Evolution

The Real Hacker Test

You’ve seen the various tests to see how much of a geek or hacker you are. They are mainly, ultimately, ads for dating services or some other such scam. The real hacker test exists as an OpenSource text file and is best read in EMACS.

Here’s Version 1.0 of the test:

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Two new species have been found. First, an insect found in amber sold on eBay reported and discussed at the Other 95%. Second is a new wasp found by a blogger in her own back yard!!!!

While we are on the subject of bugs, have a look at Gossamer Tapestry’s post on The Lichen Grasshopper.

I stole all these great links from Bug Girl, but since Bug Girl is busy and not blogging, I recommend that you look at this week old post on puns. Then send her a nasty note.

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Especially for Teachers

Teachers Under Fire

Is Blood Ever Blue? Science Teachers Want to Know!

Teachers Gone Wild

Resources (documents)

Bill Foster’s Letter

The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools

Education and Public Science: Creationism, Intelligent Design, Home Schooling

The Myers - Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me

The Bible-Thumping Grinch who Pissed on Christmas

Creationist who Killed Evolutionist with Knife Gets Light Sentence

Likely Voters Prefer Evolution Over Creationism

John West (of the Discovery Institute) can Play the Violin But Not the Fiddle

Proven: Michael Behe is a Moron

Why Should You Home School Your Children?

If you are eating or driking something now, don’t read this.

NAS: Religion and Science are Compatible

The Home Schooling Attitude: Part 1 of 1

Society, Politics, Religion

Roland Martin, sorry to offend, but you are an offensive dit

He feels unnerved. Others feel, well, like their guts were blown out of their bodies all over the lecture hall.

Murdered 15 year old deserved what he got

This is a lot better than being called a dumb-ass

Science, including peer reviewed research

Elephants Are Not Ethnic-Blind

Modern Humans and Neanderthals: Did they “do it?”

Study Suggests Increased Rate of Human Adaptive Evolution

The Bible as Ethnography ~ 05 ~ The Virgin Birth

Tatiana Is Telling us Something

Behavioral Manipulation by a Parasite

The Nematode Vulva and the Nature of Evolution

Origin of Native America

Why the Hobbits of Flores Were Probably Not Broken People

Cooking and Human Evolution

How to Avoid Inbreeding

Giardia: Protozoan of never ending wonders

Global Warming, the Blog Epic ~ 01 ~ Introduction

Proof that Noah’s Ark was Real

The Yellowstone Problem

The Origin of Syphilis

Evidence for an ancient lineage of modern humans

Lemur Family Tree Mapped

Mammals and the KT Event

The Great Potato Origins Debate May be Settled

Technology and Other

How To Buy a Computer

Learning the Bash Shell

When the Robots take over, people may still have one use…

Gloves, Mittens, Socks, Quarks and Alternative Universes. It all makes so much sense…

A good way to cook a turkey

The Ultimate Male Fantasy

How to get a date

You’ll notice that Ben Stein and his movie Expelled have taken up permanent residence in the ads on this page. To complement this intrusion, I’ve assembled links to a number of insightful blog posts on this movie.

Let the Flamewar Begin, Ben Stein
It’s a propaganda film!
Ben Stein can’t get anything right
I’m gonna be a ☆ MOVIE STAR ☆
He turns everything he touches to dross
No respect for Ben Stein
Expelled: not even released, and already a flop
From Randy Olson: Why the Ben Stein Movie, “Expelled,” Isn’t Worth Worrying Over

Theres a lot more. Here are some search result listings if you want more:

Everything on Scienceblogs.com

Everything in the world. (using the MnCSE Real Science Search Engine)

Good bye.

This is the last post that I will write for this blog.

OK, quiet down now, the cheering and clapping is not really very nice.

Oh, if you get a chance, please visit my new blog, here, on Scienceblogs.com. I hope to see you there in a few milliseconds!

Send me your critter posts for the next I and the Bird Carnival (15 November). The current I and the Bird is here at the Drinking Bird.

When you come to read the Carnival, you may be very surprised.

While we are on the subject of Carnivals, the current Friday Ark is Here.

… to go here and follow instructions.

Don’t forget to set your clock back tonight by one hour if you live in the U.S.

Me, I’m waiting until Monday Morning. That’s when I’ll really need the hour. In the Spring, I like to do the clock thing during boring meetings.