The Superbowl of Birding is out, and by that I mean I and the Bird Web Carnival number CXLIII. Pronounced like Cthulhu but with an “i” sound at the end. You will find it here at the Slugyard blog.

The next edition of I and the Bird is set for February 17th, and I will be hosting it here, so please send me your bird blogging. It would be helpful if you put IATB in the subject line of your email to me.

The Bobo Carnival of Politics is out as well. Bobo is a clown, so be careful. Click here.

… they weren’t scared, but the guy trying to rob them sure was.

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Wally was sitting at his computer when the man entered his home.

“He just stood there in that doorway, standing there with a shovel,” said Wally. “I thought, ‘what the hell is going on here?’ I thought it was a joke!”

After hearing all the commotion, his wife, Betty, went to the front of the house and found him on the floor. Wally had been punched in the nose and it was bleeding.

“I sat on the edge of the bed. He says, ‘give me your hands! I’m going to tie you up!’ And I said, ‘No, I don’t think so,” Betty said.

What? Who punched whom? Wait, was this guy armed? This is a very poorly written article.

Continue reading Elderly Minnesota Couple Fends Off Home Invader With Gun →

So it is said.

Carnival of Evolution No. 32 is now at Denim and Tweed. Here.

At Ed Brayton’s blog: American Teachers Often Ignore Evolution

I’ll be doing another edition of Everything You Know is Sort Of Wrong on Skeptically Speaking on Friday. Details here.

How Homeopathy Works. And, is pronounced.

Michele Bachmann Hates Our Veterans.

Michele Bachmann has a plan to cut the budget and it starts with freezing funding to the VA for health care for veterans and cutting spending on disability payments to those injured during war.

The Anything Goes Carnival of Politics is HERE. All kinds of great stuff there.

New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products

Do not visit web sites if your computer is running Windows. Recent reports indicate that your computer could be taken over by malicious forces.

Egypt vs. the Netizins.

Model predicts ‘religiosity gene’ will dominate society. OMG. Ooops, did I say that?

And finally, the Antikythera Mechanism was a computer built in Greece at around 100 BCE. It is an astronomical device for ascertaining the positions of celestial bodies and it is quite accurate. Some crazy scientists bult a fully-functional Lego replica of the device:

Continue reading Technobabble →

Climate Science in a Nutshell #9: How Bad Could it Get? from Planet Nutshell on Vimeo.

Hat Tip Class M Planet

Creationism may seem like a joke to most atheists. After all, how could the univerese and everything in it be only 6000 years old, when the light from galaxies 10 billian light years away takes (you guessed it) 10 billion years to get here?That was the question I had initially asked when I heard that there are serious people who insist that the Biblical story of creation should be taken literally in all ways. I was using Man’s Reason on which to base my beliefs that the universe is old. I wasn’t going to the “true source” of all knowledge to get the straight dope on Creation.

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These two things are only indirectly connected:

What this all means:

On Friday the 4th, Skeptically Speaking will have a pre-recorded interview with Sheril. On that same show, I’ll do a pre-recored installment of “Everything…”. You can go to the link and click on “ask a question”, but do it before Noon EST on Tuesday. If there are too many questions, I’ll address some of them in a blog post.

I believe Sheril’s spot has already been recorded. But if you have a question for her just ask me and I’ll answer it in falsetto. No, not really.