Darwin vs the New Scientist and the Fight for Evolution Education

The above cover of the New Scientist has been rightfully bashed by T. Ryan Gregory of Genomicron.
Fundamentally, Darwin was right about his two big ideas that really matter: common descent and natural selection. To say “Darwin was wrong”, even within the article’s context, is nonsense. The fact that it will undoubtedly be taken to refer [...]

Viking Metal Bands

Stumbling across this on Wikipedia made my day (our school mascot is the Viking).

Emergent Behavior Emerging Everywhere!

Chris Rollins has a great post on Emergent Behavior on Scientific Blogging.
He makes a great series of points hear about the relationship between emergent behavior and entropy, and how they can possibly coexist:
Emergent behavior, or the spontaneous creation of order, is present all around us. Insects are a good example because they are familiar to [...]

Is Your Skeleton Running?

From the designer Mark Weaver

(Hat tip: Morbid Anatomy)

Are Economists Clueless?

Will Wilkinson has been on a kick lately bashing economists (Macro-economists, to be clear).  I can’t say I blame him.  Macro-economics is far from a muture science, and is nearly devoid of empiricism.  But, these are the guys who end up in policy making positions, and who policy makers listen to when it comes to [...]

The Audacity of Soap: Obama to Clean Up the Country

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.  Let the Kitsch continue!

Barrack Obama Thong: Party Like it’s 2009

I’m all for a good party … and a good thong.  But, this takes it, from Scare Baby

Oh, but there’s more.  From the “Obama Mega Store” we’ve got the Obama Hunk Daily Planner!

How Long? Not Long! Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barrack Obama

Martin Luther King, Jr.  Speaking in Montgomery, Alabama on March 25, 1965.
How Long? Not long.
This could be said to be the most appropriately timed MLK day, leading us directly into the inauguration of our countries first African American President Barrack Obama.
Martin Luther King was right.  Not long.

President Obama and Abraham Lincoln: The Past and Future of America

Carson, as a part of his “teaching great students” series, wrote an article about Abraham Lincoln and the construction of him through history as mythic figure and as a real man. (Emphasis mine).
Abraham Lincoln was a transformative actor shaped by his destiny to will Rousseau’s’ notion of the human soul and to eradicate the concept [...]

Too Much Coffee Makes You Hallucinate … Cool!

A new study from Durham University showed that participants who drank 7 cups of coffee a day or more were more prone to hallucinations.   Sweet!  I wonder what happens when I drink 14 cups?
You know the old math joke:  what is a Mathematician?  A machine that turns coffee into theorems.  Maybe mathematicians actually think the [...]