Thoughts on various scientific items stumbled across; a critic’s take on new discoveries; a civilian’s view of what it might mean.
This makes me so happy. Via Wired News: Monsignor Gianfranco Basti, director of … Science, Theology and Ontological Quest, reaffirmed John Paul’s 1996 statement that evolution was “more than just a hypothesis.” “A hypothesis asks whether something is true or false,” he said. “(Evolution) is more than a hypothesis because there is proof.”
3rd annual The Worst Jobs in Science list via Popular Science magazine.
Added…: BrainsMaps.org (via BoingBoing) Seed mag (also via BoingBoing) currently playing: Delerium “Orbit of Me”
My environmental message for the day: Melanie McGrath reports on Madagascar’s threatened lemurs: Madagascar is one of the world’s poorest countries, and is hugely dependent on rice. In the past century, the island has lost 90% of its forest to slash-and-burn agriculture, or tavy. The once thickly covered central highlands are now a wasteland, scarred […]
Via SkepticReport.com: Bob Riggins’ Things Creationists Hate My favorite part (so far): [The Founding Fathers] make creationists appear, shall we say, less than intellectually competent when they toss out a howler like, “George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were creationists!” It makes one want to knock on their heads and call out derisively, “Helllooo! Anybody home […]
From a postcard sent by a friend: It was cloudy for our trip so we couldn’t see these islands. it was so cloudy it looked like we were in our own little world or like there wasn’t enough memory in the Acadia Park system to show anything father than 50 feet. Irony defined: Drive in […]
Via Boing Boing:: human brain continues to evolve – – well, that’s what the evidence suggests. currently playing: Chemlab “Chemical Halo”
F_D converts to Pastafarianism! Hallowed be His Noodly Touch. Give his Noodly Majesty equal time in Kansas!
Via MetaFilter: Bush favors Intelligent Design? No surprises there. Now leverage that in the post-evolution arguments…
Sampo follows up on the Dvorak vs. Creative Commons thing by referencing the Slashdot thread on the subject. One thing that I noticed keeps poking its head in a rather unfortunate way: Creative Commons licenses provide an accessible, relatively easy way for folks to publish content “with strings attached” but without worrying about having their […]