Daily Archives: May 7, 2009

Today’s Five Curious Links of Note

Futurist Ray Kurzweil is interviewed in New Scientist . . . more Media Matters tracks the far right’s response to Barack Obama’s use of Dijon mustard on a hamburger. Dijon mustard, it appears, is “elitist” and the new arugula . . . … Continue reading

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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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We Pray in Public (and Sometimes Torture in Private): Fox News Goes After Barack Obama for Not Praying or Torturing Enough

Barack Obama simply doesn’t pray or torture enough for the folks at FOX News. If Obama would just pray and torture more, we would have back the America we all know and love! On FOX News today is a truly noxious … Continue reading

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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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An Example of Macroevolution

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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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Time to Talk Pot? Arnold Schwarzenegger Says Yes

According to the Huffington Post, Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to talk pot: Schwarzenegger was asked at a press conference if it was finally time to legalize marijuana. “No, I think that it’s not time for that, but I think it’s … Continue reading

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M*A*S*H Actor, “Major Charles Winchester,” Comes Out as Gay

So according to Access Hollywood: David Ogden Stiers, the actor who is best known for playing Major Charles Winchester on TV’s “M*A*S*H,” has come out. “I am [gay],” the 66-year-old actor said in an interview with the blog Gossip-Boy.com. “Very … Continue reading

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