Daily Archives: September 29, 2009
Intelligent Design vs. Evolution: Evolution wins again.
An international team of researchers, including Monash University biochemists, has discovered evidence at the molecular level in support of one of the key tenets of Darwin’s theory of evolution.
… that it happened …
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Mars Climate Change Patterns Seen in Ice Caps
You may know that much of the climate change on earth over the last two million years-the coming and going of ice ages-is caused by the “orbital geometry” of the planet. The amount of planetary tilt and the time of year the tilt occurs change over time. When the Northern Hemisphere is less tilted towards the sun on June 21st, and at the same time the Earth is as far from the sun in its elliptical orbit as it ever gets, ice age conditions prevail. This makes ice ages on Earth pretty regular, cyclic, events….
Maddow on Acorn
The De-Fund Acorn Act of 2009: Shame. Maybe even illegal.
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How to fly using your Wii (but you have to flap fast enough)
Do not watch this if you can’t handle geeks wearing viking hats.
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What makes a perfect day at the lake?
When the wind stiffens it blows the fog off the lake and replaces it with a biting spray. And when the wind slackens the sound of air rushing though the leaves and around the cabins is replaced with the crashing of the white caps that stand off from the more protected bay. Either way it is chilly and inhospitable, with ambient temperatures near 40 and a wind chill that might be close to freezing.
In other words, a perfect day at the lake.
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Sagan and Hawking’s new music video
Here at The Lake I don’t get enough intertubules to watch a video reliably. So I can’t separate the DJ effect from the Slow Connection effect in this video, but it looks good:
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