
armor for dogs. And horses. And he's "made history"
by making armor for a squirrel.
Here's the dog armor…
December 9, 2007
Last year, on the occasion of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_AIDS_Day">World
AIDS Day, President Bush promised to reform a discriminatory
policy that blocks most persons with HIV from entering the USA.
The current rule does allow for waivers, but the process is cumbersome
and…
December 8, 2007
This case was
href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/23/2411">written
up in the NEJM,
and made freely accessible. The image on the top left shows a
brain scan taken three years earlier than the one on the top right.
The other images show the cells in the tumor.
It is a…
December 5, 2007
From an
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/20/AR2007112001777.html">article
in the Washington Post:
Afterward, she stayed strong. She wasn't
going to make the classic victim's mistake of blaming herself for
provoking the attack.
Mo, writing at
href="http://…
December 3, 2007
The Washington Post has an interesting article,
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/01/AR2007120101782.html">'A
Soldier's Officer', about an officer in Iraq who attempted
suicide and endangered other personnel. The military is
considering putting her on trial…