Rethinking it.
[Late evening update]
Inside the mind of a Neanderthal.
[Bumped]
Category Archives: Science And Society
Adult Stem Cells
…that seem to work in the brain. Faster, please.
The G-Spot
After sixty years of searching, researchers still can’t find it.
I say it’s too early to give up. I will steadfastly continue the search, on my own, if need be. Volunteer searchees can contact me via email, or in chat rooms.
The Cause Of The Bee Die Off
Has it been found? Hint: it’s not climate change.
A Predator That Ruled Before The Dinosaurs
This is interesting:
the find is important for two reasons: First, Pampaphoneus is the first Paleozoic terrestrial carnivore discovered in South America. Combining this find with earlier discoveries of plant-eaters from the same time frame will help paleontologists “picture a more complete ecosystem during the Permian period,” the statement said.
Second, the skull suggests that this South American species was a close relative to similar dinocephalians previously found in Russia and South Africa. That supports the idea that therapsids were able to disperse easily from one part of the Pangaea supercontinent to the other, during an age when most of Earth’s modern-day land masses were linked together.
Emphasis mine. South America’s a big place, and this is the first time they’ve seen this. It just shows how rare fossils are, and how ridiculous it is for the creationists to demand to see all “transitional species” (a notion that demonstrates nothing except the demander’s ignorance of evolution, because every species is a “transitional” species).
“Settled Science”
…is an oxymoronic phrase, and a myth. Anyone who uses it is simply demonstrating that they don’t understand science.
Losing Nemo
…to global warming. Something must be done.
The Hockey Stick
It’s all the fault of those “fossil-industry front groups,” of course.
The 5000 Climaquiddick Emails
Reading all of them:
So far, it’s been fascinating to get a look at the climate hoax from the inside. The data fudging, the demonization of doubters, the knee-jerk rejection of alternate hypotheses, the quest for funding, the travel to exotic locations, the pal review, the left-wing politics, the fear of debate, the swagger in the early days, then the panic as the skeptics closed in–it’s all there.
It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.
Paula Deen
You’ll be as shocked as I was to learn that she has Type 2 diabetes:
There’s no doubt that fans would be upset to learn that Deen had been keeping such a major disease, and a major consequence of heavy eating, from their knowledge. It would certainly cast an alarming pall over the reckless abandon with which she endorses delicacies like turducken. And it would lend support to rival Anthony Bourdain’s much-ballyhooed critique of Deen’s culinary style.
It’s worth noting, though, that in the past nine months, Deen has diversified her activities away from her old monomaniacal focus on fatty foods.
Nutritional ignorance. You don’t get diabetes from fatty foods, or the Inuit, who traditionally lived on whale blubber and seal fat, would all be diabetic. Well, actually they are now, but they never were until they started eating flour and sugar, which is the problem with Paula Deen’s cooking as well.