Archive for July 11th, 2009
I’ve posted before that I’m a big fan of Garfield Minus Garfield, the alternate reality in which Jon Arbuckle’s barely suppressed mental illness is fully revealed. Now we have Garfield: Lost In Translation, in which the dialogue is …
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Blogging on Peer-Reviewed Research As Eddie Izzard notes in the video above, the English, within our cosy, post-imperialist, monolingual culture, often have trouble coping with the idea of two languages or more jostling about for space …
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Send GrrlScientist to Antarctica! Quark Expeditions is searching for an Official Blogger to join a voyage to Antarctica. Their goals, according to an email I received from their official spokesperson, Prisca, are to have their official …
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Recent Comments. Greg Laden on Two Boston Area Zoos to Close Due to State Budget Cuts; Jake the “MAN” on Rolex Designers Are Stupid and Don’t Know Roman Numerals; Troublesome Frog on Can Social Security Numbers Be Hacked? …
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… VLC Media Player hits Version 1.0 · Has the foundation under Microsoft suddenly shifted? Wildlife in Protected Areas Compared to Non-Protected Areas of Kenya · « More reading on the Neoatheisticaccomodationism schism. …
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I’ve been wrestling with how to respond to the imminent appointment of Francis Collins to the NIH, and it’s tough. The problem is that he has excellent qualifications for the position of chief paper-pusher and technician-wrangler, …
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Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future. by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum Basic Books 2009. In this book, Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum set out to alert us to a problem, and they gesture in the …
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There are two lies you will hear from anyone who is into the sport of angling. 1) “It was THIS BIG!” and 2) “Catching fish isn’t the point. It’s the experience of fishing that matters.” Largemouth_bass_mocking_variety.jpg …
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Since 2004, WisconsinView has made aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin available to the public for free over the web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery …
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There are intelligent true believers, deluded as they are, but there also a few of them out there who will simply take your breath away with statements of such pretentious stupidity that you wonder how they manage to tie their shoes in …
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