I’ll just show you some of the reviews of this product, and then give you the link, and I’m sure you will purchase one instantly!!!! Continue reading Holiday Shopping Tip #4
Daily Archives: December 21, 2007
My Linux Calendar
- Dec 21
- Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
- Dec 21
- Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days
- Dec 21
- Women gain the right to vote in South Australia, 1894
- Dec 21
- Women gain the right to hold political office in South Australia, 1894
- Dec 21
- Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940
- Dec 21
- Yule (Norse for “wheel”) – Germanic 12-day feast
- Dec 21*
- Winteranfang
- Dec 21*
- Winter Solstice
- Dec 22
- Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
Is it a good thing or is it something more equine in nature?
Please go check this out and come back and tell me what you think…..Top Evangelical Scientist Joins Science Debate 2008 PushI honestly hope it is a good thing…
Candidates on SNL
One of these pols is not like the other. One of these pols is not the same.
Another Public School Teacher Goes Over the Line
I have great respect for public school teachers. Hey, I married one! Mainly, of course, because I respect her. But they are not all good. Some of them are bad… Continue reading Another Public School Teacher Goes Over the Line
Coulter on Huckabee on Darwin
… and some other stuff. Like sodomy.
Roland Martin, sorry to offend, but you are an offensive dit
Roland S. Martin is a CNN commentator who is coming late to the War on Christmas.
The name Roland Martin reminds me of Rowan and Martin. I’m pretty sure that is why Rowan S. Martin uses the “S.” .. so people don’t think of Rowan and Martin when they hear his name.
Rowan and Martin were funny in their day. Roland S. Martin is not funny. Yet it is hard to not laugh at the guy.
Continue reading Roland Martin, sorry to offend, but you are an offensive dit
Heritability of Magical Powers Investigated
A multilocus model with a dominant gene for magic might exist, controlled epistatically by one or more loci, possibly recessive in nature. Magical enhancers regulating gene expressionmay be involved, combined with mutations at specific genes implicated in speech and hair colour such as FOXP2 and MCR1.
The most important thing about this study is not its conclusion, but what we will do with it. Continue reading Heritability of Magical Powers Investigated
Humor and Hormones
Humour appears to develop from aggression caused by male hormones, according to a study published in this week’s Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal…. Makes total sense to me. And if you think I’m kidding, you can stuff it. Continue reading Humor and Hormones
The Bahamas Yield Amazing Fossil Finds
Plant and animal fossils recently discovered from an island in the Bahamas tell a story of habitat change and human involvement in local extinction. Continue reading The Bahamas Yield Amazing Fossil Finds
Firefox 3 Beta
Firefox 3 Beta is released… Continue reading Firefox 3 Beta
Long Lived the Queen
No, no, she didn’t die. My past-tensing of the verb “to live” (sorry about the verbing of the noun “tense”) is a clever trick. But today is a big day in British History. Continue reading Long Lived the Queen
Now they’re banning the books
The Catholic Church has repressed positive reviews of the movie The Golden Compass, and has encouraged people to not see the movie. Representatives of Catholic groups have spoken out forcefully, on the verge of Holy War Level Talk, against the movie and the book. Now we year news of an event that started to play out a few weeks ago and that is now coming to a head: One school district has banned the book. The Halton Catholic District board has removed the His Dark Materials trilogy from the library shelves in that district.
Friday Ark #170
is Here
A Step Towards Defeating Malaria
A lectin is a funny little protein that seems to be used in a lot of biological systems. They bind to sugars, and one of the roles they play is inhibition of “agglutination” … clumping, or gluing together … of other molecules.A sea cucumber is an echinoderm that lives in the ocean. It looks kind of like a cucumber, but if you saw a cucumber that looked and acted like an echinoderm you would probably not put it in your salad.Malaria is a type of protozoan, a single celled organism that is not a bacteria. There are many kinds, and they complex life cycle with many different stages, including one stage that lives in the gut of a mosquito, and another stage that lives in the blood cells of a vertebrate host. One of the nasty forms of malaria that affects humans is Plasmodium falciparum.An ookinete is the general name for a protozoan zygote. It is an egg that moves, as you can guess from its name. The malaria parasite is an ookinete when it enters the gut of a mosquito.A sporozoite is the life stage of malaria when it has moved from the gut to the salivary glands, from where it is potentially passed to the vertebrate host when the mosquito is busy sucking blood. Continue reading A Step Towards Defeating Malaria