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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Drudge Report Uses An Antisemitic Visual Trope in Depicting the Pope’s Visit to Israel
At around 11:30 this morning, I was blown away by what I saw at Matt Drudge’s website. Drudge made use of a classic antisemitic visual template—the sinister, overlarge, and shadowy Jew—as a way of supporting his “reporting” on the besieged Pope Benedict. … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, Auschwitz, Catholic, Catholicism, christian antisemitism, Christianity, drudgereport, fascism, pope benedict, the Holocaust
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Quote of the Day
In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote: “To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
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Tagged epistimology, Henry David Thoreau, knowledge, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, thoreau
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The Evolution of God: An Exciting New Book on Religion, Coming Out in the U.S. Next Month, Is Reviewed by Andrew Sullivan
The Evolution of God, by the once frequent New Republic contributor, Robert Wright, is due out next month, and Andrew Sullivan gave it an enthusiastic review for the Times of London. Money quote: From primitive animists to the legends of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Christianity, creationism, evolution, James Dobson, Jesus, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, the templeton foundation
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The New Bolsheviks?
Is nuclear armed Pakistan on the verge of collapsing to a band of revolutionary Islamic militants? The New York Times today reports on a “shaky” Pakistan being targeted by Al Qaeda: “They smell blood, and they are intoxicated by the … Continue reading
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Tagged al qaeda, bolshevik, bolshevism, Communism, Pakistan, sharks, terror, terrorism
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Creation v. Evolution Watch: Fossilized Transitional Ancestor of the Seal Discovered in Canada
A missing link between seals and land mammals. The animal is named “Puijila darwini”: The official Canadian Museum of Nature website exploring this new find is here.
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Tagged biology, creation, evolution, Genesis, life, ocean, paleontology, science, seals
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What’s the Percentage of Republican Senators and Congress Persons Who Are Women? Just 10%
So says Politico today: Women make up almost 51 percent of the U.S. population but less than 10 percent of the House and Senate GOP — a gender disconnect that could make the Republicans’ climb back to power even steeper … Continue reading
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Tagged conservative, dittohead, ERA, feminism, Hugh Hewitt, Republican, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, women, women's equality, women's rights
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Evolution v. Creation Watch: Protein-Sequence Data from the Duckbilled Dinosaur Supports the Dinosaurian Origin of Birds
Biologist Jerry Coyne notes this interesting piece of news at his blog today: In this week’s Science we find a paper by Schweitzer et al. (total of 16 authors!) that has a quite remarkable result. (See the one page summary … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, birds, creation, creationism, dinosaurs, evolution, Genesis, genetics, intelligent design, religion, science, young earth creationism
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David Hockney Sends His Friends Apple iPhone Flowers
Famed British artist David Hockney is 71 years old, and has started painting pictures with his iPhone. Hockney tells the Daily Mail: “‘I like to draw flowers by hand on the iPhone and send them out to friends so they get fresh … Continue reading
Giant Trilobites Found in Portugal!
No need to hide the kids. They’re fossilized. But so reports the science journal Geology: Large quarrying surfaces of roofing slate in the Arouca Geopark (northern Portugal), formed under oxygen-depleted conditions, have yielded a unique Ordovician fossil lagerstätte that reveals … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, cambrian explosion, cambrian period, geology, life, nature, portugal, science, trilobites
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Bad H1N1 (Swine Flu) News: Summer Heat May Not Stop It, and It’s Starting to Behave Like the 1918 Flu Pandemic
One billion people worldwide. According to New Scientist, that’s how many people could be infected by H1N1 between now and July. Despite a week of relative calm in the news regarding H1N1 (swine flu), New Scientist reports that there is new evidence suggesting that … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, epidemic, exercise, gym, H1N1, health, pandemic, running, science, swine flu, viruses, weight lifting
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Hung Like a Hobbit?
Above is an image of an Indonesian hobbit’s skeletal foot and tibia. Your tibia is your long shinbone just below your knee. According to a new paper in Nature, and reported on by the New York Times today, Indonesian hobbits had … Continue reading
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Tagged anatomy, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwin, evolution, hobbits, human evolution, indonesian hobbit, sex, sex myths
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Hobbit-Like Humans a Separate Species?
The BBC reports today on the Hobbit-sized “human” skeletons found in Indonesia. Two new science papers in the journal Nature support the theory that they belong to a separate species, perhaps branching from Homo erectuses living in South-East Asia a million … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwin, evolution, hobbits, nature, people, science
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An Example of Macroevolution
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Tagged biology, Charles Darwin, Darwin, evolution, Genesis, James Dobson, paleontology, science
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Is that TIT-taalik or Tiktaalik? Fish Teeth Became Human Breasts! Paleontologist Neil Shubin Talks to Stephen Colbert About the Curious Contingencies of Evolution
For Stephen Colbert’s discussion of Tiktaalik with Neil Shubin, see here.
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Tagged biology, breasts, evolution, fish, Genesis, neil shubin, science, tiktaalik, your inner fish
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