As expected, the home schoolers are by and large doing it wrong. No wonder they are always trying to hide the statistics behind manufactured libertarian values.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Happy Anniversary Quiche Moraine
Quiche Moraine, The Blog, started up in mid Janurary, but it was around this time last year that we announced its existence and had our first party in its honor. We have produced 264 posts and had almost 2,000 comments.
Sex, Genes and Evolution
on Skeptically Speaking RIGHT NOW (almost). Click here.
Plant Web Carnival
Gamma Ray Mystery Remains Mysterious
The ever-present fog of energetic gamma rays permeating the universe isn’t created by what astronomers expected, new observations from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveal, leaving scientists with a new cosmic mystery to solve.
The sky glows in gamma rays even far away from well-known bright sources, such as pulsars and gas clouds within our own Milky Way galaxy or the most luminous active galaxies. Conventionally, astronomers thought that the accumulated glow of active galactic nuclei — black hole-powered jets emanating from active galaxies — accounted for most of this gamma-ray background.
“Thanks to Fermi, we now know for certain that this is not the case,
Windows Users: Do Not Press Just Any Key!
Apparently, there is a strange security bug in Windows XP whereby some web sites will ask you to press the F1 Key, and if you do, you are screwed.
Continue reading Windows Users: Do Not Press Just Any Key!
A special I and the Bird
I and the Bird #120: March is up at Sand Creek Almanac, which is Deb’s blog, and it’s from Minnesota! So, this edition is special because it is from my neighborhood, and because it is the Dozenteenth Edition!
Click here to visit I and the Bird Web Carnival.
‘Ana’s Playground,’ filmed in Minneapolis, will screen Saturday
Details on the film and the screening here.
Hat tip: Ana.
First Annual Upchucky Awards Announced!!!
Which creationist was the most nauseating?
From the NCSE:
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Must reads
Diversity in Science Carnival #7: Black History Month – Broadening STEM Participation at every level at Urban Science Adventures.
Question of the day: What’s more important to you: Getting the best personal healthcare coverage, or adequate universal coverage for everyone? (go comment and possibly win a USB drive thingie!)
More Moon Water
scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon’s north pole. NASA’s Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter. Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it’s estimated there could be at least 1.3 trillion pounds (600 million metric tons) of water ice.
The Mini-SAR has imaged many of the permanently shadowed regions that exist at both poles of the Moons. These dark areas are extremely cold and it has been hypothesized that volatile material, including water ice, could be present in quantity here. The main science object of the Mini-SAR experiment is to map and characterize any deposits that exist.
YOU LIE!!!!
To your doctor. I know you do.
And even if you don’t, you won’t want to miss the very interesting thread developing on this topic at Collective Imagination.
My new knee brace
People have been asking. This is approximately what it looks like:
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Carnival of Evolution #21: The Superstar Edition
The Wikio Science Blog Rankings for March
… are out. And here they are:
Continue reading The Wikio Science Blog Rankings for March