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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Circus of the Spineless Web Carnival
Number 46 is up at Adventures of a Free Range Urban Primate.
Congo Volcano Erupting
Mount Nyamulagira, 25km (16 miles) from the eastern city of Goma, erupted at dawn on Saturday, sending lava into the surrounding Virunga National Park.
About 40 endangered chimpanzees and other animals live in the area.
But the country’s famous critically endangered mountain gorillas are said to be safe as they live further east.
These are very special chimpanzees. I believe I’ve blogged about them elsewhere, but I’ll write new something about them soon.
I’ve driven though this range of volcanoes, and flown over them as well.
Out of place oak is 13 thousand years old
One of the world’s oldest plants turns out to be a 13,000 year-old scrub oak (Quercus palmeri, or Palmer’s Oak) in Southern California. Apparently this tree has survived for so long, despite the fact that it was born in the ice age and there have been numerous climate changes since then, by cloning itself, hiding in a crevice, being small, and growing slowly. Luck was involved as well, almost certainly.
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Who was the most influential female atheist of 2009?
Go Vote for somebody in this poll:
Who was the most influential female atheist of 2009?
…here’s a poll focusing just on the female voices of atheism. Who do you think was the most influential female atheist of 2009? …
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Anthropology Blog Carnival
Four Stone Hearth #83 the totally cool “The Avatar Edition” … is manifest at The Primate Diaries.
Terry Deacon on Evolutionary Play
Do the right thing.
Is “Blacks have excellent rhythm” a racist thing to say?
Well, yes. But the question raises some interesting points.
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Science On Line 2010 is coming up
Not everyone can go to SoTen, but the participants in this upcoming bloggy/onliney conference are tying to keep the discussion broad and involve readers and commenters. The latest effort along these lines is by Ed Young who has posted a post (linking to other posts) pursuant to a panel on science journalism in the age of the web. So you may want to go to his post and poke around.
You may also want to take a look at the whole SoTen program, here. The session I’m involved in, organized by Stephanie Zvan, is to be on trust and critical thinking, and a description of the session and a set of related links is here.
Also, THIS is an important touchstone to some of the topics we’ll be discussing.
Health Care Bill Explained To A Dog
Hat Tip But You Are A Girl
The Foundation Beyond Belief
is a new organization designed to direct charitable contributions towards atheist/humanist projects.
Not everything of interest in science is nine days old or less
Selected Peer Reviewed Blogging posts of continuing from previous Junes and Julys:
Morning Sickness is not a sickness!
The Origins of the Evil Eye and Horticultural Fertility Cults?
The Poison in the Leaf: Macro Evolutionary Patterns in Plant-Herbivore Co-Evolution