Daily Archives: December 1, 2007
Anyone Misplace a Bag? A Green Bag?
This is interesting:
30.11.2007 / 16:23 WWII army bag is found in desertLONDON. 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 personal letters and photos, while serving with the 8th Army.Egyptian tour guide Kahled Makram found the bag in the Sahara desert and traced Mr Ross’s family through a BBC website on World War II.The bag is being sent to Burnley to Mrs Ross’s sister, Irene Porter.source
This happened to me, too. Continue reading Anyone Misplace a Bag? A Green Bag?
Anthony Flew, Intelligent Design Supporter, Soft on Eugenics
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 Antony Flew!” But at the risk of raining on the parade, there’s something that Bill needs to realize – the fearless Flew seems to have a very ambivalent attitude (to put it mildly) to eugenics.Prometheus Books recently published its New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, a work to which I provided an entry on Haeckel and co-wrote (with Matt Young) the entry on unbelief among scientists. While browsing my copy, I stumbled across the entry on eugenics (pp. 294 – 296, pdf), written by none other that Antony Flew….
Indeed, this gets very interesting. Go to Flew’s Eugenic Leanings
You Could Poke Your Eye Out With That Thing
Never, Ever run with a Deer Antler unless you KNOW HOW TO HOLD IT PROPERLY.
From Shelley Batts Blog.
Rosa: Thanks for not moving to the back of the bus
Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), this day in history, 1953
An Interesting Day in History
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 celebrates their anniversary, I suppose).Here is the full output from my Linux Calendar: Continue reading An Interesting Day in History
Happy Birthday Allen Stuart Konigsberg
Pope Attacks Atheism
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.
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Sidr Damage
A quick update on the effects of Sidr on the world’s largest Mangrove Swamp. Continue reading Sidr Damage
Extended Male Growth in Robust Australopithecus
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 published in Science, examines this. Continue reading Extended Male Growth in Robust Australopithecus
Good Stuff from Bill O’Reilly
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. Continue reading Good Stuff from Bill O’Reilly
Fossilized Food Chain
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:
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