There’s some stuff I don’t want you to miss.

Related to the Komen Maneno:

• Stop Giving Money to Susah G. Komen for the Cure, and tell everyone else you know to do the same.
• We Stand with Planned Parenthood
• Poor Women Have Breasts Too, You Know!

Another fight about gun control:

• Seven Year Old Jaymee Stewart Has Died…

Political Update:

• Florida Primary Results: A Pattern Emerges

I’m guest blogging at Scientific American:

• How Animals Prepare for an Alien Invasion
• What Robot Fish Can Tell Us About Parallel Evolution
• Boa Constrictors Get a Feel for Their Prey

Within this generation, an extra 30 years have been added to our life expectancy — and these years aren’t just a footnote or a pathology. At TEDxWomen, Jane Fonda asks how we can think about this new phase of our lives.

Continue reading Jane Fonda: Life's third act →

One of the most read posts of the month was titled Justin Bieber’s New Haircut but it was actually about something else. It was about a bunch of things, including #Occupy (even though #Occupy had not happened yet) and the end of civilization as we know it.

In February, we also explored the question “Why is my poop green?” or, more exactly, why is YOUR poop green. The answer may surprise you, and likely, you are not gonna die.

Also this month, Desiree Schell, of Skeptically Speaking interviewed Sheril Kirshenbaum about her new book, and on a related topic, I did one of my “Everything You Know is Wrong segments on Human Universals. Here is the link to that podcast.

We did a fair amount of geology in February. For example, we discussed How old is the earth, and how do we know?. We asked the question, Is the yellowstone caldera safe? And you will remember that one of the big news stories of February was about an earthquake in Christchurch. So, we explored the question Why does New Zealand have so many earthquakes and volcanoes?

The Nation’s (US) “Science Report Card” came out and we talked about that.

Every now and then I write a post that addresses a fundamental question about how people think (or fail to do so) which is not exactly a falsehood, but rather, a cultural phenomenon or a mode of conversation or something else that may be a bit subtle. In February, I explored the phenomenon of people judging others and, at least verbally, sentencing everybody to the same ugly fate regardless of what they actually did or did not do: If you do something wrong, you should be fired or killed. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you should be killed. Or, just go read the post.

And none of this will matter unless you are well organized. So, here is How to organize your stuff.

In January I noticed, and blogged, that Michele Bachmann is an Unmitigated Idiot and Racist. And I proved it. Also, during the winter of 2010-2011 there were a handful of die-offs of birds and some other critters that happened to get into the news, and for some, caused great anxiety. We explored the question of Why are all the birds dying? and considered Dead Birds in other ways as well.

We also explored the universal question of “Human Universals.” Are they real or are they some kind of falsehood? I said that there are Human Universals but that it is complicated, and noted that people may have different ideas of what a “Human Universal” looks like (or is made out of). (See February’s retrospective for more on this.)

This was the month that Rickey Gervais got in trouble for hosting the Golden Globes. Lots of people got snooty about his snark. Was that because his snark was so sharp, or because he is an overt in your face Atheist? We argued a bit about that one.

The Julian Assange rape allegations were also a matter of discussion that month.

For the next several weeks, I’ll be contributing a weekly post at Birdingblogs.com. The informal title of this series of posts is Darwin’s Other Birds. The idea is to identify particularly interesting passages from Darwin’s writings and put them in an appropriate context. This week’s post is an introduction to the series. Thanks to Gunnar for the interesting introduction to the Birdingblgos community!

I hope you enjoy the series, which will run every Friday. Next Friday, Darwin and the Andean Condor.

Aardvarchaeology blogger and renowned skeptic Martin Rundkvist and Swedish journalist Yusie Chou discuss their impressions of the Twin Cities, Swedish atheism, journalism, Chinese history, culture conflict and change, skepticism, humanism, Politics, archaeology, Vikings, and so on. Here. Enjoy!

Biology is harder to learn than quantum physics. Why? Because most people think they totally get biology, but everyone knows nobody gets quantum physics. Therefore, any effort to explore quantum physics will result in new learning, but people rarely learn new biology. The bottom line is that our brains are full of biology, which would be good if most of it did not consist of …

The Falsehoods and The Falsehoods II

The next installment of my new falsehoods series, on Skeptically Speaking radio with Desiree Schell, is tonight at 6PM Mountain Standard Time. You can listen on line or wait until emacsDay, I mean Sunday, and download it.

The main guests (my bit is a little add in pre-recorded thing) are George Dvorsky and Greg Fish. Details, and a place to leave comments are here.

I will post this installment’s sister blog post some time before the show. The falsehood in question is: “Humans Evolved from Apes” … A statement that is indubitably true yet clearly wrong.