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Selected Peer Reviewed Blogging posts of continuing from previous Junes and Julys:

Morning Sickness is not a sickness!

The American South, Urban Areas, People of Color, Native Americans … In short, the poor and disadvantaged … suffer greatly from poverty-caused neglected diseases

The Origins of the Evil Eye and Horticultural Fertility Cults?

The Poison in the Leaf: Macro Evolutionary Patterns in Plant-Herbivore Co-Evolution

The Evolution of Cats: Sabertooth vs. Regular

Paul Ingraham is Vancouver Registered Massage Therapist and science writer who criticizes questionable practices in alternative health care — and his professional regulator calls it offensively unprofessional and wants to censor his website with tens of thousands of dollars in legal defense expenses at stake.

Science-based alternative health? Rebellion within the alt-health ranks? Juicy.

details here

The following video is NOT from a Home Depot. It is, however, from a Vodka warehouse. But this could happen anywhere with fork lifts. Well, OK, more likely when fork lifts and Vodka are mixed. Which just proves ….
Continue reading This is why you should not bring your children or pets to Home Depot →

If you said “cat” you’d be partly right. If you said “naked lady kneeling on floor” you’d be closer.
Continue reading What is this a picture of? →

From a Yale press release:

Yale University researchers have detected the effects of natural selection among two generations of contemporary women and predict their descendents will be slightly shorter and chubbier, have lower cholesterol and blood pressure and have their first children earlier in life.

The predictions, which were made in the Oct. 19 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were based on an analysis of women who have participated in the famous Framingham Heart Study, that began in 1948. The results illustrate the medical value of evolutionary biology principles, 150 years after Darwin published The Origin of the Species, the authors say.

Continue reading Evolution’s Path May Lead To Shorter, Stouter Women Who Give Birth Earlier →

hat tip: DMB

From the BBC:

Councillors in a rural town have staged a mass resignation after becoming tired of criticism from a blogger.

We could just leave it at that and know our power. Or we could look at the details more closely:
Continue reading The political power of bloggers →

This is very funny: