The story of Bora and Sci, two bloggers you may have heard of.
OMG, bugs AND cool graphs in the same post.
And, for something quit serious: Exercise and Peripheral Artery Disease
Daily Archives: July 22, 2010
Scienceblogs.com still has some good blogging
“Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity…And I’m not afraid to say it. ” … so THAT’s why they hate Mel Gibson? Follow the bouncing logic here.
When I was a kid, I collected stamp. I loved it. Then, one day, my uncle sent me a box of ash from a volcano that had destroyed his village in Costa Rica. That was cool. Now, these two cool things are combined into one: Iceland issues stamps made with Eyjafjallajökull ash
A report from the field: Out in the Oil with Captain Dave
Did you ever want a purely skeptical version of Google Search?
Where all the crap on the Internet is excluded, so your results are from the kind of sites you actually want to use as sources of information?
CLICK HERE and bookmark that page!
An American Funeral
Recently I witnessed something remarkable-yet altogether ordinary.
I had the honor of being invited to a family’s memorial service a while ago. While not a member of this family, I am very close to one member and through him knew the deceased. To the others, Sylvia was sister, sister-in-law, aunt, great-aunt, and relationships extending outward from there. Her own family had scattered after her divorce, and she moved up to Minnesota to be close to her brother’s family.
GIVE BORA MONEY
Just do it.
You were planning to give your favorite candidate 50 bucks, and 10 bucks to the Girl Scouts or whatever, and maybe a few bucks to some other cause over the next six months. Well, divert five, ten bucks (or if you’re loaded, make it large) as an expression of appreciation to Bora.
Why? How? Who? Huh?
Thank you very much.
Chicago Area Denizens: Get your fortune told!
… by people who really know how to tell a fortune…
Ask us any question you want! And we’ll answer it for you! We’ll have tarot cards! Palm readings! A crystal* ball! And dowsing pendulums (courtesy of SurlyRamics)!
You can even attend out pseudoworkshop “5 minute Google: How to impress your drunk ass friends with psychic readings”. Then you can hold your own psychic fair!
We’ll even have raffles (we already know that you’re a winner!) And a silent auction. And chairs! And an open bar! And a skeptical psychic face off!
You can even compete to prove your own psychic powers are the best in Chicago!
Be there!
Friday, July 23
8:00pm
Galway Arms
2442 N Clark
Chicago, Il
Mothers and Others by Hrdy: A Review
Remember Evolutionary Psychology? The theory?
It’s over.
Continue reading Mothers and Others by Hrdy: A Review
The Scienceblogs Strike is Over
Or at least, Greg Laden’s Blog is no longer on strike. There is a scheduled phone conversation today between an elite subset of bloggers and the management. I have no idea how the phone call will go (or went), but I’ve been promised a summary eventually.
Continue reading The Scienceblogs Strike is Over
HuffPo blogger claims skin cancer is conspiracy
There is a small but vocal movement of people who refuse to believe that skin cancer caused by sunlight is a significant health risk. These people tend to also believe that the risk is being purposely hyped by others, and that our current approach to skin cancer prevention is causing an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency….
The Cancer Letter reveals Rhodes Scholar falsification by Duke cancer researcher
On Friday, Paul Goldberg of The Cancer Letter reported on an investigation into Duke cancer researcher, Anil Potti, MD, and claims made that he was a Rhodes Scholar – in Australia. The misrepresentation was made on grant applications to NIH and the American Cancer Society.
This is important. Read it on Terra Sigillata.
Hospitals want patients to eat antibiotic-free meat
Huge news, and hat tip to excellent food-policy writer Monica Eng at the Chicago Tribune: In a piece published Tuesday, she details that 300 hospitals in the Chicago area and nationwide have begun preferentially buying and serving meat that is raised without the use of antibiotics….
Huh. This is interesting. Read the rest here.
Interview with Stephanie Willen Brown
Bora continues his interview tradition on his new site.
Aliens Land on Ant Blog
You won’t believe this photograph, as usual.
No Metazoan is an Island
I’m one of those dreadful animal-centric zoologically inclined biologists. Plants? What are those? Fungi? They’re related to metazoans somehow. Lichens? Not even on the radar. The first step in fixing a problem, though, is recognizing that you have one. So I confess to you, O Readers, that my name is PZ, and I am a metazoaphile. But I can get better. …
Sex, Stress, and Neurogenesis
…Let’s talk about sex. And let’s talk about stress. And then let’s talk about how increases in glucocorticoids are not the be all end all of psychiatric pathology….