The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago revoked a speaking invitation to Sunsara Taylor, which led to much drama. I've already posted Taylor's version of events; now the society has sent me theirs,...
Shulinab Nursery School is located in a small village of 500 people. The school can't get enough water from rainwater, so they need to set up a system that will let them get water pumped from a nea...
Zombies are attacking Detroit! This is why all of the brains are disappearing out of the city! Check out the picture here's the undeniable evidence:Not only are the Zombies eating Detroit's brain...
tags: birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz[Mystery bird] photographed at Bob Road, Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]Image: Joseph Kennedy, 4 August 2009 [larger...
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If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are certainly aware that PLoS has started making article-level metrics available for all articles.Today, we added one of the most important sets of suc...
The Guardian has a really appalling article about a group of Islamist hardliners in Iraq targeting and killing gays in that country.Sitting on the floor, wearing traditional Islamic clothes and hol...
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement and we will make the goal. - Jerome P. Fleishman Read the comm...
Pity poor Peter Duesberg.Back in the 1980s, he was on the top of the world, scientifically speaking. A brilliant virologist with an impressive record of accomplishment, publication, and funding, he...
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. - Anthony Trollope Read the comments on this post...
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In the current debate over health care, the Right is pissing me off. They are whining about a "government takeover" that will lead to rationing and death panels, but also about runaway costs. Gue...
Influenza kills somewhere around 36,000 Americans every year (and perhaps twice that number, depending on the estimate). The novel A H1N1 ("swine") flu circulating this year has found a world pop...
This is a very fun video to watch for so many reasons ... Read the comments on this post...
Judging by the comments, it would appear that I wasn't as clear in my last post as I should have been. I apologize. Let me try again. Here's what PZ wrote: I think I'd have a few questions for ...
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