But wait, there’s more…. Continue reading YouTube Addresses Expelled
Daily Archives: April 15, 2008
New Science Carnival
Molecular and Cell Biology Carnival #1 is up at The Skeptical Alchemist.
Expelled in Texas
The following video is on the NCSE Expelled Exposed web site, but that site is getting so much use it is broken! So enjoy the video while we wait for ExpelledExposed to come back up…Expelled exposed is here.
Enough with the evolution and politics
Let’s have some LOL cats…
see more crazy cat picsBut wait, there’s more… Continue reading Enough with the evolution and politics
Carnivals
The April 15, 2008 edition of Books Carnival is at The Book’s Den.The “To Hell With Expelled Blog Carnival!” will be held at Dinosaurs and The Bible: A Creationist’s Fairy Tale. Please send your entries by April 17th.
Australia sings for Lebanon
Super Laser
QUEST visits the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, where scientists will soon aim the world’s largest laser at a target the size of a pencil eraser. The goal? Nuclear fusion — and, they say, the answer to the world’s clean energy needs.
Expelled Exposed: But Wait, There’s More!
I’ve already announced to you, twice, the emergence of a new web site called “Expelled Exposed” developed by the National Center for Science Education. Chances are you already went and looked at the site.But, as of a few minutes ago, the site has been totally refined and updated. The site that is now up at www.expelledexposed.com is presumably the intended product, and it is quite different from, more extensive, more informative, fancier, than the earlier site. So if you looked at the one-page site I had sent you to before, please go back and have a second look. There is much more to be seen.
John Wheeler is Dead
John Wheeler may have been one of the few living individuals who actually worked with Einstein, until his death at the age of 96 two days ago. He is famous for his work on the Unified Field Theory (which did not come to fruition), the Harrison-Wheeler equation which has to do with high-density nuclear matter inside of very dense (neutron) stars, and for coining the term “black hole.”Well, he did not really coin the term. It is said that he was giving a talk on the phenomenon, and during the talk a student called out “black hole” as a suggested name for the phenomenon, and it stuck. Continue reading John Wheeler is Dead
Elephants Were Aquatic
That elephants have an aquatic ancestry has been suspected for some time now. Moreover, the idea of elephant aquatic origins and elephant origins in general is part of a growing realization that many of the world’s aquatic mammals originated in a couple of regions of Africa that were for a very long time enormous inland seas (but that is another story I won’t cover here).
The earlier evidence came from observation of the ontogeny of the kidneys in elephants, during which the kidneys take on the characteristics that are found in aquatic mammals generally. That research was published in 1999, and is summarized here: Continue reading Elephants Were Aquatic