Archive for October 5th, 2008

Obama's New Ad [Greg Laden's Blog]

Read the comments on this post…

More: continued here

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Four-way stops must be outlawed in Minnesota

They just don’t work. Maybe you’ve heard of “Minnesota nice”, this strange passive-aggressive attitude around here that compels everyone to compete at being the most polite and deferential…and it completely defeats the function of the

More: continued here

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

WHO behaving badly (again) [Effect Measure]

An article in The Straits Times from newswire Associated Press (AP) drew my attention to a festering disagreement between proponents of an innovative global sharing initiative for influenza information and the World Health Organization,

More: continued here

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

The best illustrations of… [A Blog Around The Clock]

…current politicians and events can be found here. Unfortunately, I cannot whet your appetite by posting one of the pictures here as:. All images copyright Zina Saunders - do not use without permission. Read the comments on this post.

More: continued here

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Longitude by Dava Sobel [Uncertain Principles]

Jennifer Ouellette’s pop-science book project post and the discussionaround it reminded me that I’m really shockingly ill-read in this area. If I’m going to be writing pop-science books, I ought to have read more of them,

More: continued here

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Don't forget to vote. Oh, and wear a wool sweater!!!

In a recent election in the District of Columbia, an extra 1500 votes were added to the vote count that were never cast. Apparently, these votes were caused by static electricity. Or something. Read the rest of this post.

More: continued here

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Navigate By The Stars [Greg Laden's Blog]

Via lifehacker:. Don’t believe that part about where Jupiter is. As far as I know, the planets move …. (which is why they are called planets, yes?) Read the comments on this post…

More: continued here

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Origins [Pharyngula]

If you’ve been curious about what’s been going on at Michael Shermer’s Origins conference, here’s someone who has been live-blogging it. It sounds like most of the morning talks were somewhat interesting, but the afternoon panel session

More: continued here

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

A few political tidbits [Greg Laden's Blog]

Is Palin a Young Earth Creationist? Bachmann on Health Care. Palin’s Greatest Hits. Palin Gaffe on Vietnam Are the elites more polarized? Yes! The candidates on banking regulation and race. Read the comments on this post…

More: continued here

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Children aware of white male monopoly on White House

Challenging the idea that children live in a color or gender blind world, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin reveals most elementary-school-age children are aware there has been no female, African-American, or Hispanic President of the United States. And, many of the children attribute the lack of representation to discrimination.

More: continued here

Sunday, October 5th, 2008