Its on! Students here at UMM got together and have organized their very own Midwest Science of Origins Conference, to be held in Morris on 30 March-1 April. As the big name speaker, theyve got Neil S...
It truly does, and someone has caught us out and published a stunning exposé that reveals the horrible, awful behavior that our goddess, Nature, endorses. You must read "God Hates Checkere...
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Have you ever walked around an 19th century (or earlier) graveyard? It gives you a depressing snapshot of the old reality: so many young women dead in childbirth, so many children reaped by diseases....
You will not escape the swarm. (via NatGeo) (Also on FtB) Read the comments on this post...
Theres a reason I promote atheism and skepticism coupled with feminism, and its not because Im trying to foist a feminist ideology on skepticism. Its because skepticism drives me to consider discrimi...
I was on Skeptically Speaking this week, weirdly and uncomfortably talking about the evolution of menstruation. I barrelled ahead anyway, even though Ive got a Y chromosome and am not a member of the...
Id been wondering about the credibility of David L. Abel, an Intelligent Design creationist who claims to work in the Department of ProtoBioCybernetics and ProtoBioSemiotics, Origin of Life Science F...
Next step: lasers mounted on squid mantles. You puny humans are so screwed. (Also on FtB) Read the comments on this post...
The editor of Life, Shu-Kun Lin, has published a rationalization for his shoddy journal. Life (ISSN 2075-1729, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/li fe/) is a new journal that deals with new and sometime dif...
That sad article on gyres as an explanation for everything has had more fallout: not only has it been removed from Science Dailys site, not only has Case Western retracted the press release, but one ...
The Indiana Senate has approved this bill: The governing body of a school corporation may offer instruction on various theories of the origin of life. The curriculum for the course must include theor...
Ive been naughty and neglecting to announce these things, so lets start correcting that: heres the 44th Carnival of Evolution. (Also on FtB) Read the comments on this post...
The Fordham Institute has released their annual evaluation of state science standards. They are very tough graders — Minnesota got a "C". Ack! Mom & Dad are going to be pissed, how ...
It must be tough running a charity. Youve got a cause you care deeply about, and youre constantly juggling the game of having to spend money (in administration, advertising, staff) to raise money (fo...
Aside from Mary, that is. (via NatGeo) (Also on FtB) Read the comments on this post...
Ah, the 19th century…when mad scientists were really mad, and not only that, they were popular at parties. In 1818, Dr Ure and Professor Jeffray obtained the freshly killed corpse of Matthew C...
You already know my feelings about that exploitive science publisher, Elsevier; Im not the only one, and theres been a long, long history of anger over their publishing model — and its not just...
Time is whipping by, I can tell — Darwin Day is next week! Im going to have to whip up a talk for this event real soon, I think: its Darwin on the Palouse, and Ill be talking at Washington Stat...
The words of the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu aleihi was-sallam) have been tested scientifically, and found hilarious. In work carried out under the direction of Dr. Jamaal Haamid, students at Qassim...
The miseducation committee of the Indiana legislature recently approved a bill to allow the teaching of creationism in the schools, and now the Indianapolis newspaper approves, with the usual tepid a...
The gang at Skepticon are running a poll to design the Worlds Most Innocuous Atheist Billboard, and theyve settled on the message — "Baby Animals Are Cute" — and theyve got some c...
Lots of people have been sending me this paper by Erik Andrulis, and most of you have done so with eyebrows raised, pointing out that its bizarre and unbelievable; some of you wrote asking whether it...
Indiana is preparing to promote creationism in their science classrooms. A legislative committee has advanced a bill that endorses creationism and "alternative theories" to the vote of the fu...
Were having a visit today from Shawn Lawrence Otto, a fellow who has been fighting against the un-American war on science on the web and in a book, Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in A...
Tremble in fear, and behold this terrifying homicidal vegetable! The larger denizens of Brazil may be unaware of the carnage beneath their feet, but trust me — the far more numerous inhabitants...
Even in pre-school. Think what fury there would be if this teacher couldnt spell, or had poor grammar, or couldnt read Goodnight Moon fluently. But not knowing how a fundamental property of the unive...
Mondays are my long, long days — this is the day I get to spend 3 hours talking to students in small groups about cancer (theyre young and invincible, so so far it hasnt been as depressing as I...
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