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Monthly Archives: July 2010
BP Oil Leak: Good News, Bad News
First the good news, then the bad news. Well, first the bad news that precedes the good news.
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Hans Rosling on global population growth
The world’s population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years — and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you’ll see).
The oil spill’s unseen culprits, victims
The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it’s bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf — and many so-called solutions are making the situation worse.
Long-term environmental implications of the gulf oil spill
Jonathan Foley, Director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment. Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and Head of the Global Landscapes Initiative speaks about what is happening with the latest ecological disaster and what lessons can be learned from it.
Hat Tip: Emily
Darwin’s Other voyage and Bony Knobs on Birds
You know Darwin sailed, famously, on The Beagle. But did you know he also sailed on another boat? Check it out.
More Bird Body Part Blogging: Spurs and blades on the wings of jacanas, lapwings, sheathbills and archaeotrogonids (clubs, spurs, spikes and claws part II)
Did a 15-year old Nazi cause himself to be raped in Minnesota?
This could be one of the strangest stories out … well, this week. Prominent Twin Cities lawyer, Aaron Biber, has been charged with getting a 15-year old boy drunk and sexually assaulting him. I don’t know a lot more about the case than that.
In his defense, Biber claims that the 15 year old was in charge of the relationship, and as evidence of this, he has one or more photographs of the youth wearing an Adolph Hitler costume. A judge is current considering whether or not to allow the photographic evidence to be used in court.
One of those dumb British Travel Shows explores South African Racism
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Oliver – World Cup 2010: Into Africa – The Amazing Racists | ||||
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And, let’s make some fun of Dan Roodt, who should be flogged. And, then, let us contemplate the importance of primarily American based racist IQ research.
Improv Everywhere does Star Wars
The New Yorkers … they laugh now.
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Strange Creatures For Real! No, Really, for Real! (Including GoatSucker Footage)
First, strange creature passes in front of BP Oil Spill Cam. Click here to help identify it. Hat TIp Mad Lolscientist.
Second, “Chupacabras in Texas?”
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Do you support Big Space Science?
If you do, now is when you should do something about it. The Planetary Society is asking for Americans to contact their Senators, RIGHT NOW.
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Minnesota Citizens for Science Education has a New Home!!!
And we need your help to move it. Please click here so the global network of DNS servers knows that you want to visit the MnCSE. You should really visit the site anyway, it’s very cool, even if you are not a Minnesota. I love the graphic thingie on the top of the right sidebar …. click the picture to learn an interesting thing about evolution or related topics.
So? What are you waiting for? Click here!
And, if yo are a parent, teacher, student, or academic interested in excellent science education in Minnesota, bookmark the site and come back often.
Thank you very much, that is all.
How much research has been done on chimps?
Well, at Gombe, the longest running chimp project, fifty years today!
Blog Rolling UDPATED
Here (below the fold) is my new blog roll. If you were expecting to be there and don’t see yourself, let me know. I’m trying to keep my blog roll blog roll-like in that it includes mainly people with whom I exchange linking now and then, and especially whose who’s blog roll I’m on. I’ve deleted seemingly defunct blog as well. It is quite possible that I accidentally deleted a blog that I shouldn’t have.
Poll: Texans Fed Up with Education Wars
Today the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund released results from a statewide survey of what Texans think about the intersection of politics and religion with public schools. We released results from two questions back in May. One showed overwhelming support for putting teachers and scholars, instead of politicians on the State Board of Education, in charge of writing curriculum and textbook requirements. Another revealed that nearly 7 in 10 Texans agree that separation of church and state is a key principle of the Constitution.
Source: TFN