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Category Archives: Science & Space
Flying Spaghetti Monster Runs Amok!
Kansas Board of Education member Connie Morris comes face to face with his noodly appendage and was not touched. All Hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Life on Earth is 135' Long!
This link, stolen from Pharyngula, displays the evolutionary timeline on one webpage. If you printed it out, it would be 135′ long. Clicking to the right over and over again gives you a feeling on just how long 3.5 billion years is.
Research without Research
If you read my blog, you will see posts about Intelligent Design and its crazy way of making life very interesting. However, occasionally something comes along that is truly ticklish. Try this article out of The Panda’s Thumb on for size. It makes me wonder if the researcher, Brian Alter, didn’t do it on purpose.
UT Scientist Getting Hell from IDiots
The intelligent design movement has it’s moments, and this is one of them. A Scientist from the University of Texas, Eric Pianka, who spoke about a possible “crash” in human population due to many reasons, has been reported to the Department of Homeland Security and is receiving death threats and unfriendly looks. For better coverage …
Kids Picking Legs off Ants
The NY Times today had an article entitled Wingless Gliders May Reveal the Origins of Insect Flight. I usually peruse these types of articles just to find out what’s going on that is newsworthy. I think the author (Elizabeth Svoboda) had a lot of fun writing this. To summarize, Dr. Stephen Yanoviak of the University …
Lefties are more Dangerous!
In this month’s Scientific American, they have a short blurb at the front speaking about lateralization of animals, which in humans manifests as right or left handedness. Here’s the link. I have no idea how long it will work, so good luck. The studies that it was covering were trying to determine why animals developed …
It's the Tides!
Sunday, I was on my section of the Appalachian Trail, cleaning out waterbars and removing some blowdowns from the trail (Flat Stanley was helping out). Two very interesting things happened while I was out there.
Miss-covery Institute
Well! What exciting news out of Ohio! The state school board removed language from the curriculum requiring “critical analysis” of evolution. I won’t get into the details, as they are better covered at The Panda’s Thumb, but there was a quote in the NY Times that floored me. Here it is. “It’s an outrageous slap …
Challenger, STS 51-L Remembrance
January 26th, 2006 is the 20th anniversary of the Challenger Disaster. Seven astronauts lost their lives. Today, we remember them. My family and I had lived in Satellite Beach, Florida for nine years until the summer of 1985. We saw the first Space Shuttle launch, Voyager I and II, and everything in between. We moved …